Smugglers - Sydney 48 Hour Film Project 2010

Our award winning entry for the Sydney leg of the 2010 48 hour film project .We won Best Director and Best Actor for Gary Boulter.

Adventure Serial was our genre and the required elements were:

Line of Dialogue - "I had a moment of weakness"
Prop - Membership Card
Character - Dr Charlie or Charlotte Warburton

Starring: Gary Boulter as The Boss, Kit McDee as the Blu Ray Smuggler, Russell Jeffery as the DVD Smuggler and Nastassja Djalog as Dr Charlotte Warburton.

This was filmed on the Panasonix HVX202 with the Redrock Micro M2e and flip adaptor, and edited on Avid MC5.

Many thanks to all involved.

Category:

Comedy

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• 48
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• comedy
• adventure
• serial
• kit
• mcdee
• adam
• khamis
• crime
• russell
• jeffery
• gary
• boulter
• redrock
• hvx
• 202
• m2e
• p2
• showbiz
• funny
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• award
• winning

[StuartHaight]

Would you sharing with me if you used meta data to help organize the P2 footage?

Did you have a laptop to dump the footy, then use a meta data editor to edit scene/take number, to make the editor's life easier? I'm having a hard time figuring out how to do the steps properly, and have read somewhere that Avid doesn't read XML files, which is where the meta data is edited within the P2 card's contents folder.

I'm trying to learn metadata workflow as you can see.

Thanks!

Stu Haight

[sealevelfilms]

@StuartHaight

Hi Stuart. Thanks for the comments.

Unfortunately I can't help you with your questions as we didn't use any meta data in post. Since I'd be in the edit, I dumped the cards to an external drive and quickly scanned through the footage in the P2 viewer to get a sense of what might be good to use.

Then we did a straight AMA import into Avid MC5 and edited directly from there. It also helped that there wasn't a great deal of footage to have to go through.

[kalaniman1movies]

Congrats on a fantastic film!

Kalani Gacon - cinematographer of 'Hitch'

[wwwStarNowcom]

Hi guys,

What a fantastic film! Loved watching it. A huge congratulations to Gary for winning Best Actor and to Adam Khamis for winning Best Director.

[StuartHaight]

@sealevelfilms

Hey thanks for responding. I'm figuring it out now, just a series of trial and error.

I'm a bit more comfortable with it now. I'm practicing and figuring out that I can place markers for claps, like for multicam syncing. I'd do it in the field, then in post, the editor just snaps to the markers which show up when AMA'd into the Avid. Helps alot actually, problem is my cam isn't even P2, it's AVCHD, with panasonic's fast Mpeg to P2 freeware transcoder. It degrades slightly.

[StuartHaight]

"otherwise I shall get a DILDO" oh man that was hilarious