Content Direction · BGG Original
Proxy was created to test a simple idea: how quickly could BGG write, shoot, and finish a stylized narrative film without lowering the creative bar? The answer was less than one week.
At a Glance
Format
Original Narrative Short Film
The Experiment
From script to finished film in six days, testing how quickly a small team could move from an idea to a fully realized story without sacrificing craft.
Production
Script: 1 night
Principal Photography: 2 days
Post-production: 3 days
Creative Approach
A deliberately compressed production built around a small crew, practical decision-making and rapid collaboration from writing through final color.
Cast & Crew
Lotenna Enwonwu — Writer / Director / Producer
Khadir Freeney — Director of Photography / Editor / Color
Greg Mallette — Lead Actor / Assistant Director
Arianna McPherson — Supporting Actress
Business Context
The film was intentionally built as a rapid-turnaround creative exercise. Lotenna wrote the story in one night. Production was completed over two shoot days. Editing, post-production, and color were completed in three days. The goal was not simply to make a short film. It was to demonstrate what a focused BGG team could accomplish when strategy, creative direction, production, and post were tightly aligned.
Story
Proxy follows Greg, a young in-house editor trapped overnight at a creative studio after discovering corrupted footage just hours before a major deadline. As pressure, fatigue, and self-doubt build, his environment begins to distort. Masks seem to whisper, the timeline appears to fight back, and the room itself becomes part of his unraveling. The production treatment describes the final moment not as triumph, but as something earned: a completed cut, a quiet release, and survival of the night.
Challenge
Create a short film with enough visual and narrative ambition to demonstrate BGG’s filmmaking ability while completing the entire process in less than one week.
That required making every creative choice work within a single location, a small team, and an extremely compressed production schedule.
Insight
The emotional center of the film is not corrupted footage.
It is imposter syndrome.
Proxy explores the stress, pressure, fatigue, and self-doubt that can come with being an in-house editor when the work is due, the clock is moving, and the person expected to solve the problem begins questioning whether they can.
Strategy & Creative Approach
The film uses stylized realism and surreal visual interruptions to make Greg’s internal pressure visible.
The production book defines the visual language around:
isolation
pressure
craft
self-doubt
redemption
night rhythm
The camera was designed to move between locked symmetry, negative space, distorted lenses, close detail, overhead perspectives, slow pushes, and more aggressive movement as Greg’s anxiety intensifies.
Lighting and color were similarly tied to the character’s mental state, moving from controlled practical sources toward more exaggerated shifts, flickers, and saturated accents as reality begins to bend.
Capture
Begin with an original idea and a hard constraint: take a narrative short from concept to a complete first cut in six days.
Curate
Shape the story around the cast, locations, resources, and time available, keeping only what the film truly needs.
Construct
Write the script overnight, shoot for two days, then move directly into three days of post-production, bringing performance, cinematography, editing, and color together.
Circulate
Bring the film, presentation, and audience strategy together so the story is ready to live beyond the production that created it.
The Work
Writing
Original screenplay written in one night.
Production
Two-day shoot at BGG Studio.
Direction
A contained performance built around psychological pressure and visual escalation.
Cinematography
Practical-motivated lighting, negative space, stylized lenses, macro detail, symmetry, and deliberate camera movement.
Editing
Screen cuts, jump cuts, sound-bridged transitions, and pacing designed to move between reality and Greg’s increasingly distorted state.
Color
A contrast-rich palette built around BGG’s visual language and used to track Greg’s emotional arc.
Outcome
An original narrative short was written, produced, shot, edited, and finished in less than one week.
The project proves speed, alignment, and filmmaking craft.
