Alien births, symphonic eruptions, vinyl couch aphrodisiacs, intergallactic battles between good and evil... and Prince!Our very first event was the DIY Movie Afternoon, held on March 14, 2009. It was essentially an experiment in community based DIY movie making and an excuse to enjoy the experience of creating and watching a movie as a community and not as a consumer.
Following the BKR protocol developed by Michel Gondry, 19 of us packed into the tiny headquarters and worked together to create a movie from scratch in two and a half hours.
No preplanned ideas were allowed, although each participant was encouraged to bring a prop along. In two 45 minute workshops the group democratically voted on each aspect of the movie's creation. Genre was decided upon first, and from that a title for the movie was chosen. Plot lines were then brainstormed and composed into scenes. With 19 people this was no small feat to accomplish within the time-restraints.
With the skeleton of our movie mapped out, we were allowed only 1 hour to film the entire movie. Everyone had to appear at least once on screen. Scenes were shot in sequence and in single takes. This was deliberately done to avoid perfectionism, as perfectionism is the enemy of creativity!
We successfully managed to complete our filming with 1 minute to spare and ended the afternoon with our own private screening of our freshly completed movie 'Moonbox Benjamin: An Interstellar Symphony'.
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