Our professor encouraged us to each make a documentary. Not because it was an Independent Documentary Producer class but because in a college setting, making a documentary is a little "easier" than a short narrative film. While I enjoy documentaries, and I have made a few myself, I wanted to challenge myself with a narrative film.
Loving to write and having taken a playwrighting class in high school and a screenwriting class in college, I set out to write my own screenplay. The only problem was that I had no idea what kind of film I wanted to make! After much brainstorming I finally had an idea and I set to work.
With the script written, now it was time to cast the film, the only problem was that Clark is not exactly known for its great actors. Through auditions as well as some negotiation and persuasion I cast my 7 actors. Now came the hard part--scheduling and retention.
With 7 college students, it's hard to find a time when everyone can meet, and once you finally do find a time, it's usually only a 20 minute window of availability. As stated, I was under a time crunch, needing to film and edit my movie within a matter of two months, which seems like a long time for a 10 minute film, but when the actors can't meet and when the editing suites are only open a few hours everyday...it's not very long at all!
My actors were great, although acting isn't their passion they dove in head first and showed amazing dedication--willing to try anything for the sake of art.
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