I recently participated in Instant Films 48 hour film festival, and the film I wrote won best writer, best director, and best picture. Here's how it works.
Friday night I randomly picked an adjective and a noun and a cast breakdown. I got "secret", "gift", and two women and one man. I wrote a film that night and turned it in Saturday morning. Directors picked the scripts and a cast at random and went off to shoot films which they brought in for a screening Sunday night.
Here's the result.
7 comments:
Oh my God, I’m just blown away! I have to admit, like Chandler and JSP, no matter how many times I’m told what you do for a living I just can’t remember for some damn reason. That’s just terrific, Julie! I’m quite humbled by the fact that this blog as so many talented people. I like that there’s a blooper during the closing credits.
What is it that you do for a living?
D’oh!
Awesome Julie! Where is the credit for screenplay? Man, you writers get hosed!
Seriously, that was really fun. I can't believe you could do that so quickly.
Congratulations Julie! Your film is great! I love the tone. I checked out the site a bit, and watched a few other films. What a great concept! It’s amazing how everything is chosen randomly, and then put together so quickly.
Thanks!
I'm at work right now, and really, I'm not sure what I do for a living.
No, actually I manage this little department at a school where we dole out standardized tests. I'm a teacher, but I'm assigned out of the classroom to do this administrative b.s. and run complicated reports about it and report it all to the government. Now you can forget what I do again--it's not very memorable!
But DCD, I got a writing credit, I think at the beginning....
Yeah, Whirlygirl, it's a fun evening and there's also free food. I won a whole bunch of swag--gift certificates for dinner, tickets to Disney Concert Hall....it was great.
Whoops, must have missed it. Happy to hear it though, now I can cross "Write angry letter about Julie's screenwriting credit" off my To Do List!
Great stuff! It's tightly written and really funny, and the performances are really good; just the right amount of tongue-in-cheek. I'm keeping this brief (because I'm having network problems and consequently posting from my phone) but congratulations and keep up the good work!
I just checked: the writing credit is at the end at about 6:35. It's right when the actor asks the actress if she wants to get ice cream.
What was pretty damn cool was that Jules got the assigment and we made dinner and developed this other (not as good) idea for about an hour -- and then Julie said "no wait, I'm gonna do this" and then went and wrote the script in 90 minutes.
On the screening Sunday night I got to be the arm candy. My lady is so talented!
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