Way back in May I got invited by one Michelle, my friend Lisa's friend, to be in a video she was making for cinematography class. It was a Sherlock Holmes parody -- a murder-mystery/comedy -- and I was asked to play Dr. Watson. After a productive afternoon and night, we were supposed to do a little more shooting a few days later, but that didn't happen. Finally last week I got the call to be in it again. I thought that the coming hurricane would ruin the weather, but we went ahead with it anyway and the weather cooperated nicely.

Lisa, however, was not invited back. Her three roles were filled (reluctantly) by Michelle's sister. So we had to reshoot many scenes, but not all of them. Under my costume, I wore the same outfit as last time in case that was going to happen. We did some of the daytime scenes, and for lunch we decided to go to Subway. I had the idea of going there in character and filming it. So we did. In the car we sang along to "Bohemian Rhapsody" on the radio. It might be the intermission. After eating lunch we filmed the final scene, where the culprit is revealed. We also filmed two alternate endings with different people as the killer. Eventually we finished all of the daytime scenes we needed to do. So we had to wait hours for it to get dark so we could do the nighttime scenes that remained. The day's shooting took 10 hours to complete, but we finished the whole movie.

During the day I found out that Michelle had made a trailer for the movie out of the original (May) footage. Apparently everyone had seen it but me (I go to a different school from the rest of them). So we watched it. It looked pretty good, especially because it was presented as a darker, more dramatic film. The title is The Killer That Kills. Actually, it's something like Sherlock Holmes and the Mystery of the Killer That Kills. I'm going to get a copy when she's done with it. I'll try to put in available online if I get permission and figure out how. Michelle said she's going to submit it to a film festival (obviously not one of those real ones, but an amateur/teenage one).

Well, because of the Hurricane, we're not going to have school tomorrow or Tuesday. I hope the hurricane isn't really bad. I don't want to lose electricity!

Slow motion video clips of all sorts of things.

List of films that have been considered the worst ever. I hope The Killer That Kills doesn't make the list.