Amazing

This weekend, I filmraced.

I've done it once before, and it was crazy then and it was crazy now. 24 hours to write, shoot, edit, and deliver (in person) a short film. My team consisted of some friends from work and a friend from college. I think we came out with a halfway decent film, given the time constraints. I'll post a link once we put it online.

I only slept an hour and a half during the 24 hour period, and our team took the term filmrace to heart when, 21 minutes before the deadline, we decided to sprint the 15 blocks to the drop-off location instead of taking a taxi. (It seemed logical at the time, but so did a lot of things... Sleep depravation will do that to you). We made it there with a minute or two to spare, sweating and dryheaving. Turning in the film was all that much sweeter, though.

Filmracing

A friend of mine from college and I are thinking about entering the Brooklyn Filmracing Competition next weekend. The concept is this: at 10 pm on Friday night, October 3rd, competitors get an e-mail with a prompt, one theme the film has to revolve around and one suprise element that has to be incorporated into the film (such as a prop or and action). The competitors then have 24 hours to come up with a concept and a script, shoot the film, edit the film, and output the film in order to reach the deadline of 10 pm on Saturday, October 4th.

This is a crazy task, since making a three and a half minute film usally takes days and days, if not weeks of planning. We got together on Thursday to see how much we could plan ahead of time and if it'll be feasible for us to pull something off. We started thinking about getting actors involved, what a good location would be (we would have to get permits ahead of time, making sure that the location could be used for any theme), what our schedule would be like the day of, possible concepts that we could incorporate any theme into, possible music/composition we could use, who and where we would edit the movie together. Also, neither of us owns a camera, which is sort of essential...