48 Hour Film Project 2005 (Saturday Evening)
We have just finished shooting at the airport and I am happy to report we are not only on target but we have extra footage just too cool not to get. "You mean you dogfight?"
We have one sequence left to film and that is done at our primary lair. Meanwhile at the secondary lair news of my death has just been capured to computer from the tape. The lab is running fine with editing, post production sound, and 3D titles and graphics cranking out movie magic as we speak.
Seinfield has the superman item in each episode. Ike Quigley has a big Woody he just loves to abuse. (So far I have only survived one Ike Quigley production.)
As you can tell from my ability to write in complete sentences I managed to get a one hour nap. One hour sleep in 48 hours awake isn't much, but it is way better than no sleep at all.
On the project management side of this, we had some task run late but we were able to run some other tasks concurently so we were able to do more work in the same period of time. The Holywood method would be to "crash" the schedule by throwing dollars at the problem until it went away. So far this production has only cost about $450 (including the entry fee) and we don't want to waste precious dollars. As of now we have rebaselined for a slight scope increase but anticipate we will be finished with shooting by 11pm. Everyone sleeps and we wrap post production between 9am and 3pm with 4 hours to spare. The principal stakeholders are thrilled as we are well ahead of their last years project which failed to meet the hard end date. We are also saving them money over last year.
Fear our 3L337 Project Managemenet Filmmakeing skilz.
update; Rob is also keeeping us updated from the second lair. I think I will turn on trillian.
Update2: 1am shooting has wrapped and the last tape is one the way to the second lair. ADR will begin setup at 9:30am and actors will arive at 10am. We are in very good shape. Or so this light switch keeps assuring me. sleep.....
