48 Hour Film Fest

This weekend I competed in a 48 Hour Film contest, in which my team had to write, shoot and edit a 4 - 7 minute film in 48 hours. The organizers assign teams different genres, but every team has to use the same prop (pumpkin), character (Bob Johnson) and line of dialogue ("I don't know, I'm not a dentist.").

There are thousands of entries every year in similar contests. Here is the national winner from last year, the fantastic Mimes on the Prairie. Here is the second place entry — which I only mention because it was created by a team called Scattershot — The Write Stuff.

And if you can't stop watching the 48 hour movies, YouTube has hundreds of them. Breakin' Hearts was the best one I found over there. Obviously, it's a breakdancing musical.



If you want to try your hand at 48 hour filmmaking, this weekend you can compete in the National Film Challenge, which is actually international.