Sunday, October 31, 2010

Night: Weekend Shoot

Night is one step closer to becoming a reality. This past weekend, the majority of the film was shot. The weekend was filled with stress and mishaps, but with the help of some good friends, the weekend went rather smoothly.

The journey began Friday afternoon when we packed the car with two bolex's, a tripod, wheelchair, light kit, 4 film majors, and various unmentionables. After stretching a 1 hour and 20 minute car ride into 2 hours and 30 minutes, we finally ended up in Danbury, CT. 

We began shooting around 10:30 and had the first scene shot in about an hour. We then packed up the car again and headed to the second location: the sidewalk in front of the emergency room. We unloaded the bolex and the wheelchair and got ready to set up our shot when things began to get interesting. The camera that had more than half a roll left in it would not wind. We ended up placing the camera in the car and loading the second one. 
Once we finally were ready to shoot the scene, the security guard came out and told us we had to leave. A few college kids with a film camera and a wheelchair were scaring the employees as they walked out at one in the morning... 



Tuesday, October 5, 2010

48 hours of Drag

This past weekend I participated in Hofstra Film Club's 48 hour film contest. In this contest, film club members show up and are assigned to groups, usually with people that you are unfamiliar with. Each group is then given a genre, character, name and line of dialogue. All three of these pieces must be used in the film that each group has only 48 hours to make. My group received the following:


Genre: Mocumentary
Character: Queen LaQueefa
Line of Dialogue: "Oh god, oh man, oh god, oh man, oh god, oh man, oh god, oh man, OH GOD!"


With the given material my group set off to create a film. This is what we ended up with. Enjoy!




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