48 Hour Film Fest

Details from the email announcement

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

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

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

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

Rakirovka Expert execution in the "foreign film" genre.

(more to come)