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The best part of the process was being an innovative problem solver.
The rules: All footage must shot and edited within 3 days. The movie must be made within 100km of Whistler. The finished product must be 5 minutes or less. (Later I added 3 minutes of footage to make the director’s cut.) Legal permission is required for music used. My full-time crew included myself, and my camera man who had never used a video camera before. I had one extra actor for a short window of time. And I had one huge pile of ambition. I considered my resources while creating the story and writing the script. A close friend was able to compose original music to my storyboards. Location scouting was done the afternoon before the start of the competition. My goals were ambitious. I bit off more than I could chew, and started chewing it. I set out to make a fun film that felt like an epic motion picture condensed... very condensed. The target audience is 20-something-year-old snowboarders. You'll see mystery, car chase, a fight scene, a final showdown, and a surprise ending, but I don't want to give it all away. When the pressure is up, I deliver. In the three days of production there was an intense schedule of scenes to get, and several locations. No time to waste, and few second chances. One innovative technique I incorporated was do the fight scene in single frame shots, one at a time, like stop-motion animation with a digital camera. This allowed me to get exactly the image I wanted in the frame without doing multiple takes and worrying about timing (or actors that couldn't fight).
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