The Asheville 48 Hour Film Project

What Happened During Your Weekend?

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

yetr another wonderful weekend!

Third time out and what a blast!. started writing with 1 teammate present and working with the rest Via phone. the two of us finished script,storyboard, shotlist at 6 am. arrived at shoot at 7 am all crew was there , even with a car transported to the 1st location. 1 hour to shoot 15 second scene. load up the dead car to go to next location...... NO LEAD CHARACTOR!!! No answer, not at their home not with anyone we can contact. Grab a friend and inform" congrats, you are now our lead charactor!"
rewrite script to accommodate changes/camera angles( original lead 13 feet tall new one 5'9" tall.)
At noon original actor gets in contact. we actually finished shootong by 4 pm sat and that includes throwing and destroying a volvo(hard to do we found out!)!!had a great crew, some new and some returning from last two years.

got to see film on big screen thats all i need to feel like a success! cant wait till next year

- dave keister, On The Fly

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One for the Ages

This is my sixth year in the Asheville 48-Hour Film Project, and this year blew away every other in terms of drama and excitement. We drew Mockumentary. After writing all night Friday (2 hours sleep), we began filming at our first location in the morning. We shot all morning, then passed the miniDV tape to our editor, who shortly phoned that all the footage couldn't be used -- a technical glitch I won't go into here.

Long story short, we found ourselves at our second location at about 6:00 pm on Saturday with no usable footage and no way to complete our script. What to do? Luckily, I had a small team this year (11, counting 4 actors). We came up with an idea on the spot, and everybody pitched in. We finished shooting at about 10:30 that night (improvising every scene and with everyone taking a turn in front of the camera), and then we began the arduous task of editing 55 minutes of footage down to 7.

Not only did we turn our movie in on time (making it essentially a 25-Hour Film Project for us), but we're really proud of our movie. I have no idea if it'll win any awards, but I am extremely proud of our team. For me, this was a trifecta of success, as we satisfied all three things I wanted to accomplish: have fun, learn something, and get a movie in on time. As I wrote on my wrap-up form: "This wasn't just an exercise in team building, it was a lesson in faith and surrender."

Cannes Deux? Dunn didd!
-Mark Bloom

- Mark Bloom, Cannes Deux Films

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a wild ride

this was truly a wild ride i mean thursday nite worked 3rd shift so that i could drive to asheville i live in greenville sc. left the kickoff wrote on the way home called th cast and crew both were great. got a location started filming about 11:30pm halfway through the scene thugs come in had to leave location start fresh sat morn...... wrapped up 6pm sat edited from 7pm to 6am sunday morning ..... need sleep gotta drive to asheville 1hr 40mins away. need sleep ok made it oh yeah thanks to my crew and cast also to the keenan family for everything and a big shout out to the city of asheville and the 48hr team you guys are so lucky to have a city behind you and supporting your dreams

- kell whiteside, team kolobus film divison

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One for the team.

I'd like to give a big thanks to the rest of the cast and the crew of our first 48HFP. We had a cast of two plus myself and a crew of five altogether. Beginning at 7pm Friday we finished the script around 3am Saturday morning (this included costuming people and recruiting an actor), went to bed, then were up at 6am, made a coffee run, and we were filming by 7. Again another night until 3:30, up at 7 to finish editing and shooting pickups. I can't say that I'll miss the 90 degree weather with hot lights a foot from my face while wearing men's clothing, but it was definitely a worthwhile experience and a very fun one. I can't wait until next year. A huge thank you to our director's brother who put up with us kicking him out and tearing up his room.

- Kristin Lane, Dropped Frame Films

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Sleep please

After drawing "Romance", our team cranked out the idea for the film and the script and finally finished by about 1 am Sat morning. We met at 9 AM and drove to the first location. We shot there until about 4 pm and moved to location #2 where we shot until nearly sundown. Location #3 was complete by about 10 pm and we started editing. Two team members stayed up all night Sat night and turned over the edit to other at 10 am on Sunday morning. We continued to edit right up until about 60 minutes before the deadline. Several attempts at burning a DVD failed as panic set in with a hardware failure. We managed to come up with two thumb drive memory sticks and got the movie copied and turned in with only moments to spare.

Please wake me up so I don't miss July 4th :)

Jenn

- Jenn Charlene Jacobsen, Treehugger Films

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48 hr virgin

I just finished picking up all of the gaffer's tape up around my house and thought I would post on

the blog. This was my first 48 hr FF and what a ride!...I quickly went from being excited to

seriously intimidated as my crew/cast dwindled from 20..then 15...then to possibly 10 the week of

kick off. The day of kick off I had a committed cast and crew of 4 (including me), and the cast

doubled as production....So, I need to give a public shout out to Andrea (my rock), Ryan and

Jeremy. And I need to give a shout out to my musician friends...Jessie and Mike...because

otherwise you would just really notice all of the awkward pauses and mic clips....

At the end of the day here's the tally: - 2 hours...I live an hour away from Asheville (so really I had

46 hrs).. Two 60 min. tapes, 3 large pizzas, one 6 pack Miller Lite, 1 case of bottled water, 10 +

gatorades, 1 thumbnail (mine pinched locking up a dolly shot)....1 watch (again mine..stopped

11:50pm Sat), 8 + sandwiches, 2 trips to Dollar Tree, 1 pick-up from Joy of Tokyo, and finally my

sanity = 1 finished short film...Will I do it again? Yes.

- Steven Reeps, East North Productions

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Whew!

Got it in on time! Big relief...I think we turned in a very solid effort, in the end. Thanks to everyone who busted it to get this done! Look forward to seeing the competition...

- Andy Balla, Blue Ridge Community College

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