Before the sun gets to rise

These last few weeks have been a whirlwind of awesome and emotion.

Immediately after it was all over, I was gratefully distracted from my Harry Potter depression by my last-minute participation in the 48 Hour Film Festival. For the uninitiated, it is film festival/competition held in hundreds of cities around the world. Basically, teams competing in the festival have exactly 48 hours to write, shoot, edit, and score a short film. At 7pm on Friday, the teams in each city are given four elements (a prop, a character, a line of dialogue, and a genre) to include in their films. Nashville’s elements were:

• Character: Pearl or Paul Duncan - Driver
• Line of Dialogue: “Tell me how you really feel.”
• Prop: Flowers

Each team draws a genre out of a hat (it can be anything from sci-fi to Western/Musical) and my team (thankfully) drew “Mockumentary.” We nailed down a concept and in the end, we were fortunate to have so many talented friends around Nashville that were willing to help us out. After a sleepless marathon of a weekend, it felt good to turn in our completed film with all the paperwork on-time! We definitely celebrated afterwards. Here is a screenshot/sneak peak:

There were 54 teams in Nashville this year. Generally 20% of teams do not turn their films in on-time, but apparently this year only 16 of 54 films made the deadline (which means only 16 are eligible for judging). Crazy! The best part of it all though is that on July 27th our film will be screened for us and others who buy tickets at the Belcourt theater! I’ll be sure to post it here as soon as we’re allowed to. 

After the 48HFP, I had a super busy week with the Pipeline Project. My module has been working hard on securing a location, band, and other details for our event. Pipeline’s other case-study/event was last Friday too, so we were busy preparing all the small details that come with event planning. The concept of our business model for Friday’s event was a live recording session with food and fans. It went really well imho, and I’m looking forward to what this model might bring in the future. You can read a little bit more about the concept on the tumblr linked above, we’ll probably be blogging about it soon!