48 hour film challenge!

Just finished shooting a movie short for the 48 hour film challenge. For those of you who are not familiar, this is a local film competition and it goes like this. Yesterday at 5:30pm, 33 different teams were given a genre, a prop that must be used in the film and a line of dialogue. The film has to be written, filmed, edited and completed in 48 hours.

Filming got started earlier today. I'm on a team with Synthetic Human Pictures working with director Stephen Krystek. I had not met Stephen before filming today. I got his info from another actor, Patti Tindall, who I had worked with before. I sent him my demo and resume and he told me that he'd like me on his team. Networking pays off!

Call time for cast was 6AM!! Our short is called "Tip Jar" and it's a comedy. It's a story about two coffee shop waitresses who flirt with customers to get the most tips. I play an unsuspecting doctor in the coffee shop.. I felt good about my performance. In fact, if it comes off as well as I think it did, I think I'll be able to add a good comedic clip to my demo reel. Booyeah!

Filming got off to a rough start.. so, one of the lead actresses doesn't show up! I think she got hammered last night or got thrown in jail or something. I'm not really sure. Anyway, we all knew it was going to be hard to find a replacement on such short notice especially since most every other actress is working on other teams! So, I asked the director if I should call a friend of mine, Geeta, who was a drama major but hadn't acted since college! The director gave me the A-OK and I called my friend at 7AM (and she is not a morning person plus she went out the night before). She said she was free and came to the shoot! Long story short, she came to the shoot and knocked it out of the park! The directors loved her work.. Quite a fortuitous turn of events! Geeta really seemed to enjoy her time filming. In fact, she was still shooting when I wrapped as she had a lead role in the short! Crazy, huh!

Well, even though filming ended today, still need to do ADR tomorrow. I've never done ADR so I don't know what it's like. Seems like it would be a pain in the ass but I'm looking forward to the experience!

Anyone out there have ADR experience? How was it?