Team Al Bear won best picture for their entry “Freak Mart”. Team Glorious Bastards took the audience favorite prize with their entry “Kung Fu Killbots”.

Greenless Pictures provided 3D glasses to the entire audience for their Best Cinematography winning entry “They Called Her Stumpy”.

Of the 24 teams to enter, 21 made it back. 17 of the teams made the deadline and were part of the competition.

Congratulations to all the filmmakers for surviving another 48!

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Good luck to all those who participated!!  The awards show is Oct 30th at The Loft.

The filmmakers in this iteration of the 48 Hour Film Shootout, for the most part, turned in some amazing work.  

• Greenless Pictures‘ Phillip Lybrand teamed with Production Abduction to produce a premise I would like to see developed into a weekly series – sort of Cylons meet Blade – with the opening title “There are five gifted races in this world.  None of which live forever.” – Good Stuff, if a little question-asking at the end.
• Team Bottle Nosed Dolphins took advantage of snow on Mt. Lemmon in May to shoot their Sci-Fi/Drama “Hike”.  Loved the gorilla suit and understand that blood on the snow is a shot that MUST be done given the opportunity.
• Wise Like A Wizard Productions’ “Real Ghosts: Conversations with the Dead” skillfully filled the mockumentary niche left empty by “The Rubins” who were missing from the competition this time.

We learned a ton from our own entry, which can now be seen here.  

• John Bormanis, who did the music for Pirate’s Daughter is an amazing talent.  John is a member of Mystery Tour, a local band that does “Beatles – Unplugged” – Go see his show, or better yet, hire him to write the music for your next production.
• No matter how late you are in production, you still need to shoot cut-aways.
• I had a chance to help a couple of teams who were rendering at The Loft just prior to the deadline.  If you didn’t listen to Ray at the pre-production meeting, let me say it here:  Leave Plenty of Time for Render.  We were outputting to tape an hour before the deadline when my HV20 stopped and said “Clean Heads”  It turns out that a cleaning tape is hard to find at 5:30p on a Sunday.  Luckily, we were able to clear the clog with a little fast-forward and rewind.
• A matte box is SWEET gear to have on a sunny Tucson late-afternoon – unless you forget to check your corners before shooting and it is in the shot.  FCP->Motion->Scale is a good thing.

As with our first try at a 48 Hour challenge, we had a great time and are looking forward to October.

In its fourth iteration, the Shootout was held from Friday, May 23rd through Sunday, May 25th.  Twenty-two teams were at the pre-production meeting held at The Loft and minutes before the 6:45pm cutoff, 10 teams had yet to turn in their tapes.  The final count of eligible teams will be announced at the screening on June 12th.

The team from Tall Ship Productions was assigned, by random draw, the Comedy genre.  Other elements assigned by contest organizers were:

• The character name “Karen Beasley”
• A plate imprinted with the face of a monkey
• The line: “This may sound weird, but I have dreams about what I am supposed to do.”

Contest rules require that all three elements be used in the film by main characters to show that the production was done during the 48-hours of the competition.


 

We are looking forward to getting the cast and crew back together after the holidays to celebrate and to brainstorm plot lines for the March competition.

Read Phil’s article on AZNightBuzz.com or take a six and a half minute break and watch the film by clicking the Media link in the right navigation bar.

19 teams set out on Friday, Oct 12, 2007 to make a 4 – 7 minute film in 48 hours that included three elements provided by the competition organizers:

• A rubber spider
• A character named Bill Ding
• The dialog “it’s a little bit tricky for people who aren’t used to it”

15 teams turned in films on Sunday but three were disqualified for either being late or not including one of the required elements.

“First Date” also captured Audience Favorite honors – a vote held after viewing all the qualifying films.

We are excited to have had our film be honored by both the judges and the audience and are looking forward to the competition in March. There are excellent filmmakers in Tucson and competitions like the 48-hour shootout let us all hone our skills and get our work shown.

You can watch “First Date” by clicking here.