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What I Did At The Weekend

posted by [personal profile] bugshaw at 12:00am on 06/10/2015
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 :-)
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posted by [identity profile] crazyscot.livejournal.com at 11:16pm on 05/10/2015
Nice!
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posted by [identity profile] vicarage.livejournal.com at 06:24am on 06/10/2015
I enjoyed that.
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posted by [identity profile] davidwake.livejournal.com at 06:32am on 06/10/2015
Not bad at all.
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posted by [identity profile] bibliogirl.livejournal.com at 09:28am on 06/10/2015
That's excellent! Well done.
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posted by [identity profile] sphyg.livejournal.com at 11:27am on 06/10/2015
Like!
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posted by [identity profile] techiebabe.livejournal.com at 12:13pm on 06/10/2015
Wow, I love it! The only bit my brain got stuck on is when the cops arrived, the men neither tried to run, nor blamed each other (a swing and a "you pillock, you've ruined it") but just froze. In my nighbourhood, the drugs get tossed into a garden while the people flee into other gardens - or try to.

It was an interesting twist that the younger man was her brother not her partner; from the accents I assumed she'd been trafficked and was stuck in the household (again, based on a real household in my neighbourhood). That the black eye was from not wanting to be passed around several men. So, how come she was his sister, with a different accent?

But I thought the camerawork was good, and sound effects crisp and not distracting. Great job! I really liked it and I'm impressed by the standard.
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posted by [identity profile] techiebabe.livejournal.com at 12:13pm on 06/10/2015
Wow, I love it! The only bit my brain got stuck on is when the cops arrived, the men neither tried to run, nor blamed each other (a swing and a "you pillock, you've ruined it") but just froze. In my nighbourhood, the drugs get tossed into a garden while the people flee into other gardens - or try to.

It was an interesting twist that the younger man was her brother not her partner; from the accents I assumed she'd been trafficked and was stuck in the household (again, based on a real household in my neighbourhood). That the black eye was from not wanting to be passed around several men. So, how come she was his sister, with a different accent?

But I thought the camerawork was good, and sound effects crisp and not distracting. Great job! I really liked it and I'm impressed by the standard.
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posted by [personal profile] liv at 08:10pm on 06/10/2015
This is really cool! Wow, a film in a weekend, and with relatively inexperienced people too, that's very impressive.

Slightly related to films, I have this memory of someone observing that it's possible to persuade one of the local cinemas to screen a particular film if you can guarantee them an audience of a certain size? Not a private screening, a public one but of a film they wouldn't otherwise show. Was it you who talked about this option and if so, can you remind me which cinema it was and how this works?
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posted by [identity profile] bugshaw.livejournal.com at 06:29am on 07/10/2015
Thanks! It's quite a buzz, to achieve something like that, for everyone.

Our Screen? It operates at a few cinemas including the Picturehouse in Cambridge, it seems a very fine sort of project. I've not yet made it to any of their screenings. https://www.ourscreen.com/ should give you all the details.
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posted by [identity profile] major-clanger.livejournal.com at 09:01pm on 06/10/2015
That was good - also, of course, for me, rather weird!
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posted by [identity profile] bugshaw.livejournal.com at 06:29am on 07/10/2015
Yeah, as soon as the barrister moved out, I filled the house with drug dealers!
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posted by [identity profile] major-clanger.livejournal.com at 09:09pm on 07/10/2015
Bloody gentrification!
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posted by [identity profile] dorispossum.livejournal.com at 05:56pm on 07/10/2015
Very impressive to put that together in a weekend. Kudos!
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posted by [identity profile] woolymonkey.livejournal.com at 05:24pm on 09/10/2015
Wow. That's good :)

But your house is not your house and that confuses me.
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posted by [identity profile] ceb.livejournal.com at 04:42pm on 15/10/2015
Impressive!
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