48 Hour Film Festival

After watching the 48 Hour Film Festival go by the last couple of years, I was asked by a former boss to participate. I’m sure I scared him off a bit as I was a little too enthusiastic when he asked me, but I felt like it was a great time to do it.  As you can see from my video page, I consider film a serious hobby, but nothing that warrants worldwide acclaim.

To start, we picked the genre ‘Romance.’ I’m thinking, “OK, this isn’t too bad, since it could have been worse with a musical, and I’m guessing by our team of 6, that we might have had a tough time pulling it off. Absolutely none of us had previously participated from our team, nor had we worked together in any lengthy amount of time together, so part of the initial time was just getting used to pushing each other around a bit. I’m a firm believer of speaking your opinion, getting things out in the open, because we have zero time to screw around. We met up around 8pm on Friday night, and agreed on an idea by midnight, while flushing out a few of the details. We didn’t do much of a script, as we decided we would do that on the fly as we’re shooting. Saturday night ended around 1:30 wth most of us agreeing that we would finish in plenty of time before the deadline the next day.

Saturday morning started early, with everyone meeting at my condo around 8am. I was able to shed my inhibitions and go topless for one of the scenes! Acting baby. We ended up shooting about 12 hours on Saturday, and heading out to Lakeville to work on the sound around 10:30 pm.

Sunday started off somewhat slow, with one last scene to shoot, then heading out to Eden Prairie to handle effects, and compile all of the footage. We thought we would have plenty of time to color correct, which wasn’t the case at all. Rendering took the most time, with most of us twiddling our thumbs while the severs took their time. We ended u handing the final product just minutes before the 7:30pm deadline.

The whole experience was definitely worth it, as I made some new friends and got to work with some interactive folk to boot.

For now, you can view a cut of the actual film we handed in. I will be posting a color corrected version soon.