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Report Tuesday Afternoon 22/01 - Day 1

(Tuesday, Januari 22^nd 2008)

After a short break Marcel Swagers and Dan Aldridge of NBC Universal joined. They presented the briefing for the one-minute-shorts, the first assignment for the group. After some chaotic moments and some technical failures things started to get clear. Each team got his own genre: Crime, Thriller, Action, Mystery, Suspense. But because there are six teams one group got the bonus genre: a rock ‘n roll stunt short. All films get shot in one day and have to be edited tomorrow. What a hell of a job.

You could feel creative pressure building up during the briefing. Together with the actors (such as Ruben van der Meer, Horace Cohen, Esmee de la Bretonniere and Mark Ram) the group was dismissed for lunch. The main theme is freedom. Feel free to improvise. Use whatever you can. Get arrested but don’t forget to make a documentary of it. Leave your location and create something beautiful. It’s amazing to see how Rutger spreads his knowledge, creativity and passion over the group.

In spite of the heavy hours coming up every one seemed quite relaxed. During lunch the first ideas crossed the table. Around three o’clock the first groups seemed to have their script ready. But during dinner the stress was building up. High speed conversations, skittish eyes and laptops ruled the tables. Scripts got rewritten every five minutes. A hell of an evening was in front of everyone.