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.