The Brisbane 48 Hour Film Project

What Happened During Your Weekend?

The Brisbane filmmakers share stories from their wild weekend of filmmaking. (Blogging ended shortly after the filmmaking weekend.)

What a weekend!

We had an awesome time making our film, and it was a huge learning experience for everyone.

This was our first attempt to make a short film and it was pretty full on. In fact some of the team only met for the first time last week.

My key learning experiences were:

- Don't go to work on Friday! Or at least take the afternoon off :-)
- Don't try to write the whole thing on Friday night, do it in iterations while actors rehearse bits to see what works and what doesn't.
- Keep an eye on continuity, there's no time to re-shoot once you get to the edit, you just have to work around it.
- Keep all your locations very close.
- Be aggressive in the edit. Getting something OK in the minimum run time is better than delivering 7 minutes that are rubbish.
- Music adds a lot of character!
- Drink lots of water (oooops!)

Looking forward to doing this again next year! The crew are already thinking about our next film to do in a few months.

Hopefully this competition has kick-started us into producing some really good movies in the future.

- Matt Turner, A Splinter In Your Mind

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