The 48 Hour Film Project is an excellent, wild, and stressful experience for filmmakers. This competition gives you 48 hours (one weekend) to write, shoot, edit, and turn in your completed film. On a Friday night team leaders and contest orchestrator gather together at a single location where the teams find out their required character, job title, line of dialogue, prop, and genre.
Drawn from a hat our team received the genre, Dark Comedy. Our other required elements were:
Character - Andy Sterling, Journalist
Line of Dialogue - "Say it like you mean it!"
Prop - Fast Food Package of Ketchup or Mustard
We gathered a large group of extremely talented film students. 15 of us set out to dominate the 48 in what would be everyone's first attempt at the contest. We originally planned to work in shifts, allowing people to sleep in turns. That plan quickly changed as everyone's adrenaline began to surge in anticipation of completing this project in time. We finished our script at 11p.m. Friday night and prepared to film.
Here are a few select photo's from that weekend.
More behind the scenes photo's can be found on my Facebook page by clicking HERE.
We were unsuccessful in turning the film in time by the 7:30p.m. deadline. We arrived at the drop off location 5minutes late which meant our film would be screened but not be qualified to win any awards other than the audience favorite.
Over all the experience was very rewarding it showed everyone involved what we could really do in such a short amount of time. It was my first time as a UPM (Unit Production Manager) and sparked my interest in becoming a possible Producer in future projects.
I hope you enjoy:
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