My pants is tight!

This past week was pretty exciting— on Tuesday, we found out whether our 2 ads, “Man Date” and “Atomic Spice,” made it to the Top 5 of the Doritos Guru challenge, and on Friday, we found out how our short film “Getting Ahead in Life” did at the Arts Connect Quick Flick screening.

Tuesday — Doritos Top 5
Tuesday was pretty nerve-wracking. I’d stayed up pretty late the night before, so I was already a bit out of it when it came time to present the Top 5 of the Doritos Guru commercial contest. The website claimed that the winners would be posted on the homepage by 5pm EST (2pm PST), so you can bet that from 1:55pm-2:00pm, I was hitting that refresh button every other second.

The results came in about a half-hour late, but it didn’t matter, as Brad had informed me that we didn’t make it (they’d uploaded the Top 5 on their Youtube account before changing the homepage, which Brad saw). Worse, we didn’t even crack the Top 20 :( Oh well, the world just wasn’t ready for Joel yet.

Friday — 48-Hour Challenge
Friday was a lot calmer than Tuesday. Early in the afternoon, I met up with Ross and bagged a couple of his sweet new shirts, in Party Purple and White.

Get yours at: penpaperapparel.com

Eddy and I met up and headed to Hollywood North, a film supply store that sells a bunch of film-related odds-and-ends. Eddy picked up a clapboard, which is pretty awesome (I couldn’t stop toying around with it). We trekked back to the school and hung out until 5ish, when Brad and Kirsten picked us up to head to Port Moody for the screening.

All the entries were shown at the Inlet Theatre, on a full-sized theatre screen. The place was sold out, which was nice to see. The films were a LOT better than I’d expected, with two in particular standing out— one was from Jason, a former SIAT student, who made a film about a hitchhiker, and another about a repairman who ignores a group of hot chicks to fix some dude’s sink (or something). Our film looked very soft/blurry (in some scenes) when shown on a large screen— made me cringe.

After the screenings, there was a 20 minute recess, where we ate cheese, crackers, vegetables, and beer. They handed out third and second place (I totally forgot who won those, as I was pretty nervous and buzzed at this point), and then…

Word up, we got first place! We won that sweet trophy and $500, which, instead of splitting 5-ways, we used on…

Celebratory steaks!

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