So, here’s the story of this year’s 48 Hour Film.
As always, we had lots of ideas — story ideas, location ideas, etc. — all of which went into the bin when we actually got started.
In case you haven’t heard of the 48 Hour Film Project, here’s the gist: teams make short films in two days, but they aren’t allowed to do anything before the start of the project. At the kickoff, teams draw a genre from a hat, and they are assigned a character, prop, and line of dialogue that must appear in the film.
This year, there was a twist that in some ways worked in our favor: the right to name the character was auctioned off for charity, and won by Tim Tate, a glass artist and neighbor of our director Jon Gann.
What character did Tim Tate choose?
Who else? Tim Tate!
The genre we were assigned was “horror.” So we were in the position of making a horror film with Tim as a character, and worried about presenting him in a manner that wouldn’t leave acrimony between the two neighbors.
I’m making this a longer story than it has to be.
Suffice it to say, we made a horror film that included Tim (we used actual interviews with Tim as his dialogue and filmed in his apartment, although he was not allowed to appear in person)… and despite the horrible things we made his character do, he still enjoyed the portrayal!
Interesting facts: although we filmed last year’s entry in high definition, this is the first time we edited and finished a film in HD. For the first time, we did all editing, graphics, and effects using a laptop: my MacBook Pro handled the HD footage as easily as standard definition DV.
Without further adieu, take a look at “Lasting Impressions.” These files require the latest version of Quicktime.
Required Elements:
Genre: Horror
Character: Tim Tate, gay glass artist extraordinare
Prop: fire extinguisher
Dialogue: “This is the absolutely the last time.”
in all of the 98 teams blogs from the entire 48 hour film festival, yours were the only nasty and mean spirited comments made.
this says a lot about your character.
just because you are chronically unhappy with your life is no reason to be a bitter mean queen….grow up
I have to say, I didn’t think I was being nasty or mean-spirited — I was merely laying out my perception of the persona you’ve been so careful to cultivate when I am around, which is admittedly not very often.
That said, if my remarks were perceived by you as hurtful, I wholeheartedly apologize and hereby retract them, begging your forgiveness and understanding as I obviously haven’t taken the appropriate amount of time to really get to know what’s under the Tim Tate bluster.