Post Comment (a One Minute Movie)

The Making-Of Story.

Steve (me): the camera guy
Louis: the angry concept guy
Dustin: the people relations guy
Dane: the vibe guy

It took a total of three days planning to conceptualise and put into process the movie. That is, three days in Dustin's lounge sweating over cups of tea and trips to Pick 'n Pay. An immediate rift formed between those who wanted to incorporate their hobbies of skateboarding and street art into the movie and those that wanted to create cutting edge journalism. Finally on the third day we had a concept formed around Louis constant need to try start social revolutions and my desire to create cinematic history (at this point Dustin and Dane couldn't get a word in)

Monday Morning / The Rig:
Thanks to a 1975 Nikkormat camera with 50mm and 135mm prime lenses, microscope slides, parafin wax, dane's beeswax hair products, pieces of pipe donated by KwaZulu Plastics and loads of black electricians tape we had "The Rig". Precarious, shakey, unpredictable and ultimately awesome, The Rig was ready for shooting.

Monday Day / On Day One
We shot the typewriter, the hand writing scene and the postcard scene. Interior lighting is too poor for The Rig to cope. Dustin stepped in with a silk screen exposing unit loaded with four 500 Watt halogen bulbs. This provided enough light to shoot all the interior scenes and baste roast mutton.

Tuesday / Day Two
AM. Organise five 2nd Year tech students to pose for portraits, print out their facebook profiles and make sure they show up at the Loft for the shot. Done.
PM. Organise a good looking couple to pose with their cellphones for a scene shot at The Cube park. Done.

Thurdsday Night / Day Three
We had to get Ryan 'Rock Jaw' van Rooyen to show up at an undisclosed location in Queensburgh on Valentines Night for the "Have We Lost Touch" Scene. This was difficult but he took pity on our student endevour. On that same night, the fax machine scenes, computer scenes and morse code stop motion were shot.

Week 2, Monday /
Editing begins in ernest. All four of us are behind the computer at my home in Queensburgh. Cut, trim, re-arrange and time scenes to music. Edit music track. Movie is out of sync. Cut, trim, re-arrange and time scenes to music. Out of System Memory. Shut-down and Restart. This continues into the night. By midnight we're all satisfied with the movie. Hoorah.

Tuesday /
Wrap it up and everyone can go home by noon. I don't provide good breakfast anyway.