• We won the Saint Louis 48-hour Film Festival
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The 48-hour Film Festival is an international event hosted in several dozen cities around the world. A local brewery and a radio station started picking it up for our city, Saint Louis, a couple of years ago, and it's attracted a lot of attention among our small artistic community. The premise behind the festival is simple: each team has only forty-eight hours to write, shoot, edit, and submit their film to the judges. At the beginning of the time limit, a random theme is drawn (along with a specific character, prop, and line of dialog), and then given to each team who must turn it into a short film. I found out about this through my dad, who is friends with a local independent production company called Firstpunch Productions. Firstpunch invited us to come out and join the set as extras, which we more than happy to do because that sounded awesome. We drew "Western," and had to incorporate a character named Daniel Lee (sports trainer), a broom, and the line "I'd rather not." We decided to have a bit of fun with it by making the most by-the-books Western possible, with a funny twist at the end. The end-result turned out pretty damn cool, and we ended up winning Best Film, Best Actress, Best Costumes, [i]and[/i] Best Cinematography. There were forty-seven other entries to compete with. Our film will now go on to compete nationally, and if we place high enough in the next branch, it could even be aired at the Cannes Film Festival in front of thousands! This was an incredibly cool experience, and seeing yourself on the big screen and listening to a theater full of people laugh at your jokes was refreshing as hell. Actually [b]winning[/b] was entirely unexpected (we figured the winning piece would have gay themes and a crying clown--given our city's reputation for pretentious, beret-wearing posers among the art community), so this is doubly rockin'. Here's our entry: [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u_Ru-lICV9A[/media] [img]http://kdhx.org/media/k2/items/cache/5ca0fa757f80a615cb73843bcc8ddb7b_L.jpg[/img]
That was really good! Loved the twist :smile:
oh wow that's probably the best movie i've ever seen on here, i absolutely love it! hope you win that international shit. big tings agwarn for guys like you
That was excellent,i'm not a professional or anything but it kind of lacked that yellow-orange hue that western movies have now days. Still its great that you won, you deserved it.
That was really good for only 48-hours to write, and produce it! So, what did you win? just pride?
That was great, you guys really captured that western feel. Good luck in the next round.
before fifty other people show up, I'll say it here- fully expected [sp]deal with it[/sp] also I'm highlighting it, this is too good man.
Congratulations on winning! You certainly deserved it. I thoroughly enjoyed the soundtrack and general feeling of the film. My only crit would be that some shots seemed to be a tad out of focus.
Wait which one was you? The guy in the staring contest, or one of the cronies?
Amazing work! You deserved all the praise and awards!
[QUOTE=DainBramageStudios;30589696]Wait which one was you? The guy in the staring contest, or one of the cronies?[/QUOTE] no hes the girl
The guy in the sombrero cracked me up.
This was fun to watch :D I loved it.
Congrats! I got a good laugh out of it. Good luck in the next round!
Very nicely done, awesome work!
Nice! Did you appear in it at all, or were you a backstage extra? Also, I find it funny the studio's name was 'Firstpunch'. Hehe.
That's a nice dress you got BDA.
That was really well done. I absolutely loved it.
Amazing cinematography, very well done!
I don't get it.
Did anyone else stop blinking too :v:
Hello, Zach Schneider.
[QUOTE=DainBramageStudios;30589696]Wait which one was you? The guy in the staring contest, or one of the cronies?[/QUOTE] [img]http://a8.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc6/251606_10150203737207874_558172873_7195946_7717312_n.jpg[/img] I'm the candid cowboy on the right. To the left is our swarthy "Mexican" from Pakistan. I spoke one line!
I thoroughly enjoyed that, congratulations on winning.
[QUOTE=cccritical;30590384]Hello, Zach Schneider.[/QUOTE] Howdy, Evan K.
... I'm not sure I understood the twist :saddowns:
[QUOTE=Big Dumb American;30590458]Howdy, Evan K.[/QUOTE] well son of a bitch, that didn't work like I expected
[QUOTE=Max of S2D;30590473]... I'm not sure I understood the twist :saddowns:[/QUOTE] The audience was supposed to think that shit was about to [i]go down[/i]. Gunslinger postures, nerves on edge, and the dead-eyed stares. The "twist" was supposed to be that all that was really happening was a staring contest. She won a pair of sunglasses to protect her eyes against the harsh Midwestern sun. They are her most valuable asset as a professional starer. It's a serious business.
the name gave away that twist, I had a hunch when I read it but the opening title scene with her looking at the camera made me pretty sure of it. also I thought you worded that bad and said 'SHE was about to [i]go down[/i]' and got all immature and giggly
[QUOTE=daijitsu;30590807]the name gave away that twist, I had a hunch when I read it but the opening title scene with her looking at the camera made me pretty sure of it. also I thought you worded that bad and said 'SHE was about to [i]go down[/i]' and got all immature and giggly[/QUOTE] [img]http://kdhx.org/media/k2/items/cache/5ca0fa757f80a615cb73843bcc8ddb7b_L.jpg[/img]
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