With regards to Dripping With Sweat team, we have sweated quite a bit this month! but sadly we will not be able to submit a feature film before the deadline.
We are still carrying on with filming our story, and hope to submit a decent 3min trailer for the ICA show, if this is still cool. The upshot is that we aim to carry on with the project independently of the challenge and hope to eventually cut together a "long short"
The reasons we could not finish are:
- Took too long to write the story
- Took too long to cast
- Sporadic availability of cast and locations
- Over ambitious / wordy script led to 6 hour shoots resulting in 6 minutes of usable editied footage
- Lack of directorial experience with camera setups led to 6 hour shoots resulting in 6 minutes of footage that actually cut together ok
- Lack of crew / contacts. My own credits so far comprise of writer, director, editor, SFX, casting, location manager, DP, sound, prop buyer, set dresser, costume dept, grip, driver, runner and animal wrangler (goldfish)
So there are the excuses! im sure other teams will find them familiar.
On a personal note, i do not regard this as a failure. As an aspiring film maker i could not have hoped for anything better than this challenge as a reason to get my hands dirty and get stuck in, and along the way to learn new things every day and to get better at this stuff. I aim to continue. Roll on your challenges sir, they provide the spark to get dreamer film makers out of the pub and onto the set. This was our rehearsal for the next one.
Your project is grand and worthy of merit. Maybe roll out a small de brief documentary about it, with interviews of the teams, those who made it and those who didnt, expressing their own trials and tribulations and experiences, clips of their films, BTS, commentaries. Its kind of like the Gumball/ Dakar Rally but films instead of cars, i know i would watch it!
all the best and see you at the ICA
Peter Palgan
Hi Johnnie,
Things are going well (we are in editing hell, however) for team Gaffa Cake!
Having spent the first 2 weeks of the challenge honing and writing our idea. Plus prepping and getting a cast together, we finally got filming under way on the 15th for a 7 day solid stint. Was a great week with some great performances from our cast and Zombie extras!
At the moment we have a dark character driven zombie film set some time in the near future! The edit is slowly coming together but myself and Adrian (Who I'm making the film with) are now prepared not to sleep till Sunday!
Here's a still from our film.
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