Surviving the 48
Bogwood successfully completed our entry to the 48 Hour Film Project — with 20 minutes to spare. Here’s how the 48 hours broke down:
Friday Night/Early Saturday
- 7:00 PM – received genre, prop, character, and line of dialogue
- 7:00 PM-8:00 PM – brainstormed 10 ideas
- 8:25 PM – settled on an idea
- 8:30-10:30 PM- acquired props, called cast, crew, and locations
- 9:30 PM – outlined story
- 12:30 PM – shooting script complete
- 3:15 AM – asleep
Saturday
- 4:30 AM – wake up; gather props and gear
- 4:45 AM – Lead actress Jessi gets her hair done
- 6:00 AM – call time at our first location
- 9:00 AM – call time at our second location
- 6:30 PM – wrap shooting
- 7:00-9:15 PM – transcoded footage
- 9:15-Midnight – picked takes; organized footage
Sunday
- 5:00 AM – begin edit
- Noon – rough cut complete
- 4:00 PM – audio synching complete
- 5:00 PM – color complete
- 5:45 PM – audio mix complete
- 6:15 PM – titles complete
- 6:55 PM – rendering and two data DVDs burned
- 7:20 PM – film handed in to 48 Hour Film Project Staff
Some interesting stats about our production:
- Shooting script: 11 pages, 70+ shots
- Film run time: 5 minutes, 6 seconds – including titles
- Locations: 2
- Actors with speaking roles: 10
- Background actors: 3
- Crew: 9
- First time crew: 5
- Injuries on set: 1 (lead actress Jessi got rug burns on her elbows)