Hot news!
The short film I appeared in has been selected as one of the top 20 of the festival and will be given a public screening with the other entries on Feb. 28. Details are on the festival website, and if you can find me at the screening I’ll be available to sign autographs, but only on the boobs of hot women. So bring your mom.
I’m actually still not sure what the title of the short film is. I jokingly called it Realty Bites, which the producer and director took a frightening liking to. Anyway, more details to follow as I get them.
Excelsior!
I just finished shooting a short film yesterday for Blue Harvest Productions as a part of a film festival project. The premise of the festival is that they give all the participants a genre or concept, and the crews are given 48 hours to write, shoot, edit, and deliver a short film to be judged at a screening.
I’m not sure how much I’m at liberty to tell you about the film itself. I wasn’t given any specific instructions on what not to speak about, but this particular film festival is a competition so I’ll try to keep good faith and stay mum about what it’s about until after the screening. I’m also not sure when I’ll get a copy of the film or how free I’ll be to exhibit it online, but I’ll be sure to ask when I get my copy.
The shoot itself was a barely-controlled chaos, because Sarah and I had a dinner theater show across town at 5, and we only had about 8 hours to film. They had plenty of shots to get after we left, but I was in the bulk of the scenes. Even for a short film that’s not a lot of time, and the time constraints were exacerbated by the fact that almost every shot had to be rather meticulously lit and arranged for FX and continuity. I was rather surprised by the ability of the crew, though. The gaffer (guy responsible for electrics and lighting) really knew what he was doing. I mean okay, he nearly set me on fire, but I’m sure he would have put me right out. He was wearing flame retardant gloves.
But seriously, classy group. I got a look at some stuff they were editing and everything looked good. Makeup, FX, all that stuff was looking fine. As for me, I’m pretty confident that I didn’t let anybody down. I’d never acted on-camera before, and it’s much different than the stage work I’m used to. Overall I had a lot of fun. It gave me a lot of perspective on the amount of work that goes into getting things filmed (it’s a wonder big-budget films get anything done at all) and how much work it is when you’re committed to a weeks or months-long shoot.
I’ll see what I can do to share this monumental event with the rest of you when it’s all done. If there’s a screening open to the public I’ll let you know the details. I do know, however, that there are at least sixty entries and only twenty will be selected for screening. There may not be a screening for mine.
