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Tuesday, June 10, 2008

The 48 Hour Film Festival

The 48 Hour Film Festival

This year I joined the Itt-Tech team for the 48 Hour Film Festival. It was a new experience for me and I have to say I really enjoyed it. The concept behind the festival is that the films were made completely within a 48 hour time period. This of course is the whole trick, it is not easy to produce anything within such a short period of time. But to write, storyboard, direct, film, edit and drop the final product off in such a short period of time is the whole challenge to the 48 Hour Film Festival.

For the Itt-Tech team I took on the roll of the Art Director on this project. I personally took on an important shot that required a touch that only Number 34 could do. They script called for a shot of a cell phone hitting the ground and opening up to answer an incoming call. I mentioned that we could throw a cell phone at the camera all day long, and still not get the shot. So I opted to complete the scene in 3D. I spent several hours completing the model and textures during the first 24 hours of the competition, and spent the latter half compositing the phone in the scene. The result... a 48 hour phone.

Overall I was surprised in the final result of the film. Of course things went wrong, shots were missed, problems with editing. But that is the point of the project, to overcome within the 48 hours, and to produce a finished product. The Itt-Tech team should be proud of their efforts and product!