My prediction? Well, pain, obviously.

We are so going to lose tomorrow.

(For those of you who don't remember, I'm talking about how our movie is going to lose campusmoviefest.)

There are two major reasons why we are doomed. In reverse order:

2. We didn't use any stupid effects.

One of the judging criteria is actually how well you use iMovie's special effects features, which are, by the way, awful. Last year's winner from Emory was a "parody" of The Ring (in quotes because it wasn't at all "funny") that extensively used iMovie's revolutionary ability to speed up motion. Second place was a movie so boring that I only saw the first 45 seconds, but in that amount of time they managed to work in sepia tone.

And our movie? Well, we played around with lighting a little, but nothing anyone would notice. (There is that school of thought that editing shouldn't draw attention to itself.) In other words, as people who have made movies before, we edited it well instead of using all of iMovie's bells and whistles, and for that we will surely suffer.

1. Corporate sponsorship.

Each year, this contest has a new "theme." Submitted films are asked to conform to the theme, no matter how loosely. Our team, hilariously, was told the wrong theme. Even when we found out the right one, though, we had no idea how to work it in. The theme is "Good comes around." We had already decided on the cat thing, in which there is no good, either coming or going. We decided to ignore the theme.

Come to find out that Delta, the festival's major sponsor, has a new slogan, "Good goes around," which, well, I have no idea what it means. But that's beyond the point -- this can't possibly be a coincidence. In other words, we should have done a movie about the convenience and affordability of air travel -- or at least something that a company can use to show off what great things it's funding. Robert, you were right about one thing: my Hitler & Stalin! idea would not have worked out. But the cat idea is definitely no better.

In short, tomorrow's winner will:
* be effects-heavy, with sped-up motion, over-use of the "gong" sound effect, and star wipe.
* be entirely toothless.
* suck.
* not be our movie.