...And We're Done!!

Another 48-hour film competition under our belts!!!

Friday night we met for dinner and then headed to the meeting spot in downtown Seattle. It was kind of interesting how they did this one. There were about 15 teams and they drew, 1 character (P. Flowers: A Politician), 1 line of dialog ("More like 28, right guys?"), and 1 prop (pocket change) that ALL the teams had to use. Then each team drew a genre. I don't know what every team got, but we got drama and the team next to us got horror.

Other possible genres included: comedy, action/adventure, thriller, mockumentary, propaganda, musical, western and sci-fi. Oh yeah...the time constraint is that the finished film has to be at least 3 minutes but no longer than 6 minutes. It will be interesting to see if anyone got sci-fi or musical....I think those 2 would be really really hard to do in 48-hours.

After the drawing was over we took over the Il Forniao seating area at Pacific Place on 6th and Pine. We banged out our story in about 3 1/2 hours and recruited one of the security guard to appear in our film, (we got his number and called him Saturday morning and told him where to be and he actually showed up!!) he turned out to be fantastic. He played a double agent in charge of protecting a Senator (Peggy Flowers) and her family, but also works for a group of assasins that are targeting the Senator. Through the course of the story he gets found out and is killed by one of the assasins he is working for. He died beautifully!!!

Probably the most amazing thing that happened was that our lead actress knew someone who owns a house in the Finn Hill area of Kirkland and got permission for us to use the house as the location for the Senators house. HOLY CRAP...this house was amazing...on a bluff overlooking Lake Washington with views of downtown Bellevue, Seattle and Mt. Rainier. The inside was just as amazing as the outside...marble floor and marble columns in the foyer that lead to a sunken 2-story living room with floor to ceiling windows framing that AMAZING view. We estimated that the house had to be worth at least $3.5 - $4 million.

It was fun but really exhausting...I worked all day Friday and then went right to Seattle...didn't get home until about 11pm. Then was up at 6:30am and at our first location by 8am we shot at 3 locations, 2 in Bellevue and the Finn Hill house mentioned above. I got home about 9pm. Luckily, the last location was at the house of our team leader where all the editting equipment is so the editors were able to start editting while we finished up shooting the last couple of scenes.

We are thinking the films will be viewed and the winners announced June 3rd. I'll surely post results here!