The Denver 48 Hour Film Project

What Happened During Your Weekend?

The Denver filmmakers share stories from their wild weekend of filmmaking. (Blogging ended shortly after the filmmaking weekend.)

GO FAST!

So, have to say thanks for the Go Fast! energy drinks...my co-producer and I totally hogged them for ourselves. ;) But don't worry, we bought pizza and stuff for our cast and crew.

Fun times were had by most, if not all...this was our first year doing this, and it was definitely a learning experience. We had about half our team drop out on Friday, so we spent that night scrambling to find people to replace them. Then the person who was supposed to bring the sound recording equipment...well...he just didn't. So we winged it, and while we'd like to have made something closer to our original vision, we were pretty happy to just get done with the film on time!

We're definitely looking forward to next year! See you all in '09!

- Jeremy Hochhalter, d4i Production Studio

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This is good

The way we shot our film required us to spend most of our time rehearsing, and the SP thought that rehersing at the location was best, and I agreed. it made sense. Except that the temperature was in the upper 80's lower 90's inside and nearly 100 outside. The cast got vbery tired, so that by the time we started shooting on Saturday night, everyone had "trouble." in the end, we were happy with what we produced, but next year I will make absolutely certain that AC is available where we shoot.

Let that be a lesson to you!!!!!

- Stephen, Anson

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Urban Heat Island

We shot a bit outside of Denver in Englewood, in a field with dirt roads and lots of (browning) vegetation. It was hot, but not unbearably so, especially in the afternoon. I finally got to feel the effects of that Urban Heat Island I've heard so much about. When it was really hot, we had shade, cold water and fans running in between shots, so all in all the heat was bearable, even for my actors wearing trenchcoats and jean jackets.

Otherwise, we had a blast, and at 2 a.m. in the morning my senile house cat (henceforth known as "robocat") was waaaaay more entertaining to the delirious editing team than she should have been. And that's what I call fun. There's nothing like watching that end result (over and over), and I can't wait to see everyone else's work.

- Gabe Stein, GW

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The Crazy Weekend

Our first shot was at Wash Park and my lead actress kept talking about the sweat beads that were rolling down the back of her leg. I wondered if we would make it through the first scene!

The rest of the 15 hour shoot was that much harder with the 103 degree heat. It seemed that each set-up that included moving gear from an inside location to our cars or outside to shoot took twice as long because everyone had to stop and drink lots of water. We were happy to get into the edit room on Sunday and out of the hot sun.

Overall it was a great weekend. What a rush to turn in the final film.

We beat the heat!

- Brad Stabio, Cinema Geeks

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Stupid heat.

Yeah we shot at the park, and nearly melted in our costumes. I was sweating buckets and parts of my costume kept sliding off of my face (we ended up putting it in the film hahaha). And after we were done shooting we drank warm Gatorade. Mmm mmm!

- Aj Koch, BadScience

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How did it go?

Just wanted to see how everyone’s weekend went. We ended up shooting at a location that didn't have AC and it nearly wasted us. Anyone else succumb to the heat?

- Stephen Anson, More Where That Came From

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