Well, There's Always Next Year...

I haven't mentioned this before, which is ironic since I got involved solely because I thought it would make for a good blog entry, but I spent a bunch of time this past school year working on the infamous CTV Soap Opera, The Gates. The first episode was pretty terrible, even with my glorious acting as the sleazy frat boy.

We submitted a shortened version of the second episode to the SoapU contest that SoapNet (the Soap Opera channel owned by ABC) was running. I can tell you objectively that it was better than the first, because we made it to the finals in the contest. We found ourselves shooting a five minute promo for a new show about celebrities and pop culture called The Insiders. I got on board again, mainly to do music, but ended up doing a bit of acting and some oscar-winning boom mic holding.

Anyway, turns out we didn't win, but I still think it's pretty damn impressive. I wrote most of the music without even seeing the scenes I was writing for (or with less than a day left before the final copy was due) so I think that turned out alright and my acting was, well, I'll let you judge for yourself. You can see our promo here or you can watch the goofy 2 minute documentary they made about us. Also take a look at the other entries if you've got some time; I actually think the one that came out on top was really well done.