Blind Date
Silent black&white 16mm film (2')
In-camera editing
With Robert Pratt, Sean Travers, Tleytmas Stephenson, David Planchon and Stéphanie Vacher
Directed by BQT in Bloomington (Indiana, USA) in October 1997
Download the film at http://php.indiana.edu/~rpratt (my friend Rob's personal homepage)
SYNOPSIS
Bob wants to get some extra pocket money. He goes to the park and sits on the grass, pretending to be blind. As someone throws him some coin a bit too far from where he actually sits, he spontaneously moves to catch it and reveals the whole deceit. As a result, he gets hit. Then he is brought round by some nice girl... who turns out to be nothing but the fruit of his imagination. The reality is else indeed: it's just some common guy. As he finds out, Bob collapses again...
THE CAST
Robert Pratt (Bob) is a senior business student at Indiana University.
Sean Travers (the angry man) is a junior student in law at IU.
Tleytmas Stephenson (the dream girl) is a 1st-year MBA student at Indiana University.
David Planchon (the common guy) is an IEP student at Indiana University.
Stéphanie Vacher (the hand) is 3rd-year student at Rouen Graduate School of Management (France).
PRODUCTION NOTES
Blind Date is a camera exercise that was meant to enable the director to test her ability to handle the camera and experience a first 16mm-shooting -so don't pay too much attention to the screenplay!...
And I had fun indeed coping with the heavy equipment, the burning sun and friends from the cast!
The shooting turnt to yield one casualty: Rob, who got sunburnt after he spent a couple of hours sitting on the grass under the heavy sun as the fake beggar he was acting.
However, the film didn't seem to turn too bad according to the critics:
"Excellent camera exercise, technically as well as in presenting a whole story. Great visually imaginative shots, especially the shot with the coin from the cup's point of view, the subjective point of view and the canted angles. Sometimes your camera angles don't match well and you run out of wind." (Susanne Schwibs, Motion Picture Production course teacher at IU)
"Good use of camera angles (canted frame, cup scene), cool credit effect, good in-camera editing, pans a little rough, little overexposed in places..." (The Motion Picture Production class)
© BQT - May 1998