Thursday, May 06, 2010
For a Few Flowers More
or the last four years I’ve participated in the 48 Hour Film Project, an international filmmaking competition wherein teams compete within their city to make a short film in 48 hours, after drawing their film genre out of a hat and being given specific parameters that must be included in the final product. This year, the team I formed, ALBATROSS!, drew a particularly tricky genre: “Musical or Western.” We chose Western.
For a Few Flowers More: As the internet becomes our new frontier, a man from a simpler time must defend his virtual property the old-fashioned way.
In addition to the genre, we had to include a character named Wilma or Winston Weatherby (a gardner), a scale, and the line of dialog “You win some, you lose some.”
To say that I am immensely proud of my team and what we accomplished in such a short time frame would be an understatement of epic understatedness. Whether or not this film is recognized in the competition, it represents a momentous leap forward in the quality of our shooting, editing, scoring, and storytelling. Congratulations to all the 48Hour filmmakers—every year I’m blown away by the creativity that panic inspires.
s predicted, spring has sprung and there are days I don’t feel I can breathe. Too much to do, too much to plan… too much pollen in my lungs. There are soundtracks for months like this. Everybody’s is different. Here’s an excerpt of mine.
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