2 posts tagged “2009”

This past weekend I participated in my third 48 Hour Film Project. Got the film done and in on time. Every year there's something that goes haywire. The previous two it was making copies for submission that proved to be inexplicably difficult. This year it was chasing down release forms from cast and crew. We normally head to Portland on Saturday night for editing, but this time we stayed in Monmouth to take advantage of the MacPro and full FCP. I think that was right the choice, but am glad we gave ourselves plenty of time to get to the drop-off location.

We drew "drama" as our genre this year. Leaving aside that this seems more like a meta-category than a discrete "genre", it was still more fun and satisfactory to work with in this framework than last year's "historical fiction/period piece", which is, I imagine, very difficult for anyone but people with unique resources. Our creative process involved a lot of improvisation, which was fun, and produced a lot of naturalistic dialogue. I don't think this kind of approach is appropriate for all forms of film, but it's a cool way to work.

More to come, including the film.

With the school year done, I can turn my attention to film projects, starting with my documentary of comic book creators in Portland, Oregon. This also means that this blog will be sparked back to life. I will be posting more of my personal thoughts, frustrations, reflections on the documentary here, leaving the more "official" communications to the doc blog. There will also be other projects to write about as the summer continues.