A Bug's Life

60 Hour Film Challenge! A dozen people from my filmmaking group and elsewhere put this together. We were given a title, line of dialogue, and prop or action at 8pm Friday and had to upload a 2-5 min film by 8am Monday. And we did! No creative work allowed beforehand, just assembling cast, crew, locations, props; for three of the cast/crew this was their first time on a film shoot, and everyone brought good skills and ideas and enthusiasm. It was jolly hard work, and frustrating at times, but people seem keen to do it again.

Like Father Like Son from James Uren on Vimeo.

I learnt loads, and of course we're all applying hindsight with a thick trowel, and I'm having thinky thoughts about consensus-building creativity vs strong directorial vision.
Best kudos so far: my mum saying "Hey this is really good" instead of her usual "I didn't understand what it was about" but maybe that's because someone good did the editing :-)