This project was so fun. It became a little bit all-consuming (still owe you guys a couple blog posts from this time period), but I’m really happy to have had the opportunity to dip my toe into the world of filmmaking, if only in a silly form, so far. Jordan and Kaelau were very kind and fun collaborators, and our skill sets were complementary. I was grateful to them for jumping on board with the script and idea of Scruffman. I knew my brother would be in town and thought that he would be a great fit for the part, so I was excited when he agreed to do it. I was not expecting his girlfriend to volunteer for the role of the queen, but I was thrilled to get to know her through the process of making this film, and I think she wound up being perfect for the part! 

I loved every aspect of it! The story conceptualization, writing the script, casting, location scouting, having fun with angles, lighting, framing of shots, and of course- many many hours of editing! My friend Emma stepped in to help out with VO, and that was an added bonus, plus opportunity to work on all aspects of editing- visual, music, VO audio- learning (through trial and error) about getting things to align and balance well. Ducking music behind VO. Anyway, the list goes on- was all around a great learning experience. And in terms of the group collaboration, great to further our skills in coordinating schedules and incorporating everyone’s input so that we could end up with something better than any of us could have pulled off, individually, generally doing our best as a team to bring the idea of Scruffman to life with the time and resources we had (limitations are really helpful when it comes to creativity, I find).

Most fun I’ve had on a project so far.