Dear LoveFest: I Had The Time of My Life

[Zak Forsman]

hi everyone, I wanted to express my sincere gratitude to all the filmmakers who put a piece of themselves out there for the world to judge. you are all very brave and balls-to-the-wall FILMMAKERS in my book and I wanted to thank you, sincerely, because this was my first DVXfest and frankly, "I had the time of my life" (wink, wink... there's a joke coming!). anyway, i hope you did too.

with that, here's my hastily assembled tribute to all of you...

http://www.vimeo.com/790091


lovey, lovey, lovey,

Zak Forsman

[Gohanto]

Awesome. Simply awesome.

Thanks for this.

Wait, can I just vote for this as being the best film?

[Wild Imagination Films]

Uh, ...

[John LaBonney]

I was like WAIT A SECOND, where's the Double Date? Ha!

[mikkowilson]

BRILLIANT!

Wow.


- Mikko

[Michael Anthony Horrigan]

That was awesome! Nice editing to the music as well.

Well done, Zak!

Mike

[Mark Johnson]

Totally great Zak. You F*cking rock.

[MattinSTL]

In case nobody picks up on it... it would pay to really try and watch all the flicks... I just saw some amazing shots that I haven't seen yet... I guess I'll do the zip downloads and make a day of it.

I can't remember what fest it was a while back... one of the horror ones... maybe even zombie fest... and anyway... there was this one entry where people were surprised by zombies... they freaked out and started running, but then you saw that the zombies moved really slow (like zombies do) and then the girl was instantly calm and taking calls inside of her car and then just casually drives away... so the zombies all look down at their crappy shoes... then the next scene is the zombies running people down like athletes... and they all have on adidas or something.

I nearly wizzed up my trousers laughing so hard at it...

That short little flick got almost no attention at all... it fell victim to the "thread count conundrum" which is why I think that REALLY... we should do "anonymous fest"... or at least don't allow any promotion or threads about the flicks... I mean ZERO.

I'd love to see entries with titles only... so that people don't even know who did what until after the vote.

Anyway... that was a nice tribute... I just saw some clips that have forced me to commit to watching all the flicks. While we all SAY that we will... or intend to... I don't think more then about 10-20% of us actually watch more then 20% of the entries.

Hey I'm just sayin'... don't kill the messenger.

[Dustin R. Rogan]

pure awesomeness!!!

[dvpixl]

thanks Zak. Awesome.

I am not sure what I saw at the end though....

[artofsuntzu]

Friggin' brilliant.

It was cool to reminisce over each clip like that. Some of my favorite shorts were unexpected favorites for me given some of my first impressions with the thread or opening viewing minutes or whatever. Awesome tribute. Awesome fest.

[Kegan]

Yeah, awesome tribute video! Really good shots in there.

-Kegan

[Robbie Comeau]

Um did I GIVE you permission to use my film?

Totally kidding. This was awesome. It was so fun to watch, THANKS for putting THIS together

[Zak Forsman]

thanks Zak. Awesome.

I am not sure what I saw at the end though....

that is a little "gotcha!" for the double date crew. who probably thought they were left out until that point. you can tell by my new avatar, that im a big fan of that scene.

[Jason Ramsey]

Zak... I have new respect for you.

Thanks, that was great.

I hereby deem this the trailer for LoveFest.

Later,
Jason

[Robbie Comeau]

I sense a custom title change.

[Jason Ramsey]

All of the feelings, thoughts, emotions I have about this fest just came to the surface in two perfect minutes.

[Zak Forsman]

Robbie, I should only be so lucky.

[Robbie Comeau]

Zak, do you mind if I do this for the next fest?

If not cool. But this would be fun to do!

[Zak Forsman]

there's no stopping your meteoric rise, Robbie. Have at it!

[Jack Daniel Stanley]

haha great job Zak!
:beer:

[J.R. Hudson]

This was great Zak !

(Wiping tears)

[Blaine]

What a great tribute to LoveFest, Zak. Thanks for that. :thumbsup::thumbsup:


I can't remember what fest it was a while back... one of the horror ones... maybe even zombie fest... and anyway... there was this one entry where people were surprised by zombies... they freaked out and started running, but then you saw that the zombies moved really slow (like zombies do) and then the girl was instantly calm and taking calls inside of her car and then just casually drives away... so the zombies all look down at their crappy shoes... then the next scene is the zombies running people down like athletes... and they all have on adidas or something.

I nearly wizzed up my trousers laughing so hard at it...
That sounds like Keep Running by DougSpice in AdFest.

[Ted Arabian]

Zak, that was awesome! Really cool thing to do. There was once a guy who took all of the titles of the fest and made it into a letter. That was pretty cool. This, however, ROCKED!

Awesome tribute!

[stephen_nugent]

which is this one? looks well lit.
http://www.dvxuser6.com/uploaded/23330/1203271124.jpg

[Jason Ramsey]

I guess you'll just have to watch all of them until you find out which one that is :)

Later,
Jason

[Robbie Comeau]

Winter Lilacs

[stephen_nugent]

haha.. damn it, thought i could take advantage of the moment..

EDIT: cheers Robbie!

[Jason Ramsey]

Winter Lilacs

doh!

[Michael Anthony Horrigan]

Anyway... that was a nice tribute... I just saw some clips that have forced me to commit to watching all the flicks. While we all SAY that we will... or intend to... I don't think more then about 10-20% of us actually watch more then 20% of the entries.

Hey I'm just sayin'... don't kill the messenger.

If this IS the case and these same people vote.... then it is very sad indeed.

[bosindy]

Zak, very creative man, thanks for putting this together. And there is really some nice work in this fest.

[William_Robinette]

Zak, so awesome!

Love the avatar as well.

[Gohanto]

That short little flick got almost no attention at all... it fell victim to the "thread count conundrum" which is why I think that REALLY... we should do "anonymous fest"... or at least don't allow any promotion or threads about the flicks... I mean ZERO.

I'd love to see entries with titles only... so that people don't even know who did what until after the vote.

Anyway... that was a nice tribute... I just saw some clips that have forced me to commit to watching all the flicks. While we all SAY that we will... or intend to... I don't think more then about 10-20% of us actually watch more then 20% of the entries.


I agree with this idea. Certainly there are downsides (how many people here simply wouldn't have even finished their film had they not told people about it?) but it would make reviews more helpful I think as you'd watch every film with the same expectations.

[dvpixl]

that is a little "gotcha!" for the double date crew. who probably thought they were left out until that point. you can tell by my new avatar, that im a big fan of that scene.


right. I just realized... after I saw it.

[Kevin Lee]

Hehe Zac. I just watched this flick, very nice touch.

[Bernie Hipos]

zak you're the man! excellent job!:thumbsup:

[Zak Forsman]

glad this is such a hit...

[Cliff Wildman]

very nice choice for the closer!

i liked your entry more... barely :Drogar-BigGrin(DBG)

[Arrik]

This would have been a nice way to bring love fest to an end next week. Premature release! Nah, j/k I thought it was a great! Every fest should definitely have one of these.

[Maximus]

Zak, great job!

[mentatDUKE]

Awesome. Thanks for this. Haha.

[REHov520]

Haha. Thanks for including my quote in your banner. That's quite a compilation you got there.

[Charlie Anderson]

Nice :) did you include all the films or just a majority of them? (I didn't really count and I'm lazy)

[Zim]

Great job Zak

[Zak Forsman]

Nice :) did you include all the films or just a majority of them? (I didn't really count and I'm lazy)

one shot from each. pretty much A to Z.

[Charlie Anderson]

one shot from each. pretty much A to Z.
Ah ok I jsut went through it and thought I saw some films I watched that weren't in it *coughminecough* :)

[Zak Forsman]

....fixing....

[Zak Forsman]

...fixed. uploading...

[Charlie Anderson]

Hahaha Zak that's great :D

[Zak Forsman]

...uploaded. commence viewing.

[Rodney V. Smith]

totally awesome. I just finished watching the last of the shorts and it was cool to see this up.

[wartez]

excellent! this video and fest rock!

[gabrielflorit]

this rocks! what a great example of the coolness that is dvxuser.

[Brian Parker]

Nice! I purposely waited until after I'd seen all of the films. Thanks man.

[Zak Forsman]

uploaded the video to vimeo and updated the link in the first post.