We're #2

The "Best Of" screening for the 2012 48 Hour Film Project Boston happened last Wednesday, and since I already spoiled it in the blog title, I'll go right out and say that we finished as the runner up for Boston.  That's great in my book. I was, as the saying goes, "just happy to be there".  In addition, we received awards for Best Ensemble Cast, Best Use of Music (which really, if you had to guess one you'd guess that one), and Best Use of the Required Line of Dialogue. 

Some observations about the evening:

Watch everything I've written that is on the web

Recently a friend of mine posted to YouTube a couple of videos of things I wrote in college.  One of which I wrote about before. That prompted me to gather all of the videos of everything I've written that has found its way onto YouTube onto one big list.

Together, that's nine videos, a combined two hours, four minutes, and fourteen seconds of content, according to YouTube's count. They are:

1. Ourmageddon.  A short film which is a finalist in the 2012 48 Hour Film Project, Boston. A post-apocalyptic buddy musical.

2. Motivations Unlimited. A short film which was a finalist in the 2010 National Film Challenge. A comedy about a romantic advice service.

Ourmageddon: A Musical in 48 Hours

First off, I haven't blogged much recently as I hadn't written much due to life circumstances.  That has changed, and I should be making a few posts on things I'm working on right now, as I'm working on a lot.

When the time approached for the 48 Hour Film Project for Boston, I was pleased to hear from Malarkey Films, the team I've worked with successfully on three previous entries as well as The Ex Factor web series (which is still in editing, believe it or not).  Talking with Jack beforehand, it was a surprise to hear him testing the waters about the idea of doing a musical. Now, typically for the 48 Hour Film Project, you're randomly assigned a genre and most teams dread drawing the musical or Western genre.  This time we were going to do a musical on top of whatever genre we were actually assigned.

Blackout: A Choose Your Own Adventure Story

Last time, I posted about starting to do our writing group's Holiday Project.  This year we came up with a Bingo Card filled with story elements. We each had to use a row, column, or diagonal's worth of story elements into our story.  Yesterday, after four weeks away, we all reconvened to present our writings.  It's always fun to see how eight people with different sensibilities tackle the same problem. Our group has a pretty strong sci-fi/fantasy bent, and the story prompt "A forgotten god who has gone into hiding" attracted four people to use it, two horizontally and two vertically.  The exercise was kind to people. Everyone submitted something at least solid, and mostly complete.

For my entry, I decided to go a little bit over the top. Here's a little hint how: