In September, my company ‘Red Rocket’ endeavored to take part of the internationally re-known film competition the 48 hour film competition. To give you a brief summary of the rules and regulations, we had to create a short film that satisfied the following rules;
- You are given EXACTLY 48 hours to create everything in the film with the exception of planning
- You are given a specific genre to adhere to
- You are given a Character’s name, a line of dialogue, a prop that must be included in the film
- You can only use maximum of 3 Cameras
The project went exceptionally well, we hired out a boxing ring in which we stayed in for the duration of the filming, this was the Poplar boys and girl club. There was a kitchen, pool tables, table tennis, gym equipment, showers, sauna and more! The only thing we didn’t have and that really stumped me as the Producer was the lack of printers. There was 3 printers, one in which that had black ink but would not print without replacing ALL the colour cartridges and the other two identical printers were so old that the manufacture, HP, refuses to distribute the drivers anymore!
The second nightmare of the 48 hours was that, we had a script writer and a very good one at that. Mr Simon Jay who writes for theater, however after writing the script, the director and crew were unhappy with the result. Following that, they decided to make the short envisaged without a script,I objected to this but after deliberation, believed it would be in our best interest.
Everybody worked extremely hard and very well together, acting as one, lead by few. Funds were tight and at best the Director and I ended up fronting majority of the costs.
Check out the fantastic pictures contributed by my good friend Daniel Gregory;
