They Hunger

There's an online video contest for Home Run Inn Pizza, they are looking for Halloween themed short films (commercials) under 2 minutes. I've had an idea for a script, but we've been unable to commit to it (or any other script), personal life keeps getting in the way!! It really would be my dream to do film and special effects all day, every day, but now I have to settle for hobby in addition to work, school, wife, and all other issues that seem to crop up almost monthly.

Anyways, the script stars a couple in a car driving down a dark moonlit road with the forest on each side. Without going into details, basically they are stalked by a killer Home Run Inn Pizza box with murderous intent.

The couple, is going to have to be me and my wife. So how do we film this? It's going to be tricky but I have some ideas. We are going to use green screen and separately shot footage to composite onto the windows to give the effect of the car being driven. I will use previously shot footage of a random car (needs to be somewhat similar to mine, but doesn't need to be me). Since we won't be driving, I will be able to tripod the camera outside the car to film us acting. And then composite separate keyed footage of a Homerun Inn Pizza box in various places, like slamming up against the window in pure psycho killer fasion.

I've got a script and a shot list, all I need now is the time to film it all, probably try to do it this Sunday. This will be my first lone-production, but I don't really enjoy being on this end of pre-production, I just like being in post and helping out during production. But $2,500 grand prize is just too tempting to pass up, and it will be a great test of all this new camera equipment.