Woody Cavenaugh

Its Monday morning. On the way into work I looked at the clock in the car and it said 98.7 in a panic I called into work to let them know I was going to be late. That's how tired I am.

We sent a finished but not polished version of our film to the finish line about an hour before the deadline. They didn't intend to turn it in unless something terrible happened and the polished version didn't make it in in time. With ten minutes to spare our lead actor saunters into the tavern and after exchanging passwords switched the polished tape for the unpolished one and the mystery Co-Producing Scotsman known only as "Erik Rankin" turned in all of our paperwork, and our polished film to the contest officials, Ed and Nisha. By 7:30 only 21 of the original 33 teams crossed the finish line. Like last year, a full one third of those who try fail. It sends a shiver up my spine to know that for two years in a row I have been on a team that reached the finish line on time. What will next year bring?

It was worth it though, and I can't wait until next year to do it all over again. By that time I should be caught up on my sleep. I figured now would be a good time to make a quick list of other people on the crew who blogged about the experience and link them here also this way you get a more complete picture of what Team Underexposed was up to. And no, we aren't going to tell you what it was about other than we drew "Spy" as our genre.

Rob (Post Production Supervisor)Saturday July 23rd, 11:38 am.
Rob (Post Production Supervisor)Saturday July 23rd 10:21pm.
Rob (Post Production Supervisor)Sunday July 24th, 1:43pm.
Rob (Post Production Supervisor) Monday July 25th 8:28am.

Kimi (Script Supervisor), dropped something on her livejournal but refuses to release it to the wild because in her words, "I went 30 hours without sleep, anything I wrote wouldn't be insightful."

Sara (First Assistant Director) "*snore*" I SAID SARA (FIRST ASSISTANT DIRECTOR) "*snooooooorrrrreeeeett* *mumble*." I couldn't have said it better myself.

There are others, but who knows if they will weigh in on their blogs at all.

My overall impression after the fact was that through Elvin magic (or at least some cookies) several small groups of excellent people came together with some other excellent people no one had worked with before and formed a perfect union of likeminded souls who made a concerted effort to raise the already sky-high bar of indi film in Greensboro. I have no idea if we would win anything in the final contest, but our effort helps to make everyone have to work just a little harder.

So wanna see a movie?
Group A films show July 26th at 6:30pm and a second showing at 8:30pm
Group B films show July 27th at 6:30pm and a second showing at 8:30pm <--That's us
Group C films show July 28th at 6:30 and a second showing at 8:30pm

The winners will be announced on July 30th at the Sky Bar "Best overall" will be announced at 9pm so come early and meet the teams. We will all be showered by this time, I promise.

UPDATE:
Sara Cavenaugh (First Assistant Director) Has had her say.
Ike Quigley (Director) Has his say.