The "Pondering Gargoyle" Has Emerged

In the span of 48 hours, I have only slept 6 hours. What was I doing with the other 42 you ask? Editing my movie, of course! Finally, after 2 years of hibernation, I have created a movie! Well, it was a remake of my last movie "The Box", but now it has better lighting, actors, directing, locations, editing, music, mood... Hell, it has better everything!

Well, the whole film started by chance actually. The "montaj" or editing class had an assignment. We were split up into groups, each having cinematographers, screenwriters and directors. The assignment was to make a short 5 mins film, showing your editing at best. Due to circumstances, I had a bit of trouble working with my group. It wasn't personal or nothing, just different ideas in directing. So me, and my friend, Ples (pronounced Plesh), who is also in the directing class, met with a couple of cinematographers, Alex and Danny the Kid, who were in the same bind as us. So, in true espionage style, we created a group in secrecy. Thus, the group was created.

We began plotting ideas, and I pitched my "The Box" idea, and we all agreed to work with it. Kiyaa helped with storyboarding, and I wrote the script. We also had help with a screenwriter, Anna, who added a touch of darkness to the script. Finally, we presented the idea to the professor, who loved it! She interrupted my directing class, just to say she liked it! :D Oh! This whole process was in the span of 3 days... amazing group I have.

After the greenlight to go came about, we organized a group of freaking awesome actors! Through Danny's room mate, Victor who is an actor, we were able to wrangle up a fantastic cast. We had Alex, who really helped me learn about how to get into the characters of my scripts. Then we had Victor, who was funny and wild, and made the set more laid back. I gotta thank him for finding the actors! After that, we had Alice, an actress who was fantastically amazing! She got the character perfect! And finally, we had Sadim. I didn't talk to him much and he didn't have a big role in the movie, but I liked his style and I'm thinking of casting him in other movies that I make. :P

Filming was great! It took me a while to get into directing. Like a gender confused chipmunk, I felt unsure, but had a lot of energy. We had the help of Anda, a fourth year director, who really taught me how to direct and film effectively. She was the spice that made this whole fantastic crew work! Ples helped a lot along the way, like when I was confused and shit, he would step in. Real cool, like. I also learnt a great deal about lighting and stuff. Danny and Alex knew a lot about lighting and we were able to use fantastic lighting because of them.

Finally, the editing. My god. This was more annoying than a diseased ferret with the powers of projectile vomiting! Me and Ples stayed up 2 nights, cooped up in my room, editing it. We survived on "Bake Rolls" snacks and Pepsi. We went through 4 hours of footage, trying to edit it down to 10 mins. And after 42 hours of straight work, we came up with "The Box"!

And along with the birth of "The Box" came the birth of "Pondering Gargoyle Productions"! I always wanted to have a production team called "Pondering Ape Productions" and Ples wanted "Gargoyle Productions". After a few fork stabs and flailing girly punches (from Ples), we comprimised and came up with "Pondering Gargoyle". A name that shall uphold our film making abilities with pride and power!

So today I presented the film. Sadly, Ples couldn't be there, due to the fact that he was kicked out of class for talking. :P So I had to persevere with one man less. Lemme tell you, my stomach was rolling like an apyleptic shocked kid. I was so nervous. But finally, at the end, it came out great. Sure there were flaws with too long cuts, and crappy sound. But overall, the professor said "the movie beat last year's films". XD I have to thank the actors and the crew for all this. Also outside assistance from Kiyaa and Anda. I have a crew I can be proud of!

With this aside, now I can focus on my other script for my directing final. Unfortunately, after so many edits, I feel like I've massacred the whole point of the story... sigh... oh well!

Peace out,
Me.

P.S. Will post the movie on YouTube.com after a few edits.