Tomorrow, we go location scouting for the next major project from Bombdotcom Productions, The Interconnection of Mr. Daily, a featurette penned by the singularly brilliant Joey Schlegel. I'll be directing. Hopefully, I don't ruin everything. Doing all this preproduction work has been invigorating.

Recently, a large group of us got together to shoot a project in 48 hours. We had missed the actual 48 Hour Film Project when it rolled through town, but still wanted a swing at it. However, doing the project outside of the usual theme or genre constraints prescribed in these situations, we wound up with roughly a dozen writerly individuals trying to pitch and write a film by committee. If you are or have worked with writers, you know what this meant: utter chaos.

We ended up producing a mockumentary about a group of adults trying to hang onto their childhoods by engaging in an annual game of Red Rover. Editing was part of the 48 hour project, but the ten minute cut that screened at the Tower Theatre's Open Mic Night still felt bloated to me. Patrick, one of our editors is probably going to cut about two minutes from it, making it tighter and (hopefully) more coherent. We'll wait to upload a copy to the website until we hav a more satisfactory cut.

Perhaps the best part of the shoot was a twenty minute, continuous take of a Red Rover game from start to finish, everyone firmly in character. The fact that I have this on tape is something truly awesome. A here's a special shout out to Jon Fairbanks, who suffered an injury in the course of his brilliant performance.

Perhaps we're on something of a roll here with producing our films. 2005 and 2006 were despairingly dry years for Bombdotcom (two short films in the last two years? for shame). This summer actually could turn out to be rather productive; we've got a couple other things on the slate.

Labels: bombdotcom productions, The Interconnection of Mr. Daily