So at 7pm, the organizers told us all get the hell outta there and get to work. Our team, Continental Shift, spent Friday night deciding on an idea and writing a preliminary script. We called it a day around 11pm and headed home to get some sleep. We'd start filming at 9am Saturday morning. In my past life as a TV reporter, I'm used to shooting my own video, writing the story, and being completely in charge. Well, since I was acting in the film, I couldn't be behind the camera. It was a very different feeling to work as a team and come to consensus and trust other peoples talents.
We finished shooting by 5pm and two of us started reviewing the footage and editing. I was back in my comfort zone with editing. It was very cool seeing the film come together. One of our teammates is a killer blues guitar/harmonica/singing musician. He recorded some music to help the film flow together wonderfully. We worked up until midnight and had a very rough draft completed.
Sunday morning, we got back at editing around 9am. We tweaked this and that, and cut this and added that, until at 3pm it was the best it was going to get. Teams had between 5:30-7:30pm to turn the films in. I dropped our's off at 6:42pm. All in all, it was a very cool experience. I'm hopeful to do it again next year.