The second week at the EFC is upon me, and we're finally using the equipment! The following two weeks we will be divided into crews, two persons manning each position, ie. two writers, two camera men, two directors and so on. Every day we will have new positions and then we have two hours each day to make a 2-min movie. As it's called shooting games, we're not supposed to make anything of great quality, but just bond and learn how to use the equipment.
Today I was a script writer, so I got a logline saying "Money is the root of all evil" and then had to write a story about that with, another guy, in 45 mins. I actually liked the story we came up with, it had some slapstick comedy and ended up with the protagonist, who had been going through a lot of trouble to steal a small amount of money, losing the money and realizing he had to go through it all again. Unfortunately it got butchered by our director (only one, since we couldn't find the other person). Since we only had two hours to shoot it we were kinda in a hurry, but she decided to add new scenes that wasn't important to the story at all, so when we got around to shooting the main scenes we ran out of time and the ending was ruined. But, as mentioned, it's only a game, so I don't really care anymore at this point. We're going to watch all movies made by all crews today, at 19:30, so I'm really looking forward to that. I'll also see if I can upload our movie to YouTube, even though it's probably not worth viewing.
It was a lot of fun having a real DV camera and sound equipment though, makes you feel a bit professional. Anyway, the movies will hopefully be a lot better the following days, I'm looking forward to be the asshole-director. :P
I also ordered a Macbook today, so Kasper will probably whine in the comments.
