The Philadelphia 48 Hour Film Project
What Happened During Your Weekend?
The Philadelphia filmmakers share stories from their wild weekend of filmmaking. (Blogging ended shortly after the filmmaking weekend.)
what a ride!
Friday nightro:Lots of beer and ideas flowing until about midnight, when the crew assembled on the front porch to hear the fleshed out ideas. i crashed in the passenger seat of my car at about 4am with a roughed out script and a half day shooting schedule
saturday morning 6 am: opened my eyes to see good outdoor lighting..smiled and slept for another 2 hours.
SATURDAY WAS LONG AND HARD. directing, shooting, tricky lighting (damn clouds), beer, and fatique all hit me at about 7pm. thank god for a great crew to keep me going. watching the scene...throwing in another angle for coverage here and there. trying ideas on the fly. Our actor rob was doing shots of gin to stay "in character". the day wrapped at about 2 am.
Sunday: didn't eat. editing all day. didn't remember not eating until we were at silk city enjoying a beer.
- Kristian Reid, Bastard Film Makers
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dull . . . very dull . . .
Saturday: sing, dive, sing, dive.
Sunday: sing, dive, edit, dive.
- bill dyszel, cinemasolo.com
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Great Time
My team and I live about two hours from Philly. we are from the Harrisburg area. My friends and I fleshed out our story and most of the script by 11:30 PM... at 12:00 AM I decided to change my story idea because logistically it was going to be a nightmare to produce. So my buddy and I fleshed out a new script and finished around 4:00 AM. We started the next day around 9:00 AM and started filming at 11:00 AM...everything ran like clock work. We all had a GREAT time making our short film and we are very happy with our product. I am always amazed at the high quality of films that come out of Philly. It is truly an honor just to be a part of the competition with all of you.
Great Job to everyone and congrats to the winner.
Thanks Philly 48HFP!
- Dana Sink, Gambler's Productions
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Print to Video!!! Print to Video!!!
Here was our entry to the 2008 48 Hour Film Project:
http://www.youtube.co...
Team:Scrambled Egg Films
Film: Diabolos
Friday Night
We were hacking out plots until about 4 or 5am.
Saturday
We had a story outlined and scripted. Our first location was a restaurant/bar. We got there around 10am. We found out that morning that another group was going to shoot a music video so we'd have to share shooting time. We also had until about 4:30-5pm to shoot before the restaurant opened for business. So like the DV Rebels we are we planned out everything we needed to shoot and when our turn came up we got what we needed done.
And wouldn't you know it we lucked out because the peeps shooting their music video were happy to be in our movie AND they let us use their rap tune!!
After 6pm we regrouped then went to our second location in south philly and shot the opening scenes. We got back around midnight and began importing our video.
Sunday
Post Production. Still had to shoot the ending scene and another scene. Got that done around noon. Most of the clips were set so all we had to do was trim/edit trim/edit and then the rest of the music was made and added.
We got everything done around 5:30 and were ready to export...
THEN...
From about 6 to 6:55 we frantically tried exporting to miniDV. (In FCP we Print to video)
But the sound wasn't coming through! DOH! WT-???
We eventually got it working and at 6:58pm we zipped down to the dropoff.
Got there around 7:17. Whew!!!
Overall everyone was excited about making this film and the best part is that everyone had fun!
Every year it gets better and better...
Can't wait till next year!!
- Tony, Scrambled Egg Films
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Cinema Alliance wrapup
The cast and crew consisted of 6 people. Myself and the writers wrote the script Friday night, we finished around 11:30pm or so. From there I was up until about 4am storyboarding, sending out emails to the cast/crew to coordinate location and getting equipment ready.
We started shooting Saturday about 11am. We shot all day and finished shooting about 7:30pm. I went home did the capturing and some motion graphics and then crashed at about 3am.
Woke up at 8am and hit the chair to do all the post work. I finished all the post work (editing, special effects, titles, music, etc.) and turned in DISHCHARGE at 6:50pm (deadline was 7:30pm).
It was a blast! We had a great team (which included actors Gary Gustin and Mala Wright as well as writer David J. Greenberg) which made the process that much easier and more enjoyable.
All in all - a great time and we turned out with a great short film. Dishcharge will be posted to the Cinema Alliance website later this month after I do some more fine-tuning.
- Sean McKnight, Cinema Alliance
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GOOD LORD
If you read above, our noble INGSOC team leader Mark Kochanowicz put it perfectly. It was one of the longest weekends in history since Abe Lincoln crossed the Delaware. I know that is not historically correct, but that's how crazy it was. Once we had the long shoot for Coriolis in the can, I brought the footage home to edit. I could only do so much that first day since I was also a member of the Main Line Film Festival, but I managed to come home from the MLFF a tad early that evening and start the rough cut. Sunday went by lightning-fast. Before I knew it, Mark arrived with our composer. Matt sat behind me and recorded the music on his laptop while I made some final edits and worked on sound design. Thankfully everything matched up and we began rendering and outputting. That is the most nerve-racking part: Outputting. Thankfully, we burned the DVD in time and Mark took off for Silk City. Once I knew the film arrived in order, I collapsed into a coma. On my cat. It's good times to suffer temporary fatigue and disease for ones art.
- John P. Gelety, INGSOC
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Sleep!
We had a small crew so many of us had to pull double and triple duty. I'm sure as many of the other teams, sleep was a luxury. I think one guy from our crew was up from Friday morning until Sunday night only getting about 2 hours of sleep total! It was a great time and we hope to be back next year!
- Ric Edevane, Delaware Film Alliance
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Crazies Weekend of My Life - Two Events in 48 hours
I was up for 47 straight hours. My old record was 46. 2008 was my first year running the Main Line Film Festival and wouldn't I have the great luck of it happening the same exact weekend as the Phila 48 HFP!!! I went ahead and participated anyway and did both events. This was my second year being team leader for INGSOC. We shot the film, "Coriolis" from 7:30 PM Friday until 8:30 AM Saturday. At 10:30 I was at the movie theater in Wayne, PA setting up the equipment for the film festival that ran from 1:00 PM until 11:45 PM Saturday. Most of my festival team was the same 48 HFP team, so we all felt the same. We started cutting early on Sunday morning. Our music composer, Matt S. Baker, took the bus in from Washington D.C. just for the project and arrived at 1:30 PM. He had 2 1/2 hours to create the soundtrack. I think he did a great job. We won the Best Music award last year thanks to him. He was back on the bus to D.C at 4:30 PM. We synced it all together and dropped of the DVD at 7:00 PM! This was the busiest weekend of my life. I'd do it all over again too. Thanks 48 HFP, Scott Johnston and to my team members.
- Mark Kochanowicz, INGSOC
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Congrats, Philly!
Well - its all in the can!
The 7th Philadelphia 48 Hour has just finished up!
(a few films remain to be hunted down)
to those I say - "get them TO me"
my number - 215 627 2103
but the early imports show TREmendous great scope!
In fact - with only 6 films imported...its the best bunch ever!
Well Done to ALL those who dared to soar
(you're all winners)
and some will be even bigger winners!
Can't wait to see the whole she-bang with the rest of the audiences Tuesday and Wed.
Best Year EVER!!!
scott johnston
- scott johnston, Philadelphia 48HFP Producer
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