48 Hour Film Fest

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Details from the email announcement[edit]

May 31 - June 2, 2013 with screenings on June 7, 8, 9.

You'll see your work up on the big screen right away. Completed films will be screened at NYU's Cantor Film Center the weekend following the competition. City winners will be invited to Filmapalooza! National winners screen at Cannes!

Registration is open! Sign up for the New York 48HFP here.

Rules[edit]

Make a ~7 minute film in 48 hours. To prevent you from planning or writing ahead of time some items are drawn from a hat during the first hour:

genre
a required prop
a required line of dialogue
a character name
a character profession

No paid crew or actors allowed.

Schedule[edit]

This is a general tried-and-tested schedule for making this sort of event work smoothly, if you want to have an idea of what to plan for.

Prior Weekend (in this case May 19th since the next weekend is not available) -- 12 hour practice film. This allows the crew to get used to working together. Also helps weed out actors who aren't going to be reliable (if you don't show up for the practice, you're not on the team.)

Contest Weekend:

7pm -- pull genre from hat
7pm - 8pm -- brainstorming for script
8pm - 6am (overnight) -- Writers write
6am - 7am -- Storyboarding with director
7am - 8am -- Read-through with actors
8am - evening -- Filming/scoring
overnight Sat -- editing/scoring
morning Sun -- pickup shots
afternoon Sun -- final editing

Roles[edit]

Please feel free to nominate yourself or people you know for anything you would be willing to try. Don't worry if you have no experience -- this is for fun, we'll sort things out at the first meeting.

Producers
Holly
Director
Cinematographer(s)
Trammell
Camerapeople
Trammell
Sound person
Travis
Prop person
Lighting person
Hair and makeup
Costumer(s)
Grip(s)
Location scout
Cast wrangler
Script wrangler
Holly
Editor(s)
Holly
Writer(s) (there will be a write-off of some sort to choose a head writer)
Composer(s)
Slate holder
Porter
Caterer (ie. GrubHub organizer and Chipotle runner)
Actors (via casting call? But stick your name down there if you're willing to jump in.)
Holly
Undecided
wwward

Good example films to watch[edit]

Rakirovka Expert execution in the "foreign film" genre.

(more to come)