My movie début

So last night I went to Londonderry (New Hampshire) to watch movies that had been submitted as part of the New Hampshire 48 Hour Film Project — including the following short, film, in which I did the narration:

The 48 Hour Film Project is a worldwide enterprise where on Friday evening teams of filmmakers (usually amateur and often first-time) are given a genre (in our case fantasy — others included musical, suspense, cop, and buddy movie), a character (either Marie or Max Otterbein), the character’s profession (waitress/waiter), a prop (sunglasses), and a line of dialogue (“Don’t just stand there. Move it!”). Teams also had t include a New Hampshire landmark in the movie. By Sunday evening the film must be handed in.

John Herman was the force behind our effort. He’d asked me to do the narration, but I also got drafted in to brainstorm ideas for the script (although not to write the script itself) and I also had a small on-screen role at the start and end of the film. It’s not a perfect movie by any means, but I’m very impressed with what John and the team managed to pull off in the 48 hours available.

It was a lot of fun and I hope I get to be involved next year.

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