sweet bad news
it sounds like at least a couple of us worked on 48hr films this year. i mentioned a few weeks ago that i scored a film in the DC competition. our team, besides being named after one of the more awesome (stolen) words in the english language, turned out to be one of the more awesome teams.
DC had its "best-of" screenings on thursday with the awards after the late show. most of sprezzatura productions showed up for the screening, where, to our delight and shock, we won best film! earlier in the awards "ceremony," we won best script, and i think that would have been enough for us. stephen guidry of the cassettes directed the film and led the surprisingly large team. he also ended up editing it because our editor got sick. so i think it was an especially rewarding win for him. he could hardly speak. there were a lot of good entries and more than a hundred teams had entered the contest. i'm not sure how many actually submitted films.
watching it on the big screen was a mixed experience. the film itself turned out unexpectedly well, but it didn't sound so great. i didn't get to score to picture lock, of course, so i had just written several themes that we were planning to cut for the different scenes. we ended up with only 10 minutes to drop the score in, so all my little themes didn't really end up where they were intended to be. all the volumes are wildly different and sometimes the music is barely audible or way too loud. all in all, though, it worked ok.
so here it is, in all its 48 hour glory: the bad news bearer*, presented by sprezzatura productions.**
DC had its "best-of" screenings on thursday with the awards after the late show. most of sprezzatura productions showed up for the screening, where, to our delight and shock, we won best film! earlier in the awards "ceremony," we won best script, and i think that would have been enough for us. stephen guidry of the cassettes directed the film and led the surprisingly large team. he also ended up editing it because our editor got sick. so i think it was an especially rewarding win for him. he could hardly speak. there were a lot of good entries and more than a hundred teams had entered the contest. i'm not sure how many actually submitted films.
watching it on the big screen was a mixed experience. the film itself turned out unexpectedly well, but it didn't sound so great. i didn't get to score to picture lock, of course, so i had just written several themes that we were planning to cut for the different scenes. we ended up with only 10 minutes to drop the score in, so all my little themes didn't really end up where they were intended to be. all the volumes are wildly different and sometimes the music is barely audible or way too loud. all in all, though, it worked ok.
so here it is, in all its 48 hour glory: the bad news bearer*, presented by sprezzatura productions.**
*clicking on the bad news bearer links above will take you to the little web page that someone on the team created with some funny photos of the making of the film, including some great shots of the van used in the film. the van is owned by a canadian guy who coincidentally also works for nasa.
**i can't seem to get the imbedded video here to stop cutting off the bottom fo the window with the video controls. it's like this on the badnewsbearer.com site, as well. if anyone (justin?) knows how to fix this, please do!
1 Comments:
finally got to watch this. very entertaining. i know the pain of last minute music placement and it did seem a bit random at points but it worked more often than not, and clever story and good photography and fun acting carry the day in things like this. Congratulations on winning!
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