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Four and a half hours into the 24 hour film challenge.

It feels like nothing, yet it has already been nigh the 6th of our allotted time, wait, Lorcan is correcting me, it's an 8th of our allotted time, meanwhile to the right of me, Annie, the only one in our grouping of three who is writing, yeah that Annie, her brain just exploded, she says.

To catch you up on what we're doing. - Oh wait, make that five and a half hours into the 24 hour film challenge, I just had to go and make a prop gravestone. But I'm back now and bakc to the blog what with the forty minutes I have left of Thursday, Thor's day, my fourth day of blogging.

So, to catch you up, apologies it is as hectic here as 24 hour film madness is, just like last year we are once again, as Maddrim Media, making a film in 24 hours. We begin by going into one of the films and getting the audience to give us a prop, line and location.

Last year we were given:
A beer bottle
The play park
"One small step for man, one giant leap for mankind."

And we made this:

Today at six we went into the start of the screening of American Interior and the audience gave us:

A cactus
A swimming pool (location)
"I aint got time to bleed."

We then started the writing process, well the initial discussions, here's a photo of what that looked like:

 

 

Things got pretty heated as three different films emerged, and by heated I mean excited, then heated. We took half an hour to split up and consolidate these different ideas, came back together and they were further apart then they had ever been in future. We carried on, with one of them. We never even voted, we just went with the film idea that had the most fuel for jokes and puns. The initial brain storming ideas and writing stage seems like it could cause conflict, maybe even losing some people's interest, but, like last year, it all very naturally grew into one script.

Next stage: Food.

I had too much and had to lie down for a while due to too much food (and the fact I never chew it).

The stage after food:  More consolidating of ideas.

Like last year we split the script into three parts and divided the group into three groups, one to work on each part, then joined up and told eachother what was going on, luckily they all worked together, this is a risk that paid off. With hilarious results, that you can see tomorrow at Homemade in Shetland's Screenplay in Screen 1 at 18.00 in Mareel, Lerwick, Shetland - glad I remembered to write that bit.


Here is us telling each other what is happening in each section of film:



 

 

So after this it was time to start working on props, as it is too dark to film outside.

Frey and I were put on tombstone duties, here are some snaps but with enough missing so there are no spoilers for you, APART FROM THE FACT THERE'S A GRAVE STONE:



 

Now we are embarking on one of the first ever audition processes Maddrim has ever embarked on, certainly for a 24 hour film (this is our 2nd ever 24 hour film). Well I must go, as I need to post this blog before midnight and then prepare to audition. Hope to see you all in Mareel tomorrow for the premiere of the 24 hour film, along with all the other Homemade films, of which Maddrim and the Heavy Metal Buffet has entries. Otherwise we will upload it to youtube in future for your viewing pleasure.

Goodnight, for you, I don't know when we'll get to sleep tonight, oh yeah and apologies for this blog, if it seems incoherent and makes no sense, that's because of the 24 hour film.

 

 

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