48Hours, now over
This year’s fantastic 48Hours | Furious Filmmaking ’s filming weekend is now over, which took place from 7pm 16th of May, to 7pm 18th of May. We had heaps of fun, especially this being the first year that we’re entering this event.
Launch night, the Christchurch manager, Steve Austin, making an announcement.
Every film must include 3 random elements, a character, a prop and a line a dialog, which were provided on the launch night between 6pm and 7pm. Each team are also randomly provided with a genre which the team’s script should stick to. The final judging will look at how well and innovative the team used these random elements and genre. This year’s possible genres can be found here.
So we have:
- Character: “Kerry Post”, a perfectionist
- Prop: a Brush
- Line of dialog: “Wait a minute”
- Our Genre: Buddy Movie
Over the 48 hours, I think I had about 4 hour sleep, which is probably a bit more than what I first expected to have, haha. in retrospect, we still could have organised our time better, but I wasn’t not too picky about that, as long as everyone were having fun, it was good.
It the end we came up with a film named “Bite Sized Love”, a short story about two guys, Dave and Kerry. Can’t say much more about that, 48Hours have strict rules and we don’t want to say anything about our film until after the first public screening takes place on Wednesday. What I’ll say is though, this is the longest animation that we’ve made, in the shortest amount of time, and we’re all quite happy about that.
We like to thank all our sponsors, by having Greg finish all the food that they kindly given us for the weekend. There are actually more food in the fridge and the 3kg bag of coffee beans from Underground Coffee isn’t featured in this picture.
Final group photo with most of the group holding up notes and story boards, and me holding the submission envelope with the tape to submit inside. Bryan, Paul and Rhem missing from this photo.
The photo shoot soon turned violent.
After the violence receded, we made our way to the YellowCross where the final finish line is. We had about 48 minutes to spare in the 48 hours.
Getting an interview from C4TV after I got the submission in.
I just want to thanks all the guys and girls that helped us over this weekend, (not in any particular order) Matt, Steve G, Bryan, Chris, Amanda, Izzy, Morris, Greg, Paul and Rhem, it was really fun working with you guys, maybe we can do it again next year.
After the Wednesday screening, I’ll make public the video that we made, and get a link to YouTube from this blog. I’ll even throw in a few extra stuff that’s not in our submission.
Now, just need to get some sleep after that.
