As I type this, Ray Flynn is editing our movie, “External Monologue” on a Mac here on the kitchen table.
We started early. Actually, I started excruciatingly early – 6:30 AM. Helaine woke up and I was too jazzed to go back to sleep. Three hours – as I’m now seeing, not enough sleep for me.
As hard as we tried to preplan, it became obvious much of this would be written today.
The members of our movie team started arriving around 8:20. At 8:50 neither our writer nor director had shown. No problem. They made it in the nick of time.
Our ingredients, the special things this movie had to have, arrived via email at 9:00 AM sharp.
CINEMASPORTS Remote Ingredients and Guidelines
Here are the ingredients for today’s event. No interpretation is wrong, so be creative.
1. An unexpected visitor
2. A tickle
3. Crumpled paper
Movies should be 3 minutes or less. (20 seconds allowed for credits, so movies should not exceed 3:20 min. total.)
Not much time. Still, we took well over an hour before we shot the first frame of video. Everyone threw ideas back and forth.
A concept that Chris Arnott and Hugh Mackay brought with them was our framework. The rest was molded to fit.
People brought medical instruments, lab coats, all sorts of things. We used none of them! That was OK.
On the other hand, a lineman for a local utility drove by in his bucket truck… and we got him to shoot a few seconds of ‘crane’ video. Not too shabby for an ad lib.
I’m not going to say much, because I expect to put the finished product here on the website tonight or tomorrow. Why spoil the fun.
The question is, will we be finished in time? At the moment we’re two and a half hours from the deadline to start uploading. I think we’re OK.
The accent is on the word think.
I can’t wait to see it!
So, where’s the beef?