Campaign Fame

In 2004, fellow editor, Sean McGovern and myself entered the Fast Forward Film Fest. It was a 24 hour filmmaking contest sponsored by the folks at Atomix Cafe in Wicker Park. Each event they would announce a theme followed by a curveball given the initial night of the contest to ensure that people couldn't pre-conceive their piece in any way. For this event the theme was "Fame" and the curveball was that you had to use footage in some way off a DVD provided to us by the wranglers of the event. 

The DVD provided, featured random footage of two men from NYC who had come to Chicago to witness the orchestration of this event, hoping to start a similar contest back at home. The Fast Forward people thought it would be fun to include them someway into the event itself. We did too. 

What follows is our video, which took first place, and shows exactly how we incorporated the footage we got into the theme of "fame." Try to imagine what these guys from NY must've thought as they saw this at the screening.