Hitch Hikers Memoir
This project is based off of a true story. A cousin of mine named Sam Compton and his friend Paul Birch.
The idea came to me when Sam happen to be passing through town. One night we sat chatting over a glass of wine and cheese and he shared with me a book he had been working on.
He had found his journal from 1992 of the time in his life when he had made the decision to take off Hitch Hiking to Alaska with his friend Paul Birch at the age of seventeen. He told me as he read the pages, he felt inspired to make it into a book, so he began the arduous task of transcribing it digitally.
It took him back into that time and gave him a chance to see things though the eyes of a seventeen year old. He is now 39, with a 18 year old son of his own.
As we made our way through the pages I was dying laughing at some of the crazy things that happened to them and that they saw. I was immediately inspired to bring his story to life. I asked if he would mind if I used some of his adventures to make a short film out of. It seemed like the next appropriate step for such a story.
Once I finally decided on which exert to take from the book, I began the process of transferring it into script form so that I could more easily visualize what it would take to re create the events.
For reference the software that I have found very helpful in doing this or writing any script for that matter is Celtx.
When I had a script I presented it to my short films class and so we began.
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