My latest film project (3rd place, STL 48 hour film project)

Here's the film that my crew and I made for the 48 hour film project a couple weekends ago.

https://www.youtube.co​m/watch?v=35DvDRfKkTo

This Wednesday at the "best of" showing/awards ceremony, we were awarded "Audience Choice" for our group of 10 films, "Best Directing," and 3rd place overall out of 50+ teams. The two teams that beat us were made up of members of high-end commercial production houses in St. Louis, so I ain't even mad :bouncy:

To make this film, we had to write, shoot, and edit a film in 48 hours, starting on Friday night, and turn in a complete 4-7 minute film on Sunday night. At the kick off, we drew out of a hat for our assigned genre (fish out of water), and were told the required elements for our film. We had to include a character (Ted or Tess Brookings, a building contractor), a prop (a ball), and a line of dialogue ("it's not what you think it is").

I did the lighting design, made the credits, helped dress the set, and helped behind the camera.

I hope you enjoy it!

Hey Jayson, I didn't realize just how dangerous contracting really is. I thoroughly enjoyed the movie. You guys did a great job. It must have been a frantic shoot with such little time. I wish I could see the "making of". Again I really liked it and thanks for posting it. Joe D.

Hey Joe, thank you! It was a ton of fun to shoot like it is every year (this was my 5th 48 film contest), and we almost got a bit too ambitious; we loaded it onto a flash drive, drove to the delivery point, and turned it in a whopping 8 minutes before the cutoff!

I wish we had a BTS video like we do with some of our other projects, but like you said it was way too frantic to do anything extra! I do have some stills to share from the day, but not many since I was running around like a headless chicken that day. once I get them edited, I'll post them here.

I'm about to do my first 48 this coming weekend!

TTGator wrote in post #16974554
I'm about to do my first 48 this coming weekend!

have fun man! This was my fifth 48, and that is the most important thing I can tell you. If you're not having fun while you shoot it, or you're shooting something you don't like, it will definitely show in the end result.

also, pre-render everything you can so you don't get screwed. one year I had to run three stoplights and drive 70+ in a residential area just to get the film turned in with less than a minute left.

Ok here was our first attempt at this... We got screwed and drew "Silent Film" so we returned it for a shot at a wildcard genre... only to be rewarded with "Animal Film". Suck. So we essentially have no story, but I won Best Cinematography! Second thing I'd ever shot, so I'll take it

Praey

that's really good, man!

steelbluesleepr wrote in post #17048380
that's really good, man!

Thanks! We took your advice and had fun

was the effect in the first-person view from the "animal" done with a tilt-shift lens or in post?

Also, congrats on the "best cinematography" and actually earning it. the one that won in our city looked like absolute **** (very bland, no color correction, etc), but they used a DJI Phantom for at least half of their shots and must have dazzled the judges that don't keep up on filming technology. There were several other films that looked much better.

The effect was done in post. We just lowered the saturation and put a vignette blur around the edges. Supposedly similar to how lions actually see.

Haha thanks! Yeah we were one of two that used a Phantom, but I thought the other guys were going to win it as they had a really long continuous shot with a steadicam. But watching theirs a second time, there really wasn't all that much to it other than using those tools.

Oh, and I was astounded at how many entries were downright terrible. Like how I expect a film of mine would look if I filmed it when I was in high school with my dad's old camcorder.

And I was even MORE surprised how many of THOSE made it to the "Best Of" screening.

I guess I should have known when we turned ours in on a USB thumb drive and the guy copying it off onto his computer was shocked at how large the file was. 4.5GB for a 5 and a half minute film. I thought it was normal. Lol.