Again, Team Rampion has triumphed over the 48Hours weekend, getting it in with a mammoth 25mins to spare!
Our genre: REVENGE MOVIE
Our character: ALEX PUDDLE
Character trait: EXAGGERATOR
Dialogue: 'IT DOESN'T FIT.."
Prop: A ROCK
We called the film 'The man with the gravel tongue'. Here are a few shots.
We're in the heats on May 21st.
Some facts about our filming:
- It was 10.30am on saturday before we started filming.
- By midday we'd only done 2 of the 10 scenes.
- By Midnight we'd done about 8.
- By 4pm sunday we'd finished shooting.
-By 5pm sunday we'd finished editing
- By 6.15pm sunday we'd finished sound and Voice Overs
- We had voice coaching in South African accents from australia via internet
- We had a lot of chocolate and lollies
-The director and art director played a gig on sunday morning
- 90% of images were derived from national geographic magazines from 1970-1999.
- At one point we had our frustrated sound man Jared searching for Osama vocal samples (when a mis-communication between producer and Jared had somehow misheard my actual request for Obama sound samples)
- Our producers copy of 'The Secret' provided great inspiration
- We had 3 scripts concurrently which confused almost everyone
-Our first 3 attempts at outputting to tape failed
-We took over Mark's flat unexpectedly and even roped in unexpecting flatmates to our stress circle
- The film is made up of about 1500 still photographs.
Things we learned:
-No matter how calm you are, when you're filming a piece of paper close up on the end of a kebab stick, you won't be able to keep it still.
-Polystyrene is awesome
-Delegation is the key to getting a job done quickly
-Make sure your voice talent doesn't abandon you for other 48hour films.
- a focussing stick is an awesome device
- Camera people get really sore eyebrows from squinting into the viewfinder, possibly inducing headaches.
- We edited with imovie but wouldn't really reccomend it.
Director Claire Cowan, signing off.
Off.
