Shya Scanlon

A couple of years ago, I was at work, copywriting my little heart out, when a coworker named Matt Daniels asked me, out of the blue, if I’d be interested in writing a script for a short film contest. I said I’d never written a screenplay. He said I had two weeks. I said sure. In the following two weeks, I squeezed a screenplay out of the book I was then writing, Forecast, which, though still unfinished, contained some stuff I thought would work well visually. I had to make some pretty significant changes, and try to round out an end that wasn’t in any way part of the book, but with Matt’s great feedback and patience I turned out something that actually made our little project one of four finalists.
Point is, Matt and some of his friends put together a little teaser video to show during the final round of judging as a kind of proof of concept. They made it in a single afternoon. We didn’t end up winning–largely because the judges thought the thing was overly ambitious, and the person who’d won the year before had embarrassed everyone involved by dropping the ball on a similarly ambitious plan–but the promo video is actually really neat. You can see it here.

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