--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Rick Archer" <r...@...> wrote: > > Fairfield 1st Fridays Art Walk 5th Annual Film Expo - > February 6th & 7th, 2009 > > Plan to attend the Fairfield 1st Fridays Art Walk 5th Annual > Film Expo February 6th & 7th. Bring your family and friends > and join the film-loving crowds at this weekendâs festivities. > The Fairfield Public Library will be hosting the Young People's > Film Project workshop for 5th - 8th graders where kids can create > a short 3-5 minute film and put it on YouTube! Be a Hollywood > hotshot and create your own 5-10 minute short film to enter in > the do-it-yourself Art Walk Short Film Contest. Or learn about > the wonderful world of creating high-end film animation. Discover > your hidden talent at this year's 5th Annual Film Expo!
This sounds like fun, Rick, and if I were in the area I´d definitely go. But it was the wording of the blurb and the invitation to ¨discover your hidden talent¨ and ¨be a Hollywood hotshot¨ that reminded me of something I wanted to post to FFL. In the latest issue of one of my French film magazines is a full-page ad for an XBOX game called ¨You´re in the Movies.¨ It shows an extremely cheezy (and, let´s face it, no one can be as cheezy as him) Burt Reynolds smiling and saying, ¨You´re in the Movies, c´est le meilleur jeu video sur le cinema que j´aie jamais vu.¨ ( YITM is the best video game on movies that I´ve ever seen. ) The quote is attributed to ¨Burt Reynolds, Acteur Charis- matique,¨ which requires no translation. :-) It´s very funny. At the bottom of the ad it says, ¨Camera included. Burt Reynolds sold separately.¨ Anyway, I looked it up, and it really does come with a video camera, and you really do shoot footage of yourself and your friends, and then put them in the canned ¨movies¨ that come with the game. Yeah, it´s cheezy, but it also sounds like a shitload of fun to me. If I had an XBOX, I´d buy one. Check out the YouTube link below, and you´ll see why I´m describing Burt´s presentation as ¨cheezy.¨ It´s intentionally cheezy. http://youtube.com/watch?v=3gSxrQvlZVs http://www.xbox.com/en-US/games/y/yitm/ http://reviews.teamxbox.com/xbox-360/1626/Youre-in-the-Movies/p1/
