The Salt Lake City 48 Hour Film Project
What Happened During Your Weekend?
The Salt Lake City filmmakers share stories from their wild weekend of filmmaking. (Blogging ended shortly after the filmmaking weekend.)
Pushing the envelope
We had a cast and crew of 66, mostly pros and semi pros, all extremely experienced and team-work oriented - which made coordinating the aggressive shooting schedule (5am Saturday to about 4am Sunday with two complete units shooting both in tandem and individually at remote locations) after writing from 8pm Friday until 3am Saturday - smoother than any mangement project I have ever attempted. The pins and needles of being in the editing suite at 6pm Sunday and still being 1'30" too long was more terrifying/thrilling than riding the Fire Dragon at Lagoon. And with so many talented professionals, we all got the equivalent of a graduate degree in film-making.
Pushing the envelope definitely paid off in the biggest possible way for me, and I suspect for my team-mates as well. Come see us Wednesday night at 6:30.
- Bob Hawks, Skyhorse Illusions
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Still tired!
It's Wednesday and I've still not caught up on sleep! This was my first time doing the 48 hfp and I have to say I had the time of my life. Sleep deprivation can be really fun when there's sheep and peacocks to squawk and bleat at! Our team was small and wonderful. We had a great sense of team work and everyone had a lot of patience. I can't wait to do it again next year!
- Leah Bergquist, Silver Salt Pictures
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First Year Experiences
This is the first year I heard about the 48HFP, got super excited to join a team. Sitting around waiting to join a team and Never got invited. So I decided to start my own team.
A lot of friends and co-worker were excited to join, at the same time a lot drop out the last minute. Working only with what we had, with a camera malfunction and with a little production experience, we pressed on. First time ever working with a new crew on a first time project, didn\\\'t know what to expect.
Overall, I had an Awesome experience and feel blessed to have a super-talented team and easy to work with crew! I am very happy with what we did in a little time we had!
I will definitely contact them for future project, nice work guys!
- Vien, Voraotsady
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happy composer!
This was my third and by far best 48HFP experience thanks to everybody on Team McReady. We drew Silent Film, which means a lot of pressure for the composer, but the team was so organized and ready to go, shooting midnight to 9AM, editing all day, so I was able to be in my studio with a final cut by 10PM Saturday. Amazing! In the end, I'm as proud of this as I am of any film I've done, 48 hours or no.
The process if anyone's interested - I met with the writer & director late Friday night, went through the script and talked musical ideas, then went home, spent a few hours listening to authentic silent film music and setting up my musical template then got some sleep. I went down to the set/headquarters late morning, caught up on script changes, saw the in-progress edit, then went back to just play around with musical ideas, not recording anything yet. I met up with the team again, got the final cut on a hard drive, went back to my studio and worked my butt off scoring to picture with the ideas I already had in mind. I worked until about 5AM, got a few hours of sleep and was back to it by 10AM. Writer & Director came to my place at 3PM, then we did credits, some video touchups and exports and got it in right on time.
Thanks again to the whole team!! What a dream for a composer on a 48 hour project to have the final cut only 27 hours into it!!
- Randin Graves, McReady
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Another successful Year
This was Solar Shock's fourth 48 Hour Film Project, three of which were here in Salt Lake.
Once again, my team rose to the occasion to produce something we all feel is fantastic- given of course the time constraints.
Every year we have been given a very challenging genre. Our first year was immensely difficult because we hadn't done anything like this before and we had a lot of fun and support working on our first Sci-Fi film.
The second project was Spy and once again a bit more challenging. The third was Thriller/Suspense which was such a fun experience from start to finish. How could this year top last?
Well, this year, after drawing Musical or Western, we decided for a Wild Card and ended up with Foreign film. After a few writing sessions we nailed a story that was provocative, bizarre, and a tad bit eerie with the subject matter we decided upon. The cast was amazing (which is not surprising with my go to cast), and the crew moved quick and fast. Post production went fast and everyone delivered early enough for us to take a few breathers before the drop off.
The Solar Shock team has never disappointed me and this year is no different.
It was also a pleasure to be working with a second team this year as well. Solar Shock helped Entropy with post production and working on both films at the same time was a unique, but very fun experience. And I think both films turned out great! Better than we all had anticipated given the genre and elements.
But thank god for small crews! We had less than 10 people working on this at any given time throughout production and that was an absolute treat in dealing with an already hectic shooting/editing weekend.
- Brandon Young, Solar Shock Pictures
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Capon's - Western - SLC 48hr
This is my 4 year getting to play in the 48hr FP in SLC. Each year, better than the last, and always great fun.
This year we pulled "Western". I watched other teams cringe at the thought but we embraced it with open arms. We had actually hoped for Western as our location was the perfect fit. Made a stop at the DI and was completely outfitted for $13.00.
Our great group of actors and very small crew made it all happen in record time once again. I hope you enjoy our submission and vote for us too.
I loved being at the check in spot Sunday. Some very early and others running up at the last-minute. I got to just visit with many friends, hear story's about and share the weekend's insanity.
Good luck to everyone and I can only hope you had as much fun as we did.
See ya at the movies!
- Bill Gillane, Mishu Films / eLLeSSe Productions
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