For those not in the know, and as far as I know the few people who read this thing are in the know, the 48Hours is an event in which you make a film in 48Hours. It started out as an international event passing through New Zealand but the New Zealand bit has now branched off from the others. Basically the rules are simple, you are given just prior to starting, a randomly picked genre, a line, a character, and a prop to have in your movie, and then have exactly 48Hours to complete your movie. Not getting it in on time gets you disqualified, though you can still show your short in the heats, and not having some or all of the elements will also get you disqualified. You'll also get disqualified if your short is too short or too long. Our film last year was too long by 30Seconds so we got disqualified. Such is life.
This year we were determined to get our act together, or something, and by we I mean our director, and by get our act together I mean make us some soup. It was good soup, but I digress. Last year we had a couple problems, one of which was the two directors, the other was that I was actually the most organised person on the team and the only one that new how to hand it in. When I am the most organised person things are in a very very bad state. This year we had one director. Other things that turned out better than last year included
We finished with plenty time to spare to add the music so the music composer didn't hate us at the end.
Our plot actually makes sense to people that haven't had it explained to them beforehand.
Our lighting is a hell of a lot better.
We got a lot more sleep than last year.
On the downside we almost burned down the director's house but that's a small problem all round. We didn't get into the finals, but oh well. I had nothing to do with the writing this year, for better or worse, so don't blame me if you hate the plot, also don't praise me if you love it. (Though I don't really mind the latter)
For the crap quality Youtube version go here
1 comment:
Seems like a fairly decent short film, especially considering the small amount of time you had to make it. Unfortunately I watched on on this old laptop, which gets around 3 frames per second playing videos of YouTube. If nothing else, I at least got the jist of what was going on.
I gotta comment on the accents. Never knew how much the New Zealand accent sounds so similar to the Australian, after being around Canadians for so long. Kind of a tangent but I had to mention it.
The camera techniques, filming locations and acting were fairly good for the most part, and the script was understandable which is always nice. Got a few laughs here and there, having the girls dad as the mad scientist stereotype and the Dramatic Gopher moment when the guy uses his powers. Reminds me a little of Heroes with him having powers.
May I ask what the theme or topic was for this years 48 hours? All in all a good effort considering the time restraints. I'll have to rewatch it on a decent computer for next time.
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