The Last Piece, a 48 Hour Film

#1

A couple weeks ago I directed a short film for the 48 Hour Film Project in Columbus Ohio. The film was scripted, shot, edited and turned in within 48 hours and there were several required elements that had to be included.

Check it out on our website or the slightly larger version on Vimeo. I’d like to hear comments and critiques.

The film won Best Musical Score and Best Use of the Columbus Landmark. It was also honorable mention for Best Editing, Best Cinematography and Best Use of Character in the 2008 Columbus 48 Hour Film Project.

#2

Very nice work Tobias, I like how it finished although it haven’t any CG involved thought as supposed to not in just 48 horses!
Ok! First of all, congratulations for the Award wining buddy, :wink:
so as a common audience I will say I liked the film! :slight_smile:
as for characters, really good work you did for main character but I think the second one needs more tweaks to giving her an story that wouldn’t say thought but it have to carry one in my look! dunno but she was like a “?” for me!

anyway as I said don’t take my words so serious! just my opinion! it was great work overall and well reserved for the awards, :slight_smile:

Cheers, mim.Armand

#3

Hey Dude ! just saw your film, great editing good story and important intention !!! :wink:
How long did it take to reallize this film ?..do you got some postpro notes,maybe ?

Cheers Herne

#4

Thanks for the comments mim-Armand and Herne. The entire film was created in 48 hours that includes writing the script, filming, editing turning in the final piece and in our case writing the music as well.

Our entire team was 14 people so almost everyone filled a couple roles. Our caterer also did Hair and Makeup, the DP did the second round of edits and the Color Correction, one of the writers was the 2nd camera op and another one was an actor, etc…

The script was written over 8 hours by a team of 5 writers.
Principal photography took 17+ hours and was shot on two Panasonic HVX200s at 720pn24 with custom gamma and cine settings.
After the initial rough edit was done (5 hours), the edit was tightened up (8 hours). The editing was done on a single FinalCut station on a Quad G5 tower.
Color Correction was done in 1.5 hours and was done extensively with Ben Allen’s Grading Sweet Pro.
The end titles were created by shooting a sun set captured at 4 frames every second—then the footage was time ramped in Shake and composited over custom puzzle pieces in AfterEffects.
During the post process the music was composed (16 hours) and the audio was mixed, foley sound gather and processed (4.5 hours).

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