CRUMPLE OR FOLD

This is the only short I directed at film school that I'm willing to show. The other ones are far too cringe to give a spotlight, even a decade later. This was for a class where I had to make a short film using reflections. I don't remember why - it could simply be because of procrastination - but the entire thing happened in one day. I asked a friend of mine to write me a script about some kind of drug deal that goes down inside a car in parking lot at night so I could shoot through the mirrors. I loved the script because I was afraid of getting into the nuances of drug deals which I had no context for and was afraid it would be ridiculous. Ironic, because it is undoubtedly ridiculous, but in a good way, not a trying-to-be-sincere-and-failing way. Anyways, he wrote the script - I think during whatever morning class he had that day - then gave it to me around noon. Then I contacted two actors that I had their info for and asked if they were available that night. I rounded up a couple friends to run sound and move some lights around and pulled my car into my backyard once it got dark and started shooting. I had our school's Red One camera because I was ACing on a larger student-project the next day. We shot about 10 different setups, ran through the script one take per setup, wrapped, I stayed up all night editing, and then presented it in the morning and went off to the other shoot in the afternoon. I probably got a solid B.