THE GIRL WHO WANTED TO DO SOMETHING B-I-G!

For those of you who haven't read about this, here's your opportunity!

(All of this is "borrowed" from Dennis' blog")

Back in November, Dennis noticed, - - "a call for submissions from the LDS Film Festival for 5-minute, homemade family movies. By homemade, they mean all the members of the team must be family, with the exception of up to one outside person. And the 5-minute rule, which creates certain narrative limitations, also keeps things from getting out of control and becoming all-consuming. Or at least, if it becomes all-consuming, as these things seem wont to do, it will be for only a limited amount of time.

I mentioned it to daughter number 3, Sash. She thought it sounded like it would be fun, if we did it right. What “right” was, we weren’t too sure about. But we started looking for examples of short movies that we liked. We were attracted to those with limited dialogue, favoring voice-over narration, with a fable quality. That style would help on the production end, too, as we would not have to worry quite so much about on-set sound. And the fable aspect would allow us to steer clear of realistic locations, which can be a challenge in Utah in the winter (the deadline is in the heart of winter).

The Girl Who Wanted to do Something Big

I started crafting together a script. It’s called, “The Girl Who Wanted to do Something Big,” which, if we can pull it off, will hopefully be a whimsical tale about a girl with big plans for her day, which end up getting sidetracked by this thing called life, and how that changes her for the good. Like all things, it’s autobiographical (except for, you know, the “girl” part), but I hope others will be able to relate, too.

Production-wise, it’s a little more ambitious than I had originally envisioned. Actually, a lot more ambitious. Cast is now at four, including kids (tapping a niece and nephew), with a bunch of locations, costumes, green screen, that sort of thing. Probably shoot it between the holidays. We’ll have to get creative to make it work. And we’ll have to pull in the big guns: Ken and a couple of his kids, Suzanne, Danielle, Katie and her husband, Daren (from the East Coast via Skype), Sash and her boyfriend, Curtis (our one outsider, although he doesn’t seem like it).

So tomorrow, the day after Thanksgiving, we’ll have our first pre-production meeting around the dining room table, to see how we might be able to pull this thing off. I suspect this effort will generate more than a few “notes to self.” I’ll keep you posted."

And thus was born this wonderful little movie.

The Girl Who Wanted to do Something

B- I- G.

There she is folks!

The stars of the movie: Curtis, Sashy, Sophie and JP.

You can watch the trailer here.

 Me doing my "bit" and by bit, it was tiny but fun to be a part of this production.

 Some of the cast and crew. You can see it is an Agle family production. Even Katie and Daren were a big part of it.'

Speaking of big, that is some green screen that Sue is conquering.

This Saturday (March 7th at 12:30p) it will be shown at the LDS Film Festival held at the SCERA in Orem, Utah.