We finished the 1st edit at the exact deadline for the screening, and frankly if I hadn’t been editing on FCPX, I don’t think I would have done it My friends would keep me awake by talking to me, and occasionally had to remind me where this or that button was because I couldn’t remember a thing. I remember falling asleep constantly in front of the screen. The editing was one the craziest thing I have ever done: 36 hours straight editing, with no break and no sleep. The shoot itself was fun but made in the same very limited conditions: we had only a couple of lights, the cinematographer and sound engineer had not slept at all because they had shot 2 other shorts the night before, and we had less than a day to shoot the whole story. We were calling local actors that we had never seen and who had never heard of us and asked: “do you want to act in a short the day after tomorrow?” Luckily most said yes, and I met the actors for the first time the night before the shoot for a quick rehearsal: I was very relieved to see they were so good! The event is an explosion of creativity, but as you can imagine there is almost no time to produce the films: so 2 days prior to the shoot, we still had no location and no actors! The film was shot within the Kinomada lab, an organization in Québec City which invites around 100 filmmakers with different skills (directors, actors, editors, sound engineers, etc.) and provide them with food and lodging, giving them only one objective: make shortfilms in 10 days, from writing to first cut, in a non-competitive way. I will not tell the story here, the best is that you make your own opinion! All I will say is that it is based on a true story that happened not once… not twice… but three times in different parts of the world ! Two Dollars is the second episode, and it takes a much more “daily life” approach to irony and cruelty than Sans Plomb. It was the first episode of “the office trilogy”, a series of 3 true stories that happened in an office, a collaboration with Canadian scriptwriter Guillaume Fournier. Those who have been here for a while might remember that in 2017 I posted an article about Sans Plomb (Unleaded) for its Vimeo Staff Pick. It is this week’s Vimeo Staff Pick Premiere. Two Dollars (Deux Dollars) is a Canadian/French shortfilm that has been selected in 85 festivals around the world, won 8 awards, and been broadcast on a dozen TV channels worldwide. It was edited on Final Cut Pro X on a 2013 MacBook Pro. Emmanuel Tenenbaum's excellent short film Two Dollars is this week's Vimeo Staff Pick.
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