Friday, August 26, 2011

Another Trailer? Where's the Movie!?

Here is the short version of the 'Finding Genesis' movie trailer. The longer version may be coming soon, hopefully followed by the film itself.

Sunday, August 7, 2011

Ten Points Deducted - 48 Hour Film Project

Here is our 48 Hour Film Project entry, 'Ten Points Deducted'. I can't say it won anything but it got a lot of laughs at Fleur Cinema during the festival and that's what's most important to me.

Monday, August 1, 2011

Wholesome. Nutty. Fruity. Team Trail Mix.

When my High School friend, Laura Fast, asked me if I was interested in starting a team for the Des Moines 48 Hour Film Project, I said "No I'm not a fucking psycho!" "Yes". And so, I began to help her put together a team of what turned out to be five people, together we were Team Trail Mix. Laura, Summer, Brent, Shawn, and myself kicked off  on Friday, July 29th, and the 48 hours began at 7pm. Now, 56 hours later, I just woke up from my well deserved nap. But let me back up...

Friday, as soon as we got our genre, required prop, character and line of dialogue, we jumped right into writing and spent that entire day working out the story.
Here are the requirements:
Genre: Coming of age.
Prop: Marshmallow(s).
Character: Kelly/Kelli McBride the teacher.
Line of dialogue: "Open the door."

We finished the script at midnight, narrowing the story down to a funny story about getting one's license being the first step to becoming a man. The next day was spent shooting from 9am to 6pm. I only got an hour of sleep the previous night so I was a bit groggy but as soon as we were out and about that went away. After shooting, I had to take that footage and narrow it down to 4-7 minutes, the hardest part about the entire weekend. I stayed up the next night to edit and it was done right on time the next day when we rushed it to the finish line. Made it! I'm not allowed to put online until after the judging and screening, so since you're so excited to see what we came up with, you'll just have to wait.

Next week I'm on the set of Shawn's film, 'Claddagh'.