Budding filmmakers

When I got up this morning, I was a bit surprised to find Paddy and Sascha wide awake and obviously ready for action. Somehow they ended up signing up to take part in a competition that involves making a short film within 36 hours on a certain theme, and they were just waiting to be given their theme. That was a few hours ago. In the meantime an impressive crowd of actors has arrived at our house.

To be precise, there are teenagers EVERYWHERE. Some of them have been equipped with the black clothes that Director Paddy has decreed everyone should wear, others have taken over the kitchen to make tea and coffee and whatever else they can find, others have occupied the balcony and are busy filling up the ashtrays outside. Others are in front of various computers and examining cameras and recording equipment.

As Peter pointed out, for someone who until recently only had exactly one friend (and Vedad, loyal and patient as ever, was one of the first to show up), collecting a crowd of friends this size this quickly is an impressive achievement.

As far as I understand it, this film is somehow to involve having all these people walking along somewhere and eventually sending Sascha into the Danube. I am very curious to see how this is going to work and what kind of a film they may be able to come up with.

In the meantime I will just sit here quietly in a corner trying to stay out of the way until they start filming and everything is quiet again – at least briefly.