A few weekends ago, I once again fielded a team for the 48 hour film project. For those who don’t know what that is, it is a worldwide film competition where teams create a movie entirely over a 48 hour weekend. Doesn’t sound that difficult right? The catch is that they give you a genre, line of dialog, character (with occupation) and a prop that you have to use in the movie and you don’t find out those details until 7pm on Friday night and you have to turn in a complete 4-7 minute movie by 7pm on Sunday night.
There is only so much pre-planning you can do like finding locations, lining up cast and crew and gathering music and the rest has to happen beginning at 7pm on Friday night. Over the 48 hours, you have to be able to write, shoot, edit, score, color and output your movie. It is a fast paced and exciting weekend of film making for sure and every year I have done it, I have wished for more time as the clock ran down. Below is the link to the movie after we did a little sweetening:
http://vimeo.com/27791619
