Can't Sleep
Tonight I watched 24, as usual. I like to start watching it 30 mins after it has started so I can fast forward through the commercials. Afterwards I started getting sleepy but it was still too early. I watched Seinfeld and then decided to jump on Twitter. Twitter led me to check my email as I expect a contract from an indie musician for a song I’d like to use in The Broken Hearts Club. Email led me to Facebook, where I saw a notice about the film festival site, Bside, as part of the promotion campaign about the Hollywood Black Film Festival.
I was familiar with Bside because I spent the better part of today resizing and uploading video and pictures for my film. I jump over to the site, search for my official film link and I find it.
WTF?
There’s a trailer uploaded that’s from YouTube — a trailer I never uploaded nor programmed. This was one of the first and most raw trailers I ever created. The sound sucks and it was resized too small. Additionally, the “official film site” link points to my old site. A site whose address I rarely use because I’m phasing it out.
I was mortified. Here is another presence for my film and its world premiere and the information I painstakingly put together was wrong. The sound on the trailer is horrible. I’m still baffled how someone decided to arbitrarily point to a YouTube trailer without consulting me.
I promptly deleted the trailer from YouTube, along with other versions of the trailer except the main one. At least is someone decides to link to YouTube again they’ll have the right trailer. That is, unless someone links to the trailer for the short film.
Arrgh! Thank God I couldn’t sleep. I sent a corrective email to Bside at 11:15 PM
http://hollywoodblackff.bside.com/2009/films/thebrokenheartsclub_hollywoodblackff2009
Everything happens for a reason my friend. Even lack of sleep.