<human>: Give me the gist of the text in a nutshell

For clarification, it's a contest where you show up at a location and they person in charge gives you a location to be featured in your short film, a prop that needs to be featured and you draw for a genre in which to shoot the film.

Last week I knew I was going to be entering so I asked a bunch of my friends ahead of time if they'd help by acting or working on crew. About 12 of them agreed and we made plans. Last night as I waited for the promised 12 to show up, only two actually did. So I did what any normal person would and tried to get a hold of them. All of my efforts were failures, no amount of phone calls would get them to answer and no amount of Facebook messages succeeded. 

So my two friends and I went up to our school campus and walked through the place while trying what to do when we came across four of the 12 sitting around and we asked them if they were going to help. Their response was, "No, we have thing's we're doing." 

I brushed it off and figured okay well maybe they did and just didn't know how to tell me. After about another half hour of trying to reach people and find back ups we came across the group again, this time more of the 12 were with them and they were all sitting around playing card games.

I didn't even bother saying anything more than hi and walking away since I figured their actions had spoken loud enough, I wasn't worth their time or effort.

After a few more hours of rethinking our plans and trying to find backup actors and crew, we realized we had to concede and drop out of the contest.
<bot>: My friends made plans with me, backed out by avoiding talking to me and forced me to drop out of a contest I was registered to compete in.