Wow! It’s amazing what can happen in 48 hours. We (Kelby Cross High A/V Club) had a helluva good time over the weekend putting a film together for the 48 Hour Film contest that made its way to the Tampa/St. Pete area this past weekend. We hung out together at the office last Friday night while trying to squeeze together the contest’s essential elements (Genre: Thriller, Character: Bob Percival, Prop: a hairdryer, and line of dialog: “How could you do this to me?” Friday night (July 18, 2008), I had the opportunity to work with some of our most-elite troops at Kelby Media Group. While Corey Barker (my best bud, Photoshop User columnist, and Education and Curriculum developer at Kelby Media Group) and Jason “Scriv” Scrivner (the Brains operating behind the award-winning podcast PhotoshopUserTV, Co-Director of our project, and I believe our first video dude…back when we were KW Media Group) were in the air flying back from a couple days of training in San Jose, CA. Meanwhile, a bunch of use were kickin’ around ideas in the conference room at our main building up until around 2 am Saturday morning–the fellas would finally land safely in Tampa and return to us safely come Saturday morning; however, Scriv’s iPod touch and noise-canceling headphones would not (sorry for your loss man). In the conference room was Adam “Head Queso” Rohrmann, Stephen “Cougar Bait” Bell, Bill “The Newbie” Duffin, Erik “The Big Kahuna” Kuna, Juan “The Magic” Alfonso, and Paul “The I.T. Guy” Wilder.
Man, you wanna talk about the most creative, fun, insightful, patient, brilliant, and wild bunch in town? It was a total blast getting in writing-room-lock-down mode with them. After the creative juices got flowing–around 1 am, four hours after getting the details of the short movie–we had Paul Wilder in position to be the mysteriously creepy Hannibil Lecter-like character who had a taste for livers (he wrote his grotesque recipes for cooking human parts in a Moleskine notebook with lemon juice and sent them overseas, where his international freak-friend would use a hairdryer to decode them). It seemed we were going in circles for the most part and I pushed for a break so we could sleep on it and consider the development of the characters.
The next morning, I had an Bob’s whole background in mind (or so I thought lol)–he’s a haunted veteran and we’ll push the audience into thinking he’s developed a taste for killing ’cause that’s clique and what one might expect, but actually he’s simply developed a taste for Arabic foods. Jennifer (wifey) and I arrived a tad late and by the time we got there, the script changed completely. After some sleep, the directors figured it wouldn’t be the best idea to have this crazed-and-somewhat-leaky-trousered-perverted character running around with our company name stamped on it…it’s just not who we are (well, it’s not who MOST of us are lol). All of us agreed that we should keep it under control.
Scriv explained the new plan, which in essence, is the one that’s sitting on the DVD in the judge’s office. I guess I could sit here writing all night about this adventure, but we’ve got to save most of it so there’s something to see this Wednesday, July 23 at Channelside in Tampa (: I saw the completed project today and it’s a freakin’ riot! Everyone contributed at least a sentence to the main script. Plus, we have some great shots we need to get off the D3 and post a slide show or something.
Oh, and I wanted to give a shout out to Erik B. for leaving me some comments. Thanks for checking back here and giving me a push to start posting here again, man! He was going to design this ’site for me, but I figured it would be great for my wife and I to try and learn how to do it.
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