The Asheville 48 Hour Film Project
What Happened During Your Weekend?
The Asheville filmmakers share stories from their wild weekend of filmmaking. You can blog for 14 days after the 48HFP. Share your story!
Thanks Asheville...
This was our first year, and we had a really great time. Our movie was Frank the Eye. I am pretty proud we made it into the top ten, especially considering all the talented folks and folks with real gear in the competition. I think what gave us a leg up was that we followed all the rules and got our movie in on time.
To be anonymously bashed alongside the likes of Mobius Loop makes me extra proud. I loved that movie. Yay us!
I didn't agree with the judges on all their choices either. Now that I think of it I've never agreed with all of the academy awards either. I had way too much fun to be bent about any of it though.
Check us out if you want to:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8epqvcXuuuw
Anyone have any idea how I can see that Lego one again?
- Pete Lutz, Golden Manatee Productions
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what were the top ten?
When are the top ten going to be posted?
We had to leave and didnt see if our film at least made the top ten or were we DQed for some reson.
If anyone remembers the order post it up please.
Mike
Fate Mt Films
- Mike, Fate Mt Films
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No offense but...
were the judges on CRACK?
- Are you kidding me, Absolutely Ridiculous
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What you were thinking / Same old story
Please do not start this... Every year we have anonymous people that don't believe the judges made the right decisions and every year we have [presumably the people who won the awards] "anonymous" folks who believe the people expressing their opinions are sour grapes or "couldn't possibly understand all the effort it takes to put one of these things together". I have been a film maker in this competition for the last three years [I do understand the effort it takes... since I am involved in all phases of our films] and have had varied experiences with this competition. Our film did not win any awards this year...Should it have? Well, that is irrelevant. If I think it should, that doesn't make me a sore loser. It means I believed in what we did.
So... "What were you thinking..." I know others that feel the way you do...you sound [to me] as if you know the effort this competition takes... Please offer your voice, it deserves to be heard...but be proud of your film and don't be afraid to speak your mind with your name attached at the bottom... your opinion will be respected
"Same old story"...congrats...if I am correct in assuming your film was recognized as a winner... but please do not demean this competition by making such careless statements about others in defense of the awards that were given...be proud of your film and don't be afraid to speak your mind with your name attached at the bottom... your opinion will be respected
So, I guess my point is that if you want this blog to be a series of back and forth anonymous jabs at each other, then no one will stop you. But, we are all above that. The judges made their choices and I don't agree with all of them. It is a bitter pill to swallow sometimes. I am not a person who believes in the modern notion that everyone should get a trophy and "we're all winners" You've got two choices, you can either quit or get ready for next year.
If you have an issue with anything i've written, feel free to contact me at our youtube page for this year's film... leave a comment and I'll give you my email address if you prefer... [or leave it here...i'll check back]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8epqvcXuuuw
Thanks...and watch out for next year
- Greg Lambert, roundDOG films?
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Congrats Everybody!
Howdy everyone. Congratulations to all the teams. There were so many great films (LOVED Forfeit, Beest & the Lego movie to name a few of my personal favorites). I need to publicly send laurels to my wonderful team and thanks to our friends on other teams who sent good vibes our way. Special thanks to the judges who astonishingly honored our film with 2 awards.
If you get a hankering for more "Serial Love," please find us at:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gjzbTretZ5k
The Drama Department at Blue Ridge Community College also has a Myspace page, if you'd like to keep up with all our exciting plans:
Myspace.com/brccdrama.
Thanks for another great year!
- Jennifer Treadway, Blue Ridge Community College
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thanks so much
hey everyone, i'm emilie from the strawboss labs team. my brother and dad and i wanted to thank you guys so much for the support and the love for this movie.
i wanted to thank you all for loving our film.
check it out on youtube
here is the link::http://youtube.com/watch?v=ZG5CxExX2vc
also add us on myspace..
emilie::myspace.com/aelove93
julian::http://www.myspace.com/jules_6630
steven::http://www.myspace.com/satingle
add us all!!
and i think we are making a myspace page for strawboss labs.
again thank you so much for the love and support.
xoxo.
emilie.
- emilie tingle, strawboss labs
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Same old Story...
Sounds like someone was upset because the team they were backing didn't win...why be such a jealous sour puss...the judges did what they always do, they voted based on their opinions. Everyone has one...maybe you should try to become a judge if it bothers you so much who gets selected as the best...or perhaps you're not a 48 film maker at all so you couldn't possibly understand all the effort it takes to put one of these things together....hmmm.....makes me wonder
- Responder to Concerned..., Audience
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What happened??
Frank the Eye???????? Mobius Loop????? what??? Who were the judges?? This was ridiculous. The top ten films picked were the worst possible representation of the Asheville 48 hour film project.
- Concerned viewer, What Were You Thinking Productions
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As always too much fun....
As always it was too much fun right up to the last passable minute thanks to multiple crashes and equipment failures.
Congrats to all the teams that made it on time.
This year we drew horror and thats exactly what we made.
It's not for the squeamish.
Here it is.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U4FRLYnh8pw
- Mike, Fate Mt Films
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Tear of the Beest
This was so much fun to make and so much work!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tpQhfpfHtYg
- Jessica Tomasin, Broken Burrito Productions
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Divided Highway
Check out "Divided Highway" at:
http://www.youtube.com/mynameisnotom
- Evan Heimgartner, The Doo-Doo Crew
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"Nonfiction"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8epqvcXuuuw
- Greg Lambert, roundDOG films?
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Movie Address
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ss6qBsiZS4E
- Jesse Romine, Romine Brothers
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What do you think?
Romine Brothers have made the movie under 48 hrs. check it out.
- Jesse Romine, Romine Brothers
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I was really planning on sleeping...
But when the music showed up at 2 AM Sunday morning, I was having way to much fun to quit. So, I edited on around the clock. At hour 32 of being awake, I crashed for about a 45 minute break.
It was my first experience editing, and I had a blast. Thanks for the opportunity. Check out our final product at http://benandjacq.tumblr.com/post/39762834/48hour
- Ben Meredith, Third Way Productions
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It just gets better and better!
Despite the fact that we put in so much time, hard work, energy, money and thought to this project each year, it still feels like an honor and a privelege to be included in this strange and beautiful mix.
We look forward to it every year and all the work and planning and exhaustion is worth it for the experience.
Each year we've learned a LOT of smaller lessons, and usually one or two (or more) big, important ones, and we've always had a good time and been proud of our achievement. This year however, it all seemed to really come together in a big way for the first time. We still learned new lessons, big and small, but there was an energy, a confidence and a team-wide inspiration that we've never really had before. Year one, our energy and inspiration was high but we were fairly clueless, and there were conflicts among some of us working together on an unknown project with unknown people for the first time. We still made a great film though - it's my second-favorite of ours so far, in fact.
Year two we were feeling pretty good and pretty cocky. We had a good team, good people, places and things to work with, and we liked our script. We were still a little green though, and we second-guessed ourselves, and that led to making a few technical mistakes that just shouldn't have happened. We really liked that result too though, despite its flaws. It's my third favorite that we've done.
Last year I think we got a little too big for our britches - in more ways than one. Our cast and crew were bigger than we needed, and so we had to worry about a lot more logistical stuff. We tried a really ambitious location and then chickened out of using it to it's best capacity. We started out on a bad foot because some us us got bummed that we drew the same genre two years in a row (and some of the writers considered it a lame genre ;) and so our whole teams' spirits were low from minute one. We compromised on script ideas in order to keep from hurting peoples' feelings instead of just going with what would make a good film, and that flavored the whole weekend. We still feel that we made a really good film - especially technically (none of the same mistakes as the previous year! ;) but we also feel that we played it too safe. Trying ambitious things is risky, but worth it, as previous years' award-winning films have shown. Last year we just set aside our 'edge' in favor of making a good movie, and we feel that we did, but it just wasn't really special. We weren't 'feeling it'.
Having that in mind, we entered this year with a much more positive and cavalier feeling. Drawing a DREAM genre was part of that, for sure. I am an artist, and robots are one of my favorite subjects, so drawing sci fi was a true delight for me as the writer. We made some decisions from the start that were guaranteed to minimize compromise and indecision (no more script-by-committee!), we streamlined our team and made some new choices for cast and crew based on vision and desire as opposed to tradition or politeness. We wrote differently this year, from a visual perspective as opposed to a dialogue heavy story. The story was important, but the visual storytelling was moreso, and that made it a lot more fun for all us art&tech-geeks. We tried some brave and crazy things, we let ourselves play and yet stayed right on our tight schedule all along - we had even planned for schedule changes and how we'd handle that while breaking our script down into shot lists.
We let our hair down and had fun, we didn't let anything bother us, or disappoint us, we just let it roll. Because of our surreal story, the cast and crew were very excited about each scene and all the tech stuff that it took to pull it off. We wrote the difficulties into the script (instead of trying to work around problems, we wrote them into the story!) and that took a lot of pressure off of us. We really played with sound design for the first time, we pushed the envelope with lights and makeup and costumes, and even actors and roles. Making the decision to ditch music and have almost no dialogue set new challenges too. It was all so much fun, such a challenge and a HUGE science/fiction (as in 'the science of film-making' and 'the fiction of film-making') experiment itself - what a treat. As good as making all that happen was, the REAL treat was in watching our team be SO excited and adventurous. They were all so inspired to think more, suggest more, try more, and be brave in it, and I think it shows in our film this year, from corner to corner.
We've certainly never worked harder than we did this year, and some of us are STILL tired, but no matter what happens after Sunday night, we've already won the real prize, being so proud of what we made as a team and how much fun we had doing it.
I know we're not supposed to talk about other teams, but I would like to add that one of the most joyful things, year after year, no matter what happens within our team, is watching favorite teams that we've made friends with and rooted for return for another year; enjoying the first-time excitement of bright-eyed new teams, and the singular camaraderie that comes from sharing this particular brave, unique and wonderful insanity that is 48Hour Film Project!
Thank you, thank you, thank you - and 'see you next year!
- Sam Lovelace, MiracleMax Productions
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You can't buy THIS experience
This is my fourth year, and my second as Producer. I thought it would get easier, but it doesn't. I got a full 20 minutes of restless sleep Friday night while finishing the script, and Saturday was a long day of shooting at three locations. (Why oh why do I do that to myself?) We had our strongest team yet, and one of the largest with 26 people including talent, and I thought we'd rock. Well, we did, but we also encountered late sound problems. We got it in on time (by minutes), and the film is still solid, thank god. It just makes me want to keep trying, and I will, because it is such a blast, like cramming for a test you WANT to take. Good luck to everyone! -Mark
- Mark Bloom, 47th Hour Fillms
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Looking forward to Thursday
Just wanted to say thanks to Chris and Sam for having me aboard again this year...Arrrrghhh! Thank you two for giving me the chance to really get into this whole experience of sleep-deprived creativity. Truly one of the high-lights of my time here alive. Looking forward to seeing the other films up this year knowing that we gave all! Peace! Andy/Audio Boyscout
- Andy Balla , MIraclemax Producttions
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"Full Moon" is up on YouTube
Here is the link to my short. Hope you enjoy it.
Greg
http://youtube.com/watch?v=Do_1YEvXo7A
- Greg Flowers, Flowersfilm
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All or Nothing
Another year in the trenches; we had so many close calls on Sunday that I really didn't think it was going to happen, but somehow, miraculously, it did!
I want to send out a big thank you to everyone on our team for really putting so much time and effort into making this happen! I couldn't have done my part without you all!
It was cool to get a genre that most of us live our daily lives by...comedy!
- Tabitha Nowak, Blue Ridge Community College
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BRCC squeaks in on time
We always said we would never be down to the wire with our film, but it happens, you know, and it happened to us, but our film made it in with 10 seconds to go! It was a drama to match our "Horrific" Valentine's Day Comedy.
Thanks to the Team for making this a great experience, despite the heart palpatations, especially our editor Tabitha, neck-or-nothing driver Vince and wonderful, "never-say-die" director, my friend and colleague, Jennifer Treadway.
Give me some of that "Serial Love"!!
Katie Winkler
Writer
Blue Ridge Community College
- Katie Winkler, Blue Ridge Community College
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Flowersfilm makes
Hello everyone,
We made the short "Full Moon." Its a Film de Femme horror short about a serial killer stalking a victim. I'm proud of it. It is a departure from the light comedies I normally make. Two stars and myself were the only crew. I stayed up all night Friday and slept 3 hours Saturday night. I wrote, directed, and edited it. It is a throw back to all of the 70s and 80s horror movies I grew up watching. Fans of this era may get some of the references. The stars and I will be at the 7:30 screen on Thursday. Hope to see you all there. Congrats to all of the other filmmakers this year.
Greg Flowers
- Greg Flowers, Flowersfilm
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