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Thanks to everyone that showed up at the 48 Hour Film Project screening in support of our film "Thorskin".

Ted, thanks for representing up on stage!

We were expecting to wow people with the humor and music from our film, but we apparently wowed some people with our costumes and cinematics, which was unexpected. I don't know if there's an award for that, but who knows, maybe that will get us into the Best Of showing.

Kudos to everyone that helped with the props and wardrobe, and Kudos to Russ, our director, for having such a grand vision.

I have to tell you, when Russ suggested Barbarian film (apparently, he's been wanting to do a barbarian film for quite some time), I said, "That sounds, Cool, Russ. My only concern is costumes."

He had a two word answer. "Loin cloths."

You may have recognized the robes from our "Jack Murphy vs. Gridlock" film two years ago. Well, thanks go to Donovan for owning those robes and 90% of the weapons that were used. Donovan was officially our props master for having so many of the required props.

Glen and Christina, in charge of props and wardrobe, brought the rest of the weapons, and most of the wardrobe.

Glen fashioned the Elf Lord's bow out of wood molding from his garage, wire, and kite string. I was very impressed, and I was happy to hold the bow all day and sling it across my back.

The Elf Costume was pretty simple. It was this very gaudy green fabric with gold thread. The main piece was a large rectangle, with a hole cut in the center for my head to go through. A long, thin piece acted as a sash and held it together, so it resembled a tunic. A piece of cheap costume jewelry around my waist added some sparkle. One of Donovan's daggers had a shoe string tie, which I fastened to the sash. Green tights, bought just for me, finished up the costume.

Shena's costume showed up on set as a few rolls of black pleather. I heard someone say something about stapling it together, but as it turned out, my wife, our assistant director, hand sewed the costume together with needle and thread, over top a black bikini, which Shena owned. One of Sheena's necklaces finished up the costume.

There were some questions about our Assistant Director being missing for long periods of time, but apparently, she was hard at work, helping to fashion the costumes as they were needed.

Our wizard wore one of the robes, adorned with one of Sheena's necklaces. The staff was crafted by Glen and Christina from a piece of bamboo, some wire, wood glue, and an ashtray.

Veesa's bikini-like costume was fashioned out of white pillow cases, again hand sewn on location.

Thorskin's costume was Ted's own T-shirt fashioned into a loin cloth. He had some rubber, belt thing, with a skull face, around his waist. I have no idea where that came from originally, but it was in the box that Christina and Glen brought. The helmet also looked hand crafted. One of the horns kept falling off, but this was finally fixed with a phillips screwdriver for the pickup shot that we did Sunday.

The barbarians' leggings showed up as pieces of fabric, with elastic ties, which needed to each be sewn on.

One of the funniest moments ... Shawn, a local actor from Columbus, whom played one of the henchmen, has a considerable amount of body hair, which fit the movie perfectly. The director saw him putting on one of the faux-fur leggings, and called out to him. "Is that fur?" Embarrased, Shawn said, "Oh...Yeah." Then he realized that we weren't actually picking on him and replied, "Oh! You mean the leggings!"

Twine was used to secure the henchmens' leggings and add effect. We did the same for my bracer, which was just another piece of the green fabric.

The evil warlord's mask was made out of a black pillow case, which our PA ran out and picked up.

The rest of the loin cloths were fashioned on set from black sheet-like fabric (it may have even been a sheet).

Donovan, apparently, a renascence festival guy, brought his own costume.

We shot the acution seen first, but we didn't get started until around noon. It got too dark, and we had to come back and shoot a scene on Sunday. That's the penalty we paid for our wardrobe. So, I'm glad people were impressed.

-- Marcus (Executive Producer, Writer, Editor for "Thorskin")