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Love that anecdote :D I used to work at a film marketing agency, which involved going to private screenings of films before general release. On one film we we
by illwrks 5y ago
Love that anecdote :D
I used to work at a film marketing agency, which involved going to private screenings of films before general release.
On one film we were working on, a colleague and I attended a screening of a close-to-finished film. I was tasked by the agency with taking notes on anything of importance that might be usable from a marketing perspective. There were a crowd of others at the screening also, another agency and random people.
Throughout the film I was checking my watch (for timestamps) and taking notes.
Afterward when milling about in the lobby it turns out the director was sitting just behind me and he was getting more and more worried and nervous as I continued to check my watch and take notes...
It was only his second film, a rehash of an older classic one, and he thought I was one of the journalists who were also at the screening and would slate the film... I often get a smile thinking of the panic and dread that must have went though his head every time I checked my watch.
It was a good film though and went on to do well.