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When tasked with researching a bill currently in congress and presenting a 30 minute presentation on it, myself, Zlatko and Aaron decided it would be a hell of a lot more fun to just make a movie. If you watch closely, you might catch about 40 seconds worth of research we actually did on the bill.
During the filming of the chase scene (physical action of a chase, not just a scene with me in it) volunteer stuntman Alex Giusto actually shattered the windshield of Zlatko's car. Luckily, no one was hurt. However, to recoup the funds needed to repair the windshield, we had no choice but to raise funds by selling $5 VHS tapes of the film. Within a few weeks, we had much of the money we needed, and Zlatko's windshield was replaced. A few weeks later his car was totaled in an accident.
Unfortunately, Zlatko decided to end his acting career, and Alex has yet to perform more stunts for film. Aaron Donovan is about the worst actor ever, so its good to know that he has been able to flourish in other aspects of life as well.
This was the first time I used a nonlinear editing system (ulead media studio) outside of school and I shot and edited everything in a few weeks. Actually I can't remember how long we spent on it, I assume I put everything off till the last minute and did it all in a few days. I had just bought a firewire card for my PC and I had never used it before. Hard to believe that this was just about the time that firewire was hitting the scene and before that doing this thing was impossible on a home computer. I also had to walk to school in the snow every day, uphill both ways. Kids today have it easy.
