Brooklyn Young Filmmakers
OPEN/CLOSE FILM SHOOT
SCAVENGER HUNT: DAY 1Wanted: CINEMATOGRAPHER W/CAMERA ($300 for 2 Day Shoot,Sept 18 & 19, + 2 planning sessions)
Must have narrative film samples; a good digital camcorder; and enjoy teaching. Special consideration given to DPs who live or work in Fort Greene or surrounding Brooklyn neighborhoods. To apply send info to: communityfilm@wearebyfc.org
(from BACK STREETS, 30min, 2009
trailer: http://vimeo.com/14065517
An Adonis Williams film
Brooklyn Young Filmmakers Executive Producer
Matt Workman, DP http://mattworkman.com/
photo: Holly Hosman)
Brooklyn Young Filmmakers is shooting our next short film OPEN/CLOSE the weekend of September 17 (load-in and set-up day), 18 & 19 (shoot days), at the Brooklyn Free School http://brooklynfreeschool.org/ (free spirit and thought-wise, love the collage of photos on their home page -- more on them in upcoming posts).
This was the first time we started Pre-Production on a Community Filmmaking project without a location already confirmed. We had a small location budget for our three day weekend shoot. Over the last couple of weeks we have been calling out to the Universe (mostly through the internet) -- "HELP!!!!" Low and behold, the Universe answered -- several times!
Of special help was S.O.S. Brooklyn Young Filmmakers put out to FGKids@yahoo.com . Many neighborhoods have a group email for parents to share information. The Fort Greene one is notorious for being one of the most resourceful. I sent a request to join the group, not as a parent, but as someone who works with parents and teenagers. Now if I need info on a good plumber, the best bakery, or how to deal with city regulations, I'll get five recommendations. I asked the group if anyone knew a location that BYFC might shoot at. Within a few days we had three possible locations to choose from! Our faith in the Universe has been renewed! So of course we're gonna keep asking.
STAY TUNED: Over the next six days Brooklyn Young Filmmakers will be posting other items needed for our OPEN/CLOSE Scavenger Hunt. Help us find our Scavenger Hunt items!
What is a SCAVENGER HUNT? It's a game in which the organizers prepare a list defining specific items, which the participants -- individuals or teams -- seek to gather -- usually without purchasing them -- or perform tasks or take photographs of the items, as specified. The goal is usally to be the first to complete the list, although in a variation of the game, players can also be challenged to complete the tasks in the most creative manner.
Gossip columnist Elsa Maxwell is credited with inventing scavenger hunts for 1930s parties: "Serve the dinner backwards, do anything, but for goodness sake, do something weird!" The University of Chicago, every May since 1987 up to 2010, has hosted the largest and best scavenger hunt in the world! http://scavhunt.uchicago.edu
FILM QUIZ: What classic 1930s screwball comedy opens with a drunken bunch of socialites on a Scavenger Hunt for a goat and a lost man in a tent city on a dump? It featured the THIN MAN star and Clark Gable's wife (who died tragically at 33). This film played this season at Bryant Parks Outdoor Film Series.
OPEN/CLOSE is a New York story. A dialogue excerpt:
CARITA:
Someone said, "The present in New York is so powerful that the past gets lost." Maybe that's why so many hurt, lonely people come here....People like us, when we remember the past, it's always what was broken....
Copyright 2010 Trayce Gardner & Debbie Boswell
FILM QUIZ ANSWER: MY MAN GODFREY (See trailer: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=3810665927813772372#
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