From Dusk Till Dusk (Pt. 2)

Currently editing the 24 hour film. It's called "False Steps".

We came up with the idea for it pretty much in the first five minutes of brainstorming. The theme was "Second Chance", the element that needed to be included was "Blowing a Bubble". I said "What about a fortune teller blows a bubble to tell people their future?"

Fellow cohort Ashleigh Swenson piped up: "Oooh! They blow bubbles in chocolate milk!"

Went from there . . .

Twenty people were around for the brainstorming. Now, only seven are sitting around the editing table in the dining room. I'm only going off of an hour's worth of sleep. A lot of us are sick from greasy pizza intake, too much beer, too much Monster Energy drink. I've been pooping nonstop today.

Compared to last year's experience, it was more of a stressful, confusing jaunt than a fun, involved project shared by all. It was still fun and involved, but not as much as "Ctrl+S" was. Unbeknownst to me, a team of writers had already been handpicked for writing after the brainstorming. People sort of picked up the pace themselves afterward. Lots left. I was left sitting in the living room not knowing what to do. I didn't feel like this was "our" project this time around. It was more the four writers'. Not that that's bad, I just prefer the method we used last year of everyone writing the storyline together. So, again, comparitively, last year was better.

However, this film is interesting in its character development. Extremely hilarious moments were caught on film (my favorite involves Adri running in a hotel parking lot in nothing but a towel coming to a colorfully interjected realization dealing with a prostitute).

Oooh, new development. The edited film came out to 8:00 . . . worse than last year's 5:00. Holy crap. One hour. We're back in the same spot we were last year, cutting it right down to the wire.

Fingers crossed . . . it is 9:00 . . .

. . . it is now 10:50. We submitted the film in time, but it was cut down so much it looks like a bad preview. Plus, in order to save time, we rendered the movie in low quality. It was unwatchable.

So -- I consider us not turning it in.

You win some, you lose some.

Hot Chip -- "Made in the Dark"