The Home Stretch...

The 2007 48 Hour Film Project fast approaches. Just one week from... well, right about now, we will be dumping our finished film out to tape for the mad cross-town rush to drop it off at the Warehouse Theater. We’ve got a pretty great team returning this time around, but I did want to draw your attention to a couple of welcome additions. First, we have Robin Brande, author of the upcoming YA novel Evolution, Me & Other Freaks of Nature, who has graciously stepped in as our writer. And second (thanks to a last-minute agreement between SAG and the 48 Hour Film Project organizers) is actress Mary Lechter, founder of A Class Act: Acting for Young People & Adults. We are extremely honored to be working with them both, and eagerly anticipate our best entry yet.

No pressure or anything... ;-)

From this point forward, we’ll be switching production-based communication over to a smaller, dedicated mailing list, so that casual fans won’t be bombarded with every little detailed announcement. So if you want to come aboard (and haven’t let me know already), please be sure to speak now!

I also want to make one final plea for locations — we want to get as wide a variety of potential shooting spots as possible, and we’re trying to assemble a complete list of potential assets for Robin to work with. So if you’ve got anything that we can use, please let us know ASAP. Unusual is great, but ordinary is still necessary.

So for those of you on the team, we’ll be chatting more soon. For the rest of you, we’ll be in touch about screenings once we catch our collective breath!

The Hour Fast Approaches...

I know I, for one, am surprised at how quickly the 48 Hour Film Project has come. Yes, for those of you who haven’t checked your calendars lately, the competition is in just two weeks — May 4th through the 6th. And as usual, it seems like we’ve got a lot of work to do between now and then.

I’ve already heard from several of our regulars regarding their availability, but many others either have not yet responded or were tentative in their commitments. If you fall into one of those latter categories (or if your plans have changed), please let me know as soon as possible if you’ll be able to join us this time around. The big shooting day will be Saturday the 5th, but we could also use some editing and postproduction help through Sunday, if you’re so inclined.

In addition, as always, we are on the lookout for interesting or unusual locations, props, or other quirky components you may be able to contribute to the effort (or, frankly, regular locations, props, or components). So please pass those along so we can start assembling our list of potential “assets”; we’ll want to have a fairly complete inventory of our capabilities for the writers to work with — no sense writing in a 1955 Chevy if we don’t actually have one (and if we do have one, we’d be crazy not to write it in).

More details on the specifics to come across the next two weeks, so stay tuned!