One quarter of the year is almost finished. Last night we attended the final two segments of the 168 Film Festival where a short film I worked on in late February was shown. It made the top twenty films out of nearly 63 films made for this year’s competition.
Our film is titled “The Road to Asylum” and is about a group of neighborhood kids who take their bud Ben to an old abandoned asylum to ditch him there leaving him with the legendary ghost “Ole Willie J.” You know it’s one of those stories kids like to perpetrate on the innocents of the hood. Ole Willie J. was supposed to be a former resident of the asylum who hung himself and now his ghost roams the place.
The story is based on Exodus 20:12 from the Old Testament. “Honor your father and your mother, so that you may live long in the land the LORD your God is giving you.”
Our hero Ben decides that he can’t go fishing with his father that day but instead goes with his friends to explore the asylum hoping that he is accepted by the group. Ben tells his father that he has a science project due and that he needs to go work on it with them instead.
The Asylum - actually the old Marine air base in Tustin, CA.
The shoot took place over the weekend of February 23, 24, 25. Editorial followed immediately on the 26th which included capturing the footage in HD to Final Cut Pro, editing, scoring, sound efx, layoff to DV tape and delivery to the 168 Film Project Office by no later than 8 PM on February 28th.
Pacific Coast Hwy westward view 3PM March 6th
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