message in a bottle

The story of a broken man.
This is my entry for the croydon film festival 48 hour challenge, it was shown in full at the award night and we won the runner up prize.
We were given the brief on friday at 6pm and gave in the finished film 2 days later on sunday at 6pm.
The brief stated that our genre must be 'Drama' and the two objects that must be in the film somewhere were 'A multi-pack of Walkers crisps' and '28 helium balloons'.
In that time I wrote the story, gathered actors and crew, found props, found a location, filmed, edited, and organised music to be written.
This film could not have gone so well if not for Peter Burgess (the man in the film), he helped me with the story, drove me and the crew around, blew up balloons, acted, co-edited and drove me to the submission location with 5 minutes to spare.

I would also like to say a big thank you to:
Zak Macpherson
Fearghall Kilkenny Fletcher
Sam Robson
Christopher Allen
and last but not least Priya Curtis for telling me about the competition.

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[four58films]

I remember seeing this being screened at Croydon clock tower. Well done for getting runner up, well deserved, great short!

[frooglepipblump]

@four58films Hey thanks alot, did i talk to you on at the screening? i'm really bad with names so even if you told me i might not remember. Did you enter a film as well?

[thegiddyfiddler]

An extremely dangerous way to each a crisp sandwich, very succeptable to getting gum shanked. I prefer to eat some crisps then chew up some bread with it, the ketchup element would definately increase the difficulty in my method but you know what they say, safety before sauce.

[frooglepipblump]

@thegiddyfiddler Yes indeed ketchup would decrease eating simplicity not to mention public presentability. even though safety is important when considering such a harmful edible devise as a meal, however as you no doubt will have notices in this situation a few bleeding gums would make no real difference to the overall circumstances of the consumer.

[mcvibe]

This is fantastic, I love the whole mis-en-scene. The bench was the perfect location, suited it perfectly. The music was very powerful and the fact that you chose to have no spoken dialogue made it even more so.

So contrast of the red balloons against the perfectly blue sky was a grand ending, well done!