[Editor's Note: All filmmakers want to be noticed and contests are one way to make that happen. But what does it take to make a film that wins? This is part of a series of five articles that profile the winning directors of Canon's Project Imaginat10n and how they created their incredible short films. To learn more about Project Imagination, please go Here.] Writer/Director Jared Nelson didn’t kick off my his process by writing one script; he wrote six over the course of two enervating months. Still, nothing was clicking. "About a week before the deadline," he said, "my team and I sat down and went, ‘Ok, we have this robot based on the image — let’s just do this.’ So we sat there and wrote it." The resulting film, "Chucked," took eight hours to shoot, and six days to prep. The Short's Official Synopsis: In "Chucked," a book return shaped like a robot falls in love with a human girl. The Short: How He Won the Contest: Nelson went with the...
- 11/18/2013
- by Nigel M Smith
- Indiewire
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