Time for some speed writing!
SO excited. Tonight I’m participating in the 48 Hour Film Project as the screenwriter for Tohubohu Productions, the film production company helmed by Bill Coughlan. I’ll also be working with Pam Coughlan, aka Mother Reader.
Here’s the deal: “The 48 Hour Film Project is a wild and sleepless weekend in which you and a team make a movie—write, shoot, edit and score it—in just 48 hours. On Friday night, you get a character, a prop, a line of dialogue and a genre, all to include in your movie. 48 hours later, the movie must be complete. Then it will show at a local theater, usually in the next week.”
Doesn’t that sound like fun? Or like madness incarnate? But it’s like those speed creativity shows I love watching–Top Chef, Project Runway, etc. I’m so excited to be part of it, even though right now I’m a little bit twitchy wondering whether we’re going to end up with Western, Sci-Fi, Buddy Film, or whatnot.
Despite what I said about Twitter yesterday, that’s actually going to be the perfect forum for updates on the team’s progress. You can follow Bill’s tweets and/or mine, which should provide an interesting compare-and-contrast. (Bill’s: “Where the hell is Brande’s screenplay??? Tick tock!!” Mine: “Aarg! I am an artiste! If Bill calls me one more time to ask whether I’m done yet, I’m writing the whole thing in mime!”) And so on. Should be fun.
Anyway, wish us luck!!
So glad to have you with us. This is going to rock. I had two – not one, but two – dreams about 48 Hour Film Project last night. In one we were writing a musical but the actors were mad because we were writing it as we were filming and they wanted to know the next scene. In the other dream I channeled an idea that you and Bill had and turned it into a pretty good short movie. Or at least in my dream.
Good luck!!!
This sounds too, too fun!!! I would suggest, if you have time before you start, that chocolate zucchini bread is an awesome creativity booster.
It always comes back to the bread…
Elizabeth, that’s a great idea! Yum, just the thought of it!
Patrick, thanks, and yes, it does always come back to the bread. That bread rawks it hard.
Mother Reader, I’ve already had fifteen different ideas since then, most of them involving dolphins. That won’t be a problem for you guys to get, will it?
Getting closer to “go” time. I have to second Pam’s sentiments that we’re psyched to have you on board! There are a lot of genres I’m nervous about (mostly Musical), but I think we can take a pretty good stab at any of them!
At the very least, it’ll be fun. No, wait, that’s not the right word… it’ll be… excruciating. Yeah, that’s it.
Bill, hope you saw my note above re dolphins. I’ve even figured out how to work them into a musical if that’s what we end up with. It’ll be awesome! So please start making arrangements for that now.
Oh, I’m all for the dolphins. The big question is whether or not it’ll be wet enough for them outside. I figure it’s about 50-50 right now.
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