Ben3308
Member
Hey guys! I've been a user here for a while and love reading up insightful DIY and filmmaking advice, but have never got around to posting anything, short of a few plugs for the GL2 and whatnot.
I saw a few other user threads concerning their 48 Hour Films, and thought I might as well post mine up.
My team's film is called "Marathon" and is the end product we conceived after getting stuck with the theme of 'sports'. We took it very generally, and set out to do something dramatic that would sort of stick with people. We're all teens in the 16-to-17-year-old age range, so we don't have too many resources, but we made do.
Marathon
(^click to watch^)
This film was written, shot, and edited in under 48 hours.
Shot on a Canon GL2 and edited in Vegas 6.
No adapters or anything special used.
Roughly 7 minutes in length.
I'm the cinematographer and director of this film, though nobody in my team tends to assume a written title. Luckily, though we turned this in 4 minutes late (the drop-off for the contest was 28 miles out of the city it was supposed to be based in) we still received a Best of City nomination, were awarded the Audience Award, and got to talk to the local reps about it showing other places. So it didn't end up all bad!
Some stills:
The film suffered from a bunch of issues during its production, including multiple visits by the police (who kindly asked us to leave several locations), a visit by the entire fire department, and a main actor pulling a life-threatening hernia on the first day of shooting. As with most filmmakers, these are all punches that one must roll with- especially during timed contests- so I'm not making excuses, just putting some things into perspective. We wanted to go very 'out there' and experimental with our filmmaking, and I think that came through. Some of the storytelling may seem contrived; this is likely because we had to change a great deal of the script last-minute due to the hernia issue with the main character.
Another few things about the film are the shots of the city and early-morning shots (once you watch the movie, that is) are meant to be references to the past, as part of parallel storytelling. A few people in the original audience didn't get this. Being a new city for the 48 hour project (Dallas) we were required to have at least one cityscape shot in there, so that's where the shots I'm speaking of come in. If you haven't seen the movie by the time you read this, then of course this will mean nothing to you, haha.
All-in-all, I think our end result came out pretty decent and I hope you'll enjoy it!
Regards, Ben
I saw a few other user threads concerning their 48 Hour Films, and thought I might as well post mine up.
My team's film is called "Marathon" and is the end product we conceived after getting stuck with the theme of 'sports'. We took it very generally, and set out to do something dramatic that would sort of stick with people. We're all teens in the 16-to-17-year-old age range, so we don't have too many resources, but we made do.
Marathon
(^click to watch^)
This film was written, shot, and edited in under 48 hours.
Shot on a Canon GL2 and edited in Vegas 6.
No adapters or anything special used.
Roughly 7 minutes in length.
I'm the cinematographer and director of this film, though nobody in my team tends to assume a written title. Luckily, though we turned this in 4 minutes late (the drop-off for the contest was 28 miles out of the city it was supposed to be based in) we still received a Best of City nomination, were awarded the Audience Award, and got to talk to the local reps about it showing other places. So it didn't end up all bad!
Some stills:
The film suffered from a bunch of issues during its production, including multiple visits by the police (who kindly asked us to leave several locations), a visit by the entire fire department, and a main actor pulling a life-threatening hernia on the first day of shooting. As with most filmmakers, these are all punches that one must roll with- especially during timed contests- so I'm not making excuses, just putting some things into perspective. We wanted to go very 'out there' and experimental with our filmmaking, and I think that came through. Some of the storytelling may seem contrived; this is likely because we had to change a great deal of the script last-minute due to the hernia issue with the main character.
Another few things about the film are the shots of the city and early-morning shots (once you watch the movie, that is) are meant to be references to the past, as part of parallel storytelling. A few people in the original audience didn't get this. Being a new city for the 48 hour project (Dallas) we were required to have at least one cityscape shot in there, so that's where the shots I'm speaking of come in. If you haven't seen the movie by the time you read this, then of course this will mean nothing to you, haha.
All-in-all, I think our end result came out pretty decent and I hope you'll enjoy it!
Regards, Ben
