We just stick a camera in the elevator

One day Dean said to us: "we should make a movie". Idea was to stick a handy-camera in the corner of an elevator, get us to say a few witty and snazzy lines that he wrote. Call it "Corporate Raiders", a dark comedy with a twist, a short piece, no more than 5 min. "It'll be fun, I promise you", he said.

The next thing we knew, we had weekend rehearsals, acting classes, lines to memorise, accents to master and fittings to go to. "Simone" was borne, a private joke we crack up over. Till today whenever i meet a girl with this name, i burst out laughing. How rude. (I basically read "C'mon" in my lines, as "Simone". Get it? Worse, we have it on tape that gets replayed at ocassions).

Well, we also ended up with a full production team; sound, cameras, lights, make-up assistants, props experts and costume rentals. We all chipped a bit of money to pull it off, while the Deans worked their charms on the crew to get them to do it almost for free. We worked 14 hours on Saturday and 18 hrs on Sunday.

This was one of the best weekends we had together as friends. We ended up with a short movie of 12 min and memories for years.

We love the Deans.

Ok, Dean: can i now have .avi format of the movie to put it up on my blog?

Pix from the shoot are here.