Filmmaker Jaysen Buterin said the beauty of the 48-Hour Film Project is that it offers filmmakers at every level “a gritty and inherently accurate inside view at just how manic and maniacal any and every aspect of filmmaking can truly be.”
“As with many forms of artistic creativity, the general public seems to have little idea of the vast amount of time, work, effort and creativity that goes into the smallest outlet of that art form,” Buterin said. “The [48-hour Film Project] takes all of that and compresses it into one weekend, so that all of the time one would normally have for pre-planning, forethought, revisions and post-production, gets thrown right out the window at 60[miles per hour] as you race to drop off your film on time and pray to the film gods that your DVD works for the judges.”
The 7th annual Greensboro 48-Film Project will be held June 11-13. A meet and greet session will be held this Friday, May 14 at 6:30 p.m. at the Greensboro Cultural Arts Center in Room 106. Early bird registration ends on May 17.
On June 11, filmmakers and their teams will meet at a predetermined location and receive their marching orders. Filmmakers are given a genre and three elements that must be included in the film — a character, a line of dialogue and a prop. Then they have exactly 48 hours to return with a finished 5 to 7-minute film.
Stephen Hyers, the Greensboro City Arts Drama Director, said the great thing about the 48-Hour Film Festival is that it levels the playing field for filmmakers.
“My first year was just myself, a buddy with a camera and a handful of actors I’d worked with; we jokingly called ourselves ‘The little theatre company that could,” said Hyers. “In later years, I teamed up with more experienced photographers and filmmakers. But anybody can shoot and edit a film, given today’s technology. The trick is being able to tell a story. It’s been a great way to learn by making mistakes.”
Buterin said the key to success in the 48-Hour Film Project is team building.
“There's no doubt whatsoever that the [48-Hour Film Project] is stressful but if you put together the right team, with people that you can trust to do their respective jobs as well as many other tasks that you can’t possibly plan for until they rear their ugly time-delaying head, then it is one of the best filmmaking experiences that anyone can have,” Buterin said. “Even if they never make another film again, at the very least they have something that will stand the test of time, their own creative notch on the artistic headboard of movie madness.”
Anyone interested in participating in the 48-hour film project should visit: http://www.48hourfilm.com/greensboro.
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