Flashback on “Fortapt” (2006)
Posted on January 22, 2010
Yesterday I started to clean up all the files on my old Imac, and after looking through some of them, I found several episodes of a TV-series I made in 2006-2007. I was still studying at High School when I first had the idea of a TV-series about some teenagers that got enlisted in to the military. I got some inspiration from a war film called “Tears of the sun”, and I knew at this point, that this was the kind of film I wanted to make. Luckily enough, I got this opportunity during High School, when we had a project that lasted one month. Even though I knew to little about how long this TV-series would take to create, I started writing a script. I thought that if this project would last longer than the month I had to do the project at school, I would even do it. If I first started a big film project, I wouldn’t give up before it was completely done!
After one year and two months, my TV-series, “Fortapt” (”Doomed/Lost”), was finished. It consisted of four episodes with a total lenght of two hours. I had used 12 000kr (2000$) in budget, and over 40 friends and family were involved in this project. Most of them were actors, but some were also helping with scenery, sound-recording, music and assistant camera. “Fortapt” had a successful premiere at the local cinema in October 2007, were over 100 people came to watch.
For more information about “Fortapt”, click here (Norwegian page)
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