Monday, May 16, 2005
48 HOURS FILM FEST IS A MEMORY. . .
i sit here in mild pain and exhaustion on a monday morning. not my normal state i assure you but instead brought on by the hectic fun filled weekend that is the New Zealand 48 Hours Film Festival where participants have to conceive, write, shoot, edit, and hand in a completed film all within a 48 hour time period.
there are some interesting rules for this competition:
1. you don't get your film genre until the evening the event kicks off.
2. you have to include a specified prop somewhere in your film: in our case, a banana.
3. you have to include a specified character, this year it was 'Bodil De Rezney, animal lover'
4. you have to include a specified line of dialogue, this year it was 'please, don't do that'
we had a large team of brilliant people (roughly 20) to help out with the various endeavors that a musical (our randomly chosen genre-thank you) can only bring about. wrap it all in a subtle theme about beastiality (that wasn't really our choice, i mean, take a look at those rules and what would you come up with?) then ask the actors to sing their lines. the only thing you're missing from actually being there would be the physical pain from standing and holding a boom mic over your head for 15 hours and the putrid smell of a cod fish head.
they'll start screening all the entries later this week and i plan on going to all five or six evenings of these films to see what the other teams came up with. sure, ours lacked a few music tracks, some sound effects and a few graphics that had they been included, would have made the film that much stronger...but the judges won't really know that they're missing so it'll be alright. at least we got our film turned in with 7 minutes to spare. imagine going hard out all weekend on an endeavor like this and then rushing it into town to drop it off at the theater only to find out you are 17 seconds late and you can not submit your film. that team hit one too many red lights. all in all, i'm pretty stoked on the experience and i'm glad i participated. i met some really cool people and had a great weekend going nuts with the rest of the crew. it's amazing what can be accomplished when a group of people are given a harsh deadline and a few rules to follow. try it sometime...it's kinda theraputic. thanks jed, darrel, james, james, paul, scott, andy, mike, hayden, sarah, sarah, marcus, and everyone else who had a hand in making that happen.
i'll be posting the two finished versions of the film when i get them from jed. one will be the version we turned in to the festival and the other will be the version we would have liked to turn in had we had a little more time. keep an eye out.
i sit here in mild pain and exhaustion on a monday morning. not my normal state i assure you but instead brought on by the hectic fun filled weekend that is the New Zealand 48 Hours Film Festival where participants have to conceive, write, shoot, edit, and hand in a completed film all within a 48 hour time period.
there are some interesting rules for this competition:
1. you don't get your film genre until the evening the event kicks off.
2. you have to include a specified prop somewhere in your film: in our case, a banana.
3. you have to include a specified character, this year it was 'Bodil De Rezney, animal lover'
4. you have to include a specified line of dialogue, this year it was 'please, don't do that'
we had a large team of brilliant people (roughly 20) to help out with the various endeavors that a musical (our randomly chosen genre-thank you) can only bring about. wrap it all in a subtle theme about beastiality (that wasn't really our choice, i mean, take a look at those rules and what would you come up with?) then ask the actors to sing their lines. the only thing you're missing from actually being there would be the physical pain from standing and holding a boom mic over your head for 15 hours and the putrid smell of a cod fish head.
they'll start screening all the entries later this week and i plan on going to all five or six evenings of these films to see what the other teams came up with. sure, ours lacked a few music tracks, some sound effects and a few graphics that had they been included, would have made the film that much stronger...but the judges won't really know that they're missing so it'll be alright. at least we got our film turned in with 7 minutes to spare. imagine going hard out all weekend on an endeavor like this and then rushing it into town to drop it off at the theater only to find out you are 17 seconds late and you can not submit your film. that team hit one too many red lights. all in all, i'm pretty stoked on the experience and i'm glad i participated. i met some really cool people and had a great weekend going nuts with the rest of the crew. it's amazing what can be accomplished when a group of people are given a harsh deadline and a few rules to follow. try it sometime...it's kinda theraputic. thanks jed, darrel, james, james, paul, scott, andy, mike, hayden, sarah, sarah, marcus, and everyone else who had a hand in making that happen.
i'll be posting the two finished versions of the film when i get them from jed. one will be the version we turned in to the festival and the other will be the version we would have liked to turn in had we had a little more time. keep an eye out.