48 Hour Film Contest Entry - "Be Mine" Trailer

Steve K

For the 48 Hour Film Project in Houston last weekend, we did a six minute animation in Carrara 8.1 Pro titled "Be Mine". The genre we drew is Romance, the prop a mask, the line of dialogue "It's probably easier than it looks", and the character is R(achael) Andreus, a crew chief. Here is the 48 second trailer (the full video can be uploaded in early June, after the screenings of the ~50 entries):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XbUoz4xzzEM&feature=youtu.be

If you like it, great, if not, well, we only had two days ... :coolsmirk:

NoName99

Looks good, The flying sequence really looks great.
That B&W Photo framed on the wall was really creative too.

Creating a 6 minute short in 2 days must have been intense.

Steve K

dinopt said:

Looks good, The flying sequence really looks great.
That B&W Photo framed on the wall was really creative too.

Creating a 6 minute short in 2 days must have been intense.

Thanks. The reason I enter the annual contest is to goad myself into making a finished animation. There are some very good live action teams that are way above my level. Dozens of people with a lot of specialists. One team had an actor buddy fly in from his job on a soap opera - he was great.

And I like to try some new techniques, like mounting the camera on the front of the plane pointed at the pilot (a memory of old black and white war movies with biplanes). The photo took a lot of work, but I like the way it finally came out (many thanks to Stonemason and the damaged buildings).

Yes, its a caffeine/adrenaline 48 hours. "If you sleep, you're not doing it right."

NoName99

There are some very good live action teams that are way above my level. Dozens of people with a lot of specialists. One team had an actor buddy fly in from his job on a soap opera - he was great.
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This type of thing kind of annoys me. I don't have a problem with professional actors being in a festival film, but it really irks me when the behind the camera talent is made up of Hollywood pros.

Film Festivals for indie-filmmakers like ourselves are not only a creative outlet, but also a place to get some recognition.

That recognition is much harder to get hen the competition includes Hollywood pros using top of the line cameras & proprietary software.

2 years ago I had a VFX heavy film screening at a festival. At the screening I met the filmmakers and VFX artists that worked on the other films in my category...............I KID YOU NOT................they had all worked for ILM, Digital Domain, and several other top VFX houses, with huge blockbuster movies on their resumes.

Those VFX houses all use proprietary VFX software, and also have render farms that cost more than I'll ever make in my life!

Meanwhile, I'm editing and compositing on a laptop using commercially available software (including Daz studio)

So anyways, long story short, I know how you feel.

The positive way to look at it is knowing your film was accepted and is competing against good company.

Steve K

dinopt said:

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So anyways, long story short, I know how you feel.

The positive way to look at it is knowing your film was accepted and is competing against good company.

I may have misled you, I'm not upset. The Houston 48 Hour Film contest is a pretty amateur affair, and all the (paying) teams' films get accepted for screening and judging (until they run out of ~60 spots, then there's a waiting list). I doubt that many of the specialists have the background you mention, but I don't know for sure. The contest has a special agreement with SAG for actors, and the pro I mentioned was actually from Houston before moving to Soap Opera Land (LA?). So he was helping an old buddy who was the director. OK with me.

It is fun to see some of the better films, and then have the audience applaud mine (some more than others :coolhmm: ). Its even better when you hear audience members react during the screening. One young woman went "Oh, nooo ..." at a bad turn for the hero. Another guy kept applauding long after the audience stopped. And a couple of guys went "Geeez..." during a nice shot (if I say so myself) done in Vue. Another couple sought out the contest producer to ask her to tell me they liked it, she said "There he is, tell him yourself." And they did, mostly because I think they enjoyed the change of pace from live action and appreciated the effort involved.

Its not an Oscar nomination, but it feels good. :coolsmile: And as a songwriter once said, "You've got to love all your songs just like your kids, even the buck toothed ugly ones."

P.S. So far I haven't experienced any serious heckles, but it happens even to the best. There is a story about a guy watching "Silence Of The Lambs" in a theater, and he keeps saying loudly "Don't go in there!" when the Jodie Foster character is outside the house of a serial killer. Of course she goes in (Ebert's "idiot plot"), and the guy says "F*** this, I'm outta here!" and leaves to the applause of the audience. (I prefer to think they agree with him rather than just being glad he's gone.)