48 Hour Film Project - \"No Good Deed\"

This past weekend I participated in a 48 Hour Film Project. It is a competition where teams are assigned a film genre at random, told to incorporate certain elements (a prop, a character, and line of dialogue) and then given 48 hours to make a movie.

I connected with a team led by a former coworker, and I was the principal photographer and editor. Over the entire weekend I slept for maybe 6 hours total, otherwise fueled by Dunkin Donuts, adrenaline, and the immense pressure of meeting our deadline.

The film genre we pulled was "Silent Film". At first we lamented this idea because it is our first-ever attempt at this challenge, and Silent Film sounded like it could have been a very tough genre. However we came up with a story that worked well without any dialogue, figured out how to add our required elements, and created a film.

http://youtu.be/khZqagLPJSQ

A couple random pics from the last few days:

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Shooting a scene. I'm the tubby guy with the camera.

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Our lead actor, director, and me at the premiere screening on Wednesday night. The most rewarding part of the experience was seeing my work on the same movie screen where I saw Avatar, in front of a full theater.