Chapter | Forty-Eight
48-Hour Film Schedule: Make a 5-Minute Film in 48 Hours
OVERVIEW
You’ve got the creative bug; you can’t hang around planning for weeks. You need a hit-and-run project and you want it now. Here’s how to think up, shoot, edit and show your movie all in one weekend. Start Friday 6pm and finish Sunday 6pm – one film richer.
Check out www.instantfilms.tv – a company that makes movies in two days.
You need:
- Three people, plus however many actors you need (limit this to three main roles to make logistics easier)
- Camera; batteries; tripod; four × 60 minute DV tapes; one strong lamp; white reflector board or sheet; smaller lamp; shotgun/boom mic; tie-clip mic
Table 48.1 Make a movie in 48 hours.
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