The project, now international in 48+ cities, started in 2001 at our very own DC.
Our team meets to talk-shop tonight….can’t wait. We’ve got a fun, spunky crew ready to go — including some DC Media Makers.
Things we’ll brainstorm on & decide: shoot sites for different genres (we draw our genre Friday, then start writing plot, script, casting, etc), production schedule for next weekend, how many pizza places are on team’s speed dial…
THE GOAL:
Creative production only transpires next weekend during the actual project festival. We write, rehearse, act, shoot, and edit to cut a 4-to-7 minute short!
A few folks from DC Media Makers covered today’s protests and march.
See below clips from my source footage.
WARNING:
All footage and audio are from today’s events. One clip shows a mock hostage scene. Also some audio includes a young child voicing protest (I offer this in case you’d rather avoid said clips before screening…).
Andy and Carl secured press credentials and accessed speakers backstage like:
Sean Penn, Jesse Jackson, Susan Sarandon, Tim Robbins, and presidential candidate Dennis Kucinich, among others.
I observed the crowds & their messages of Bush’s impeachment, anti-occupation, & Raging Grannies for Peace. Footage forthcoming.
UPDATE: Americablog remarks on the protest’s slate of speakers.
And yes the director used words like ‘rehearse it twice, then go!’ and ‘quiet for take 2, scene 43!’.
A DCWW member posted a call-for-extras notice to the list serve; she’s a friend of the producer for Last Winter, a current production being filmed in DC.
A few of us were asked to drink champagne in a New Years Eve scene and silently mouth conversation (…director suggested whispering the word ‘watermelon’ as it makes the mouth look like it’s rhythmically speaking).
I salivated over their portable studio — a huge tripod set-up with a few boom mics, a sound unit crammed in the apartment’s kitchen (a temporary set for this particular scene), and round, white lighting sheaths on fish pole like fixtures.
It was a thrill observing the set, the actors made or missed their lines, & the producer in the background trying to feed us extras.
