Journey To Brotherhood - A "Short Film" (Family Genre) for the Nashville 48-Hour Film Project

Winner of Nashville 48 Hour Film Project:
* Best Directing
* Best Production Value
* 1st runner up-Best Cinematography
* 1st runner up-Best "Family" Film
* 2nd runner up-Best Film.

"Journey To Brotherhood" is a "Short Film" created by members of the crew who participated in the Nashville 48-Hour Film Project - July 2009. We were given the genre "Family" at 7:00 pm on Friday, July 17. The film was concepted, shot and edited within 48 hours! Here were the competition RULES. #1: Must use the name "Charlie Little" or "Charlene Little" #2: Must show a still camera in the film #3: Must use the phrase, "I'm still trying to decide what to do." Produced By: Joel Evans, Matt Barker and Will Miller

Thanks to Tennessee National Guard Soldiers for their great talent and for serving!

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• Journey To Brotherhood
• Short
• Film
• Soldier
• Brother
• Short Film
• Will Miller
• Matt Barker
• Joel Evans
• competition
• contest
• festival
• 48
• hour
• nashville
• National Guard

[Guardwarriors]

A comment was accidentally deleted that asked how the explosion was created. Sorry.

We simply created the explosion by throwing dirt clods at the hill and by having Soldier #3 (Darby Ledbetter) kick additional dirt down onto the two Soldiers from the top of the hill. Sorry Darby...no "Best Dirt Kicker" award:):

[editdroid9]

I thought a family film was supposed to be a film you could take tour kids to see, but you had one dude bleeding from his eyes. It's almost like you had one location you were going to use no matter what the assignment was. The 48 is as much about adapting, as it is about film making.

[Guardwarriors]

There is only dirt and sweat on the Soldier's face. We felt that a scene with deployed Soldiers would make for a great family film. The Soldiers are real and were asked to participate early Saturday morning of Day 1. Their comments, although "guided," are also at times very impromptu and are like many conversations these two Soldiers have had while they were deployed. They have lived moments like these in real time.

[yogurtking]

did you use after effects for this?

[Guardwarriors]

Yes, just for the text treatments.

[PlanetSunProductions]

If I may ask, what camcorder did you use to tape this?

[Guardwarriors]

It was shot with a Panasonic HPX-500.

[UxBMakesMontages]

i fucking love this...but where on earth did u find a afghanistan type area in the u.s?

[chile06]

Great quality pic

[Whitetiger187]

Hey james, I didn't know you were into acting, lol. That's pretty cool.

[FabulationRecords]

GREAT JOB!!! What a touching film! I am part of Fighting with Forks, so we were in a different group. Glad you got some recognition for your great work. I'm Torry Martin's friend, so I found this from his FB pics.

Ellen

[yogurtking]

Not to mention the sound is superb.