The Police and Vomit Make Filmmaking Tough: The 48-Hour Film Project Diary, Day 2

We followed three teams as they tried to make films in 48 Hours

By ALLIE DONAHUE
Day 2
48-Hour Film Project
three teams we followed

But in this project, debilitating nausea, drop-ins from PPB and a drone (?) are all part of the creative process. Apparently $31.50 is the cost to fuel a Portland indie film crew, in tacos.


SATURDAY, August 1

1:08 am: TEAM WOLF's writers are drafting a script


8:01 am: The lead actress of LOVELY NUMB is throwing up, so the team’s wardrobe and makeup director Theresa Ritchie steps in to act.

LOVELY NUMB

 

Early: MAN VS FILM works out writing their parameters: Fish out of water for genre, bicycle part for prop and Cal or Cathy Coltrane, someone affected by the legalization of marijuana, for character.

MAN VS FILM

 

9:45 am: TEAM WOLF is still writing...

11:55 am: The police arrive at TEAM WOLF's filming location, an abandoned market on Northeast 53rd Avenue and Glisan.

 


noon: TEAM WOLF explains itself to PPB and leader Erin Lyon and her crew continue filming.



Meanwhile: Erich Demerath, the veteran and award-winning leader of MAN VS FILM, ponders the script with Todd Robinson
Erich Demerath and Todd Robinson of MAN VS FILM

 


2:15 pm: LOVELY NUMB sets up outside The Watershed, an industrial arts space on Southeast Milwaukee and 16th Avenue

4:01 pm: The LOVELY NUMB crew eats $31.50 worth of tacos and burritos from La Sirenita. Then they start the makeup process for filming.
LOVELY NUMB stores their makeup in an old toolbox

4:32 pm: LOVELY NUMB Actor China Starshine (of Portland band SexyWaterSpiders) lights a blunt. 

LOVELY NUMB

Meanwhile: MAN VS FILM actor Timothy Levine looks lost somewhere on the streets of Portland

Timothy Levine of MAN VS FILM

 

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