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We did it again this year against our better judgment - 48 hours of
total madness. 48 hours where a film owns every part of your mind body
and soul. This year I headed up the Pixel Farmer team again. We had a
combined cast and crew of 29 people
strong.
We further refined our process &
strategy in pre-production meetings, weeks before. Four locations were
scouted in advanced. Head shots of potential actors were taken amid
taking care of as many other producing details as possible before
the clock started ticking at 7:30pm the Friday night of the
competition.
We drew
MYSTERY and decided on our warehouse location in lower Price Hill.
A two
hour brain storming session kicked everything off, then a writers team
took over, as other departments met and made plans. A script with
casting calls - directions etc. was completed by 3:30am.
We started
shooting the next day at 7:00am and didn't finish until after
3:00am. Picking up shooting again at 8:00am Sunday, the final tapes
were
ushered back to the edit at 2:30pm. The edit had started Sat. with the
first tapes delivered around 1:00pm and continued all night.
The edit
proceeded up until the last possible moments, then we raced the tape to the
deadline location at a Main St. bar. We made it with only a literal
minute to spare. See all the details on the
Fermata website. It was indeed another wild ride again this
year. Download the film from
here.
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