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Actress
and producer Emily Stone heard about the 48-Hour Guerilla
Filmmaking Challenge via Shooting People, a UK-based
network for filmmakers working in the independent sector
She
set to work trying to convince her friend Ben Blaine
("which wasn't too hard"):
"As
we'd never had the chance to work together," says Emily,
"I figured this would be a good way to test the waters
- the rest is history!"
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The
Backstory:
Five years ago
- while still at school - my brother Chris Blaine and I started
our production company, Charlie Productions, with money won cheating
at poker.
In the intervening
years we've been making short features with no money - including
the BAFTA short-listed films “Burnt Bernard” and tube fantasy “Russell
Square”.
So when our friend,
actress and producer Emily Stone suggested we band together
and take part in the 48-Hour Guerrilla Filmmaking Challenge,
our first reaction was, naturally - NO, NEVER!
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The
Pitch:
The basic
idea was to get teams of people to turn up one Saturday in
late August at the Curzon Soho in Shaftesbury Avenue, where
they would pluck a genre and a concept at random from a bag
and would then have exactly 48 hours to write, shoot and edit
a short film between five and ten minutes in duration.
The Top Ten
films would be screened at a later date, promising a bizarre
and diverse ramble through the London filmmaking scene.
Sounds fun
to you? To me it sounded like yet another reason not to sleep
at nights.
However Emily
is dead persuasive when she wants to be and so, with a degree
of mumbling about how it’ll never work, we decide to respond
to the challenge...
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Day
1 - Scene 1:
10am - August
31st – Curzon Soho, Shaftesbury Avenue
Not that good
a time for me since I’d spent the night drinking wine and rum with
Paul - producer of one of our next projects - and ended up
on his sofa with only four hours sleep.
However, luckily
for me, my brother Chris had chosen to prepare for the challenge
by going to the pub and drinking until he was sick - so at least
he wasn’t feeling any chirpier than me.
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| Ben and
Chris Blaine |
We venture into
the bowels of the Curzon cinema where we find that a lot of people
have taken up the challenge (and not eight of us, as I had kinda
hoped).
In fact the place
is fuller than I’ve ever seen it, so full that it is nearly 11am
by the time that Emily finally gets called up to pluck out the pieces
of paper which will decide our creative path for the next two days.
She draws “Spoof”
and “Out of Juice”.
Chris and I go
to the toilet where we agree that, all in all, it’d be best to call
a halt to the whole thing now and go and get some sleep.
But Emily won’t
let us and by the time we are all reassembled in one of those shiny
places where they sell something almost like coffee, our mindset
has clicked into gear and, as usual, we have the same thought:
“Let’s do a
spoof making of...documentary” we both say to Emily, scaring
her slightly.
“How is that
going to go with Out of Juice?” she says, always the sharp one.
“Er, it’s a
Juice Movie” we suggest, hopeful that she might forget that
such things do not exist... which doesn’t go down too well.
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