"Gambit" WITH Director/Editor Commentary - 48 Hour Film Festival, Nashville 2010

Piping Hot Pics' Editor Carson Parks (sparksfly1212) and Writer/Director Robert Brown discuss some of what went into the making of "Gambit", a 48 Hour Film Festival, Nashville 2010 submission. Check out the comments section below for even more of the story we couldn't fit into a 7:18 minute VO recap under picture.

See the film first @ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KfAuWQO6S6g in all of its 720p HD glory (we shot it in 1080, but can't yet figure out how to get the right compression settings to upload without it being too large)

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• 48
• 48 Hour Film
• Nashville
• 2010
• Commentary
• Film Commentary
• Carson Parks
• Robert Brown
• Gambit

[jrb90046]

More on: Script Development

The first draft of the script had Jeanine's character describing what she had seen during the first chess match (and as a clue to her present strategy with the psychologist, as we find later:) as a "Rope-a-dope" . Jory K. made me aware (at 5am Sat. morn) that I was mixing my metaphors (boxing in a chess context) and that the "Gambit" was a perfectly appropriate substitute. Duh -Much more powerful! - RB

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More on: Script Development

After sending out a half-done script version out to Cast and Crew with some explanation so everyone could get a sense of where it was going late Fri, Maria Novak -our Prod. Manager- immediately began researching famous classic "quick finishing" chess matches and found one that became the set-up and move sequence for the two games that take place in the film- RB