Hey everyone,

So I’m still a little tired from last night as I got a chance to head out to Manhattan to the Producers Club Theater to screen a new version of the trailer for Sounds of the Summer for a whole new audience. It has been a while since I have shown my work to a group of people who 98% of those in attendance I didn’t know or had even shaken hands with, but the support was much appreciated.

After every trailer, the audience applauded one another’s work, which was warming and personally surprising as I hadn’t experienced something like that in the past. I did arrive with several physical copies and left them near the door for those to take on their way back home and just said “being able to know that you will be willing to give my work a chance is all the support I need.”

Looking back, Sounds of the Summer did teach me a lot. It taught me how to better manage my time when working on a project like this, how to better pace certain information when editing something, learning how to submit to film festivals (yes, I did submit it to a couple film festivals), and how to continue to want to build a audience for your work. Sounds of the Summer came out in late May of this year, and I reawakened my interest to get this project a audience in December.

A guy at the show last night told me “the person that will go the hardest for your work is yourself. Show as many people how hard you worked on something. Even if that work is old to you, it’s new to many others.”

If your reading this and we talked and you picked a copy, thank you. Seriously, thank you.

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Reflecting On Sounds of the Summer