Thanks Corbo. Yes, I must say I like Goody Two Shoes more. Not to brag, but I did have better control over it than the other one.
The process is thus: At 9 p.m. on a Friday night, the students are divided into teams of 3 to 5 people. Each team gets a packet of materials, including a sheet with guidelines on it. It tells us certain lines of dialogue, objects, and story suggestions that must be in the movie (because otherwise, someone could make a good short beforehand and plant it in the submissions). The teams have until 9 p.m. the next night to finish their movies.
On the weekend that birthed Goody Two Shoes, one of the suggestions on the list was "An unnatural love for an inanimate object." My teammates and I sat around for a couple of hours tossing ideas around, until we hatched the story about a pair of girl's shoes and boy's shoes that get separated and then reunited. The initial concept was mine, and we all pitched in about what the specific events should be. I did most of the directing for this one. I picked the music track that appears at the very beginning and the very end ("Love is Blue" -
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VIKpko4Ln90&feature=channel_page), as well as Beethoven's "Pathetique" (
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5cELMIRPiZw&feature=related). [Interesting fact: both songs have been used in immunity challenges during SEN Survivor] Another teammate picked the theme song from the film "The Third Man," since I didn't have any good ideas for tension building music during the scene where the shoes miss each other and then find each other again. If given enough time, I probably would've picked a different song, but we had like an hour left at that point and just had to put something there. The crowd loved the movie (especially the girls; all of the girls in the theater went "Awww" when it looks like the "good" shoes are going to be thrown away) and I'm pretty proud of it. Plus, it's always fun to play the romantic lead.
I really didn't enjoy making the second one. During the first one, we did the planning and a couple of the shots at night, slept, and did the rest in the morning and afternoon. This time, we stayed awake for the full 24 hours. Yes, the night scene was filmed that night (it was below zero and windy and we were out there for hours). I didn't have any good ideas this time around, so we just sort of went with what was funny to us at the time. The girl had a bunch of clown costumes and makeup, so we went with it. It got unfunny pretty quickly. The outdoor night stuff and the torture scene were grueling. We were tied up and beaten for three freaking hours (we filmed a ton of shit for that scene, including an escape attempt, that didn't make the final cut). The "driver guy" had the most control over this one. By the end of it, everyone was exhausted, cranky, and ready to be finished with it. I was dreading the screening, since I didn't give much input during the editing and instead left to take care of film club business. But I found the final edit to be pretty funny. The audience, especially the guys this time, howled with laughter during the whole thing.
Thanks for the feedback, and I mostly agree with your opinions.
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