Longtemps, je me suis levée de bonne heure

J’ai enfin compris ce matin pourquoi certaines personnes détestent le fait que nous soyons passés à l’heure avancée quelques semaines plus tôt: il faisait noir en maudit quand je me suis levée ce matin! J’ai pris la route avec quelques membres de l’équipe du film A vos marques… party! pour assister au junket et à la première du film à Québec ce soir. Si j’avais un meilleur sens des affaires, j’aurais tenté de vendre aux enchères ma place dans la minivan. Je connais bien des jeunes filles qui auraient payé cher pour passer 3 heures de route en compagnie de ces messieurs!

Le junket, qui se déroule au Château Frontenac, est sur le point de se terminer. Je vais tenter de prendre des photos pendant le reste de la journée; c’est donc sur Flickr que ça va se passer!

Stinky kid and drama queen

Being a screenwriter at a press junket or a movie premiere is like being the stinky kid in high school: nobody wants to sit with you at the cafeteria and nobody cares to talk to you (especially not journalists*).

I guess it’s very suited that my first movie junket experiences are for a film that takes place in high school… I should have listened to the much more experienced Chroniques Blondes who told me to simply skip these events. Live and learn. Oh well. Public torture and humiliation makes for great writing material anyway. ;-)

*Except for the Voir journalist. ;-)

Interactive movie poster

The publicity campaign for the movie I co-wrote is in full gear these days, as the movie opens on March 30th. If you live in Montreal, you’ve probably seen the posters in the various métro stations around town. If you pass by the McGill métro, check out this one-of-a-kind interactive poster. It’s a touch screen that shows video excerpts from the movie. I’m hoping to check it out tomorrow (Ed took the photo for me). If you’ve seen it and played with it, let me know what you thought of the concept. I don’t know of any other movie that has done anything like this in the métro, but then again, I don’t take the subway every day.

The soundtrack is being launched tonight (Tuesday), at 5pm on a tv show called Plus sur commande, with a live broadcast on Musique Plus.