48hr Film - Done with 5D MKII

Eric Papa

Eric Papa

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I used my 5D II in the 48 hour film fest last week here in Cleveland. It was the first movie I got to shoot with the 5D II. Check it out - Remember, everything done in 48hours. cheers

In a twist of fate Hal Haynes, a court clerk, finds himself stuck within a game against the devil, which turns this “player” into the played. Having to dodge danger from every angle, he must win the game he claimed to have known, or forever meet his destiny. However, the devil desires her own “taste” of victory.

48 HR Film Festival Cleveland 2009
Character: Hal or Helen Haynes, Court Clerk
Prop: Blender
Line: "It's just really, really crazy."
Genre: Thriller/Suspense

Cast:
Rick Montgomery Jr. - "Hal Haynes" (Lead)
Patricia Valestin
Joseph O'Brien
Michael Breeze
Kathy Dice (Extra)

A story by Eric Papa. Written by Team EPPHD for 48hr film festival 2009.

Executive Producer: Eric Papa
Director: Eric Papa
Producer: Katrina Spohn
Director of Photography: Eric Papa
Associate Producer: Kim Kovach
Unit Production Manager: Lisa Moore
Key Grip: Kyle Lightner
Editor: Eric Papa
Music Score: Aryavarta Kumar
Pyro Technics: Rick Fike
Production Assistants: John Riddlebaugh, Audrey Jenkins, Robert G. Fadeley
Special Thanks: Patrick Alexander, Rick Fike, mom and pops.

This film written, cast, produced, directed and edited in 48 hours.

Copyright 2009 Eric Papa Productions.


ON YOUTUBE (HD)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K7dWy_SP-v0

ON FACEBOOK (HD)

http://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=126578008520

QUICKTIME FILE (640x360)

http://www.epphd.com/deploy/videoPlayer.html
 
Great work. Must have been hard to get all the composite work rendered out in time.
Canon footy looks good. Lighting was kind of flat, but hey, you did this all in 48 hours which is very hard.
 
Was pretty cool. Apart from aforementioned audio issues, the story seemed a bit cut and paste. Guy rushing of to meet a girl, goes to the bar and within minutes totally forgets about her when the bar woman hits on him.

The first scene didnt really have a great deal to do with the "actual" story - being the crazy satan bar woman - and as a sub plot died when he let the new woman just have him.

In short, Im following his side of the story, he's the one Im introduced to. But then the story switches to the crazy satan bar lady as the main character. I do know this is meant to be a bit of fun. Really liked a lot of your shot choices. Oh and Ive watched a lot of 48hr films and you managed a semblance of quality many fail to get close to in your shots.
 
I'd be happy if I could produce that in a lifetime let alone 48 hours.

I've gone in a local film contest, 24hour in-camera editing (no computer) quite a few times. I just enter with friends for the fun of it as we don't normally make films. A bit like a once a week jogger doing a marathon I supose.

Ours is a little different as we can have our story pretty much down only having to add a selection of items or locations that are anounced at the start.

I've always wondered about the 48hour concept and how teams handle it. If you don't even know what genre you are shooting how do you pre select locations and props etc. Is this all done on the fly within the 48 hours????

Our local contest died this year as they couldn't get enough sponsorship due to the economic crisis. When it returns (hopefully) next year, we suspect it will lift the in-camera edit rule as technology is beating it and people cheat.
 
why not a decent version to see?? if me was the director/producer/screenwriter whatever I'd put available the best possible quality version.. yet I wouldn't let online any other.. to download yeah.. why not?.. these youtube clips smash any attempt
 
it looks really damn good i think, but one thing that always bugs me about 48 hour film fests is the lack of good audio. seems like people always care about how good it looks and not about how good it sounds.

our local winning film was shot on 5d, it looked really good, along with a good, funny story. but guess what, sound was ****. our film got runner up, shot on d90, which was a silent film. that also won best sound. i'm kind of embarrassed to have our local winning film going to nationals with its poor sound.
 
Eric, nice work! I especially liked the opening scene where they were walking down the steps and path...it had good motion. Do you by any chance remember what the shutter speed was on that scene?

I agree with the good sound comment as well. As much as I love the photographic part of shooting video, the saying will always ring true: to a certain extent, the audience can forgive poor picture quality, but not poor sound quality.
 
Yep - the audio was my fault. We had both boom mic audio, and wireless mic audio pumped into the HVX200 via XLR's.

The main killer for me was the IMPORT of the 5DII footage. We wrapped production at 8am Sunday morning (a 26 hour day). I immediately started importing 24GB of 5DII footage into Avid. This killed the edit. I paced back and forth for hours, and it turned out taking 6 hours to IMPORT!! This meant I did not get to even start my edit until 1:55 PM, Sunday afternoon. I did do titles in photoshop on another computer, and also viewed the quicktime movies on my mac - to get familiar with which ones I wanted to use once the Avid import was done.

So basically what you see for the edit, I did everything in just a little over 3 hours. start to finish. I had to be downtown cleveland with a quicktime movie by 7:30pm Sunday evening.

But back to the audio - I accidently "audio mix - down" the wireless mic and replaced the boom mic channel. It still sounded ok in the headphones, and in the theatre as well, but online I can tell you guys notice the woman's levels arent loud enough. what i mean to do was to have both channels on L&R.

There is really alot more to this movie - alot more pinball stuff, so I will likely make a Directors cut, which will have perfect audio, better keys, and more ACTION! and some blood! This is what a 3 hour edit looks like!
 
octopi_films said:
Eric, nice work! I especially liked the opening scene where they were walking down the steps and path...it had good motion. Do you by any chance remember what the shutter speed was on that scene?

I agree with the good sound comment as well. As much as I love the photographic part of shooting video, the saying will always ring true: to a certain extent, the audience can forgive poor picture quality, but not poor sound quality.
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It was probably this: 200mm f4.0, shutter at 400, iso probably 200.

Originally that was supposed to be a steadicam shot, but I just couldnt get it smooth enough.
 
Eric Papa said:
The main killer for me was the IMPORT of the 5DII footage. We wrapped production at 8am Sunday morning (a 26 hour day). I immediately started importing 24GB of 5DII footage into Avid. This killed the edit. I paced back and forth for hours, and it turned out taking 6 hours to IMPORT!!
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I've done three films in 48 hours with the 5D now, and the workflow we've settled on is to have a laptop standing by at all times during the shoot with a batch list set up in MPEG Streamclip (converting to ProRes for FCP). As one scene or setup is done we offload the files to the laptop and throw them into the list - that way when we wrap shooting there's rarely more than an hour's encoding left to do.
 
So we mentioned on here the audio problems - yet I just found out that the film is nominated for best audio... However its NOT nominated for best cinematography.. I don't think these cleveland judges are very sharp. (Keep in mind it was one of the few films even done in HD lol)
 
Hey man.. nice job on the video. let us know when the director's cut is online... love that digital SLR too.
how was the workflow with Avid and the footage? When are you doing to make the jump to FCP?
 
The workflow with Avid was good, once I got everything imported. as somone else mentioned I should have been importing on the fly throughout the weekend.

Avid finally got it right with Media Composer 3.x I can't switch to FCP at this point. Macs are way over priced right now. Especially once you add Ram and stuff. Im building powerful Avid's on PC's for under $2K, dual 1080p samsung monitors included in that price too (software not included).

I never could have pulled those keys in 45 minutes without Avid.

I'll put together the Directors cut over the next few days. should be interesting
 
they key to workflow on 48 is having a separate editor who isn't dp'ing, directing or on production. at least an assemble editor. so many teams have had issues with that. this past year we had a dedicated editor and it was a breeze! we had picture lock at like 11pm on saturday night! that left all of sunday for polishing up. but still something always happens like an hour before to set you back, haha!
 
Yea another editor would have been a life saver. Unfortunately I dont even know another person in cleveland who can cut on Avid.

There were little mistakes here and there that cost us a few hours which would have made a big difference. Somone left batteries and chargers at one location. We had to go back and get them - which costs us 2 or 3 hours between 2:00am - 4:30am

Another thing was there was a few rookies on the team who wanted me to shoot this and that - eventually I had to kick them off set or we never would have even wrapped production lol
 
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