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48 Hours Later

June 6th, 2009

The Saint Louis 48 hour film festival kicked off at 6:00 pm last night.  I showed up to take part in it at 10:00 pm.  I just got done with the fourteen hour shoot about two hours ago.

Apparently some consider me to be a full-fledged local actor.  A number of the improv crew and I were recruited for 48 hour film destiny.   Our work will be appearing in association with Stick Shaker Productions, run by Cleveland and Mark.

Our genre was horror.

Now, I haven’t pulled a serious all-nighter in years, but this was a lot of fun.  I ran around like a maniac before call time to get props and setup for producing half a person worth of fake blood (2 quarts).  Now, Cleveland hadn’t asked for fake blood, and we didn’t use it at all.  I JUST WANTED TO BE PREPARED.

The night involved learning lines, riffing new ones, and making our way through a three camera shoot with only one camera, and a lot of takes.  It helps to do this with some of your best friends.  Also, at around 4 in the morning, we accidentally let one of Mark’s cats out of the house, and it escaped into the alleyway.  Half the film crew had to go into local alleys to retrieve her.  Good times.

Now that the primary filming is over, I find myself free to sleep.  I’m on call, in case a reshoot is needed, but I kinda hope that we already have enough footage to make it work.  The editing and music are in Cleveland’s capable hands now.  I look forward to seeing myself killed on a 30 foot silver screen on Thursday night.

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