Finished in Philly

I’m starting to realize how tiring long-distance 48-hour filmmaking can be. I’ve driven three round-trips between New York and Philadelphia this week for the 48-Hour Film Project; one trip on Friday for the kickoff, a second on Sunday for the dropoff and a third on Tuesday for the screening. Driving to Philly is normally no big deal, but when you make a 48-Hour film between two of those three trips, you’re driving on less sleep than you would under normal circumstances. So the drives become pretty exhausting on top of the sleep loss from the films. On the other hand, in past years I’ve done out-of-town 48-Hour Films in which I stayed in a local hotel to make the film. On the whole, I’m still better off making the film in my own environment because all my resources are available. When I do a film away from home, anything I didn’t bring I probably can’t get.
   

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All in all the Philadelphia trip was great. The filmmakers there are wonderful, friendly and very, very talented. It’s hard to keep track of who did what in an event where your own film is being screened.

My own film seemed to go over well. I drew the Mockumentary genre, so I couldn’t use the operatic approach I usually use, singing all text. A mockumentary really needs some spoken segments. For some reason I got fixed on a Satanic theme, so I offered the Devil’s first music video and an interview with Satan. It may have been a mistake to get stuck on a preconceived idea, which I did with the Satan motif, but once I was working on it, there was no going back. (The Devil made me do it!) Besides, once I realized that the required line of dialogue, “First put your feet like this,” was a perfect musical match for most settings of Ave Maria, I was hooked. I couldn’t resist the idea of having Satan sing Ave Maria.

As I’ve done more and more 48-Hour Films I’ve learned to embrace the random elements more and more. If I take the time to find the music in the required line of dialog, I start to discover story elements and character traits that I wouldn’t have thought of if I’d just tried to churn something up “in my head.” It’s really a gift to get a chance to ditch your preconceived ideas and leap into something unknown.

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