Love at First assault

This was the second Project I did during the film making Workshop back in the summer of 2005. It was during the second week of class. The rule was that in a minute or so We had to use as many cuts as possible to tell a story with no jumps in places or in time.

I thought of many stories and I still have them written somewhere (I’ll probably use them next year when I go to study there again) The Reason I chose to film this one in particular, was that I couldn’t find any actors for the day I had to shoot the film!!! I finally found two that could only work with me in the morning and for just one hour. You might think “1 hour? For 1 minute film? That’s a lot!”… But No, You are wrong….One hour was a really short time to do it. If you count that in each take You have to measure light, measure the camera distance and rehearse with the actors, 1 hour becomes a really short time…anyway I managed to do it and The professor really like it. I kind of used American humor on it, so all my classmates laughed with it. I still remember what the professor told me “you got an audience response in just 1 minute! That’s good!”


The actress in this short film is named Marissa Morris. I think She now has a tv program in a local network in Florida and Ryan Conroy is a Guest service manager in Orlando. ( I think I saw him once in the Magic Kingdom) He is not a professional actor, He is just an amateur who likes to act.
I remember we shot the slap take around 5 times. Ryan’s cheek was really red, but well “Pain is temporary, Films are forever” Also I remember that the film broke while we were shooting because it was too tight haha…Thank God It didn’t affect what I had already shot.