"The Shaft" resulted from a last minute attempt for the 48 hr film project in St. Louis. The objective: Write, Shoot and Edit a screenplay between four and seven minutes long in a 48 hour time frame. The production had to meet the criteria provided, Character, Prop, and mandatory lines of dialogue provided at the kickoff, as well as a random drawing for a Genre.

Our random genre was Suspense/Triller, the character name was "Ashton Brown", who was an "expert". The prop: a "picture of mom or dad". The line requirement: "Have you ever seen anything like it?" .

Due to our loss of half or our anticipated production crew, our team, Screamin' Video used our limited resources stagger into the competition with a "go for it" attitude. We were joined by a talented cast organized on the fly by Sandy Leight and Toni's International. Screaming Video consisted of a team that never worked together before. and In spite of the faulty lighting equipment and sound foreign sound equipment we wound down the shooting at approximately 32 hours into the project.

It was an interesting and challenging project. With our resources thinned, we were unable to have the project finished with all of the signed legal releas documentation required in the project rules.

Thanks to all cast and crew who participated.

Special thanks to Jim, Steve Rausch, Dan Tuck, Richard Kasprzyk and Dan Buescher