Extended Reading

I would have to say that after reading the article that both articles have the same premise about how festivals need a since of community.  After reading this I began to think that we really need to improve our community amongst UNCW.  I feel that if we get more campus evolvement than we will gain more support in the wilmington community.  I feel that if we get and involve the digital arts department (animated films and shorts) and maybe involve them in contest to create the new poster contest for the festival or to create shorts for the festivals and the winners will be shown at the festival.  I also feel we should involve Flicker to get them involved with the festival.  They account for a lot of Pre Film Majors and other Film majors.  We could get volunteers for the day of the festival and allow them to get a badge and shirt for their hard work and admission to the after party.  We could involve the Photo Club to maybe take pictures for the festival and give us a copy of all the photos they take.  They could use the photos for their portfolio's and we could use them for Facebook and online purposes for the next festival.  We could also have a photo contest like we do the 1 hour 1 take video.  We could also have use the members of flicker for the 1 hour 1 take video race.  I feel that by reaching out to these few organizations we will more than double our campus community involvement.  By doing this we will also spread the word of the festival out further and into wilmington by word of mouth.

Also during my festival research I feel that we are more advanced than other small festivals.  I feel that we have the leg up on smaller film festivals in the area, but we are rather small in regards to the large festivals such as Cucalorus and Sundance.  I feel that if we play our cards right for the next few festivals we could begin to rival Humboldt.  I think we should in some way embrace our differences from other festivals and make them our strong points.  These are just a few of my random thoughts but I feel alot more to come.  Goodnight blog world.