...It's all about How you tell the story...

 

Check this space for updates during the 48 Hour Film Project Competition.

Telephone contacts:
Helen Lightfoot, Producer 940-1059
Richard Haas, Director 565-2277
Gary Schweda, Casting Director, 626-6335

Sunday, June24th, 9:31PM

Hi everyone!

We made the deadline today with 30 minutes to spare, and Jessica drove like a maniac to the dropoff point at Mangia Pizza on Guadalupe, ran over the curve doing an impomptu u-turn in her beautiful truck with Richard and Gary hanging on for dear life in the back seat.. I was thinking along the way, oh man, all we need is a speeding ticket . . we could say one of us is having a heart attack, but if we got a police escort to the hospital it would be in the wrong direction! And Poor Richard somehow did not get the message that the deadline was 7:30 instead of 7:00, so he was willing to take on any bet that we wouldn't make it - we should have taken him up on it! - and he was ready to strangle all of us when he found out the truth. I did tell him, but he said something like, "Sure, that's a good one!" and promptly forgot it.

One of our big mistakes (there were many) was not using the clapper to mark the beginning of our scenes - we didn't even think of it until we were through shooting, and it took us much longer to line up the two camera takes, and a couple of our alternate takes never made it into the movie. We also encountered some computer finickyness this afternoon, and for awhile I was afraid that our hard drive had crashed. Also, for some reason we could never determine, we lost the sound on Richard's voiceover of the letter from the dearly departed although everything else on that track worked fine, and even thougn we re-imported it over and over and pushed every button imagineable and even checked the instructions (always the last resort), we could NOT correct the sound problem on that one piece, so we had to backtrack to our backup (fortunately we had one!) so a lot of our final edits never made it into the movie, durn it.

Just about everything we did from sound to paperwork could have been done better, but we did our best and we learned a heck of a lot! With another hour our movie would have been much more polished, but considering the time limitations and the frustrations we encountered, we are nevertheless very proud of our first effort.

We so very much appreciate the contributions of time, effort and a few donations that we received from so many of you, and we regret that we didn't have a slot for everyone who wanted to be involved.

We will throw a wrap party sometime after July 1st, and we will give a DVD of the movie to everyone there. In the meantime, I am toast after the past few nights and I'm hitting the hay!

Thanks again for all your hard work.

 

Helen

Friday, June 22, 11PM

We have a plot for our Road Movie, and unfortunately it is mostly a guy movie, but we will use 2 of our ladies in short parts.

Here is the list of actors as it stands now:

Maggie Maye
Darryl Walker
Kirk Lansdon
Bob Swaffar
Carlye Bonner
Paul Rosoff
Gary Schweda

Everyone except Carlye and Paul should meet at the corner of 290 W and Circle Drive at 10 AM, at the gas station on the NW corner. To get a good map, go to www.maps.google.com and type in "290 w and circle drive" - leave off the quotes.

Carlye will need to report at a later time and place to be determined.

Paul will be in the last scene we shoot, and we will

Call me after 7AM if you need more info.

Helen
940-1059

 

Friday, June 22, 8PM
OK, we now have the specifics of what our movie will be about!
Genre: Road Movie
Character: Mile or Millie Turner, Trainer
Prop: Fishing rod or fishing pole
Line of Dialoge: "How did you know I was here?"

We are mulling over the plot, but it looks right now that it will involve Richard's hot rod gang, and they make a trip to the a victorian house (The Wright House) to comfort the ex partner of the dead found of the hot rod club.

Stay tuned!

 

 

 

Friday, June 22, 8am.
Richard Haas, our Director, and I had a tough time sleeping past 4:30 AM but we made ourselves do it! Our camera man, Kurt Graber, will come in from Dallas this morning and we will review all the equipment. The writers and head crew members will gather together by 6PM or so to begin our mad journey as we wait on to see what genre we draw out of the hat. It's gonna be fun!

Sundagger to Compete in the
48 Hour Film Project!

On Friday June 22, 2007 at 7PM a multitude of Austin production teams (25 are currently registered) will receive a genre, a character, a prop and a line of dialog to incorporate into a 4-7 minute film which must be scripted, shot, edited, scored and submitted within 48 hours. All competing entries will be screened at a local theater, and the winning Austin entry will compete at the national level with winners from other cities.

Recently seventeen competing 48 Hour Films were screened on May 17 in Cannes, France as part of the 60th Cannes International Film Festival. Films produced during 48 Hour competitions can also be uploaded for online viewing and submitted to film festivals and television stations, and other media venues. For More Information go to www.48hourfilm.com. Who knows, we may go to France next year!

For more information contact:

Sundagger Productions
2311 Sheri Oak Lane
Austin, TX 78748
email: helen@sundagger.org

(512) 282-7063