JPNor
Shared on Fri, 06/27/2014 - 09:49This past weekend I participated in a 48 Hour Film Project. It is a competition where teams are assigned a film genre at random, told to incorporate certain elements (a prop, a character, and line of dialogue) and then given 48 hours to make a movie.
I connected with a team led by a former coworker, and I was the principal photographer and editor. Over the entire weekend I slept for maybe 6 hours total, otherwise fueled by Dunkin Donuts, adrenaline, and the immense pressure of meeting our deadline.
The film genre we pulled was "Silent Film". At first we lamented this idea because it is our first-ever attempt at this challenge, and Silent Film sounded like it could have been a very tough genre. However we came up with a story that worked well without any dialogue, figured out how to add our required elements, and created a film.
A couple random pics from the last few days:
Shooting a scene. I'm the tubby guy with the camera.
Our lead actor, director, and me at the premiere screening on Wednesday night. The most rewarding part of the experience was seeing my work on the same movie screen where I saw Avatar, in front of a full theater.
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Submitted by DEEP_NNN on Fri, 06/27/2014 - 16:56
Very nice. It had my attention all the way through.
You guys painted a fairly scary scenario. I was a little nervous.
I hope, had it been real, I would have called 911 and then waited for assistance. But that's a story for another day. :)
Submitted by Blackblade on Sun, 06/29/2014 - 20:20
I thought this was pretty cool, it had a 'Tales From the Dark Side' feel to it.
Submitted by JPNor on Mon, 06/30/2014 - 09:44
Thanks for the feedback! This being our first go, I'm not expecting to win any big awards but now we know how to make the next project better. Relative to calling 911 you're right on the money - our original story incorporated a close-up shot of the protagonist pulling out his cell phone and seeing that it has no signal. It just didn't fit into the linear progression of the story, so we ended up not shooting those scenes.
In the original script the protagonist also fell into the river while running back to the car. Just more salt in the wound of his shitty day. Unfortunately we also had to abandon that idea when we ran out of sunlight, but we left in some of the "hints" that it was going to happen - the sinister looking tree roots at the edge of the waterline, and several close up shots of his feet.