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Friday
day
After
about 4 hours sleep the night before: Food and implement shopping,
making sure our editing room was set-up at the house, doing
laundry, cleaning the house, grabbing a shower and making
myself look presentable for the outside world.
Friday
evening, 6pm
Arrived
at the Warehouse Theatre in NW DC, along with at least 70
other people to get our genre, prop, line, and character.
Had a lot of fun talking with the other team reps, and chuckled
because an NPR sound engineer was there to record the whole
thing (I work for NPR).
When it came time to draw the genres, the very first team
rep drew "Musical or Western", and the entire theatre uproared
with a loud "ooooooh", because almost all of them were dreading
getting that one (I really wanted to do some tumbleweeds,
I loves me some tumbleweeds).
Drew ours as Sci Fi. Mark and Liz, the creators of the 48
Hour project, drew the other required elements, and we all
squished like cattle through the theatre doors, got onto our
cellphones, and out into the rain that opened up from the
sky right on cue. I started the phone chain about what was
pulled, and hightailed it out of the NPR parking garage conveniently
located a block away.
Spent the next hour stuck in horrendous traffic from DC, talking
to myself on a microcassette recorder and drawing stares from
commuters. I plan to destroy that tape, because I sound like
a crazed idiot, babbling about the Twilight Zone and the X-Files
and the two-dimensional prison they used in Superman.
Got home, tapped my long-time friend, long-ago ex, and landlord
Scott Peck, and we started throwing each other's ideas around.
After shooting down Scott's nude and sex scene ideas, we started
forming a great story. Enter yet another long-time friend
and long-ago ex Chris Ellison, exit Scott, and then Chris
helped me hash out the last few main details and fix any glaring
plot holes. Scott went home, Chris got busy getting other
things for us, and I wrote the screenplay.
I won't ruin the movie, but we decided on a detective/mystery/sci-fi
combo a la a darkish episode of the X-Files type of feel,
about sudden disappearances of people, with the only clue
left behind being a photo of them right before they disappeared.
Meanwhile Jackson and Tim had scurried out dodging the rain
to grab filler/possible montage video and sound.
Sometime early morning I read the script to the boys, and
started planning on what to do when and where. Got to sleep
at about 3:30am,
scheduled to wake up at 6:30am.
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