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.)
48 Hour Film Project + Any Philadelphia Film Festival
Any chance next year of having the 48 Hour Film Project coinciding with any Philadelphia Film Festival so that the 'Best of's and the overall winners can be premiered again during a Film Festival? That was always a cool idea and a way to get more people to see Philly's works for the 48 Hour Project.
- Tony Obfenda, Scrambled Egg Films
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2010 winners:
Many thanks to everyone who helped tp make the 2010 48 Hour Film Project in Philadelphia
The best one yet, and while everyone was a winner, the following films are THE winners for 2010
Best Use of Character:
One by One Films \\\'Song of the South Trail\\\'
Best Use of Prop:
Tick Tock Productions \\\'Let Us\\\'
Best Use of Dialogue:
Franks\\\' Kitchen \\\' AutoGenous\\\'
Best Use of Genre:
Pineapple Juice and Poncit \\\'Cultured Passions\\\'
Best Special Effects:
Atomic Cheesecake \\\'The Marvelous Brothers and the case of the Demon Gorilla in 3D\\\'
Best Sound Design:
C Tech 1 \\\'Ninth Circle\\\'
Best Music:
That Ain\\\'t Right! Films \\\'Diner Pour Deux\\\'
Best Cinematography:
Frank\\\'s Kitchen \\\'AutoGenous\\\'
Best Editing:
Team Woodshop \\\'Party in The Back\\\'
Best Writing:
Meatball Posse \\\'Second Hand Stiffs\\\'
Best Acting:
Descendant Films \\\'Unlock\\\'
Best Directing:
Nectar of The Gods \\\'High Stakes\\\'
BEST FILM, PHILADELPHIA 2010:
PunchBelly Productions \\\'Two of Harts\\\'
AUDIENCE AWARDS:
Group A - Team Woodshop \\\'Party in the Back\\\'
Group B - Punchbelly Productions \\\'Two of Harts\\\'
Group C - That Ain\\\'t Right! Films \\\'Diner pour Deux\\\'
Group D - Nectar of The Gods \\\'High Stakes\\\'
Special Shout-outs from Philly\\\'s Judges:
Gay For Robots \\\'Much Ado Aboot Nothing\\\' - best of the late films
Minor Creations \\\'The Life of a First-Class Hoodlum\\\' - best line (of the late films)
Dependable Felons \\\'Three\\\'s a Crowd\\\' - \\\'best writing\\\' (of the late films)
Extra Special Shout-Out to \\\'Baby Hands\\\' for Best use of Gore and a Hacksaw
and EXTRA Special Shout-Out to:
Badger Tsunami \\\'The Center Cannot Hold\\\' for outstanding musical score.
- scott johnston, philadelphia producer
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Another crazy weekend!!!
Once again our cast and crew did a fantastic job putting together another quality film from scratch and submitting it on time.
Sure the house alarm went off because of some silly hot lights but at least now I know what that circuit breaker shuts off.
This year we new used new equipment. We had two Canon 7D's and rented 3 awesome Zeiss lenses. Sharp pics! We recorded sound through the cameras as well as through a laptop with Logic Pro. Using slate as well as syncing software helped get everything together.
200+GB of video plus a whole bunch of audio files is a LOT!
Hats off to everyone who made a film!!
And now for the National Film Challenge!
- Tony Obfenda, Scrambled Egg Films
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Used New Equipment for Shoot
I decided to shoot with a video-enabled DSLR (Canon T2i) and an external audio recorder (Zoom H4n) for our horror "Flavor of the Week". This was my first time doing this.
Syncing the sound in post took a large chunk of precious time and my pc-based software had trouble with the video files (H.264). I had to import the 1080p files and then render them to SD to get picture to work on the timeline without staggering video issues. This left me with only an hour for sound design and music which I had to create myself. Somehow I managed to pull it off like other teams do too.
In the end I was pleased with the cinematography and sound quality. I will definitley use this shooting setup again but probably not on a 48 HFP shoot though. What a ballbuster weekend. Thank God I had a great cast & crew to work with. My most challenging 48 HFP yet!
- Mark Kochanowicz, INGSOC
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the best year ever
well there are a few 'imports' remaining BUT this year I fully expect several of the films screening in this upcoming week to be MOVIng forward to 'best-of' international... and beyond.
"there is awesome-ness afoot"
and there a few teams who are M.I.A. so if your one of them -
please email me your FILMS WILL SCREEN - just get them in!
And as always i remind filmmakers that the audience AND the judges watch the films toGether (philly is the only city that does it) so having your friends there can't hurt.
AND all late films ARE able to score big-time as Audience Award-winners. Also there are only 300 tickets available
(and last year one program did sell-out) so tell your family to get there early to secure a spot.
in 48 hours - we'll see which 48 hours were used well
and which were (perhaps) not.
best of luck to every team!
scott j.
- scott johnston, philadelphia producer
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All's fun until somebody calls the Fire Department
In our mystery of stolen lunch, a fog machine was used and made for some really cool effects UNTIL we decided to shoot in the elevator.
"Run the fogger, Camera rolls ... and... BEEP! BEEP! BEEP!" Thats when we learned some very important facts.
1. the Smoke Sensor outside the elevator is very sensitive and pick up smoke in a closed elevator.
2. The smoke alarms at my job are VERY LOUD!!!
3. (although this might be obvious to some) when the Fire Alarm goes off in a building, the elevators shut down prohibiting use.
4. "I don't speak any English" is not an acceptable response an Irate Fire Lieutenant that is telling you to evacuate the building.
5. Building Evacuations will effect the morale of a tired shooting crew.
- Charles Washington, Jr., Pineapple Soda and Poncit
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Dust Devils
Our lair and main shoot location was so dirty, that when one of crew members farted, a plume of dirt shot out his butt.
- Jerry Collom, KC Collective
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More like the 24 Hour Film Project
This Weekend started off ok, after we picked one of the wildcard topics of "time Travel" we rushed home, and immediately started to brainstorm. Only one problem, we were distracted by everything and anything you can think of. It was now about midnight, I started falling asleep, and my friend Jeff wasn't far behind me. When we woke up, it was 6:30 am we still had nothing. Our actors were scheduled to come over at eight, "this can't be good", I thought to myself. We actually started to come up with an idea, and finished it around 10am. We scheduled our first location at a barn, and began the shooting. We then went to the next location, and everything seemed fine. We were finally at our third and final location. We finished everything and said our goodbye's to the cast. We got home and started to import. As we were importing we realized that we had just broken the one and only rule. NO GUNS OUTSIDE. We freaked out and figured that we could work around it. Unfortunately it only got worse, we had audio problems, durning an inside shot there was music playing that we did not have rights to. At this point me and Jeff were both thinking that we wasted $135. We called up one of the actors and told him what had happened "I'll be right over", he said. Once he met up with us, it was 9 o'clock Saturday night. "were not dropping out", I said to Jeff. So we came up with an extremely experimental movie idea. It was all we had so we stayed up until 4am Sunday morning shooting this video. We woke up the same day around 10 o'clock. We rushed to start editing. The pressure was off, we finished the video completely at 4pm Sunday. I guess that we had just turned the 48 hour film project into the 24 hour film project. We will be screening our video during group B on thursday night, come out and watch it!
- Eric Marchione, Zero and Rising Productions
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fun at the funeral home
Our script centered around a funeral home and the wacky things they did with corpses. We spent a long time Friday night trying to figure out how to shoot a friend's house to look like a funeral home. On the way back from buying bagels for the crew on Saturday morning I stopped at a local funeral home to see if we could shoot there. The manager said yes, but we had to wait until after 3:30 for all the funerals to finish for the day. So we started way later than we wanted to, but the location was to die for!
- PJ Bielavitz, Meatball Posse
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