For those who don’t know, the 24 Hour Film Festival recently occurred last weekend, and my team’s submission made the top-24 list eligible for award!
The 24 Hour Film Fest is an event in Orlando where participants take part in a film contest. The goal is for each team to make a film, 3 to 5 minutes in length, in the course of twenty four hours. That’s not all; each team has restrictions that apply to their film, restrictions that they’re not aware of until the contest begins. At the contest kick-off time (9 am) each team is assigned a genre their film should conform to, a list of props from which they should choose three, and a line that must be said in the movie.
This means we can’t even start writing what the movie is about until the kickoff time, giving us 24 hours to go from concept to finished product: from 9 am to 9 am next day. My team came up with a solid story relatively fast and we seemed to be ahead of schedule. The biggest problem was that it had to be an outside setting, and the weather was trying to rain all day. This meant starting and stopping the shoot several times. Luckily all the shots were attained, and the film was finished. Out of all the submissions, the top 24 are chosen to be part of a screening and to be aired on PBS as well as being eligible for one of three prizes.
The Festival is financed by at least 29 sponsors, some of which are companies that appeal to the film crowd, advertising cheap filmmaking equipment or training; others merely offer samples of services in hopes of gaining customers. Red Bull even gave free energy shots assuming the contestants would find this useful for the all-nighter.
http://www.orlando24hourfilm.com/
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