The Big Picture - 48 Hour Film Project Asheville 2010 - Winner, Best Cinematography

Note - This version has been slightly modified from the one submitted to the festival.

The 48 Hour Film Project is a world-wide contest that challenges filmmaking teams to write, shoot, edit, score, and submit a short film within a given 48 hour time limit. This year our team, Homicidal Mandrill Productions, participated in the cinematic sport hosted in Asheville, North Carolina. Given three mandatory elements—a prop (a bottle), a character (Mike or Monica Vasquez, singer), and a line of dialogue ("That sure looks good to me")—and a randomly pulled genre (Silent Film), we competed against 30 other teams to produce the now award-winning short The Big Picture.
After being dealt this hand, our crew of about 15 creators set out with our pencils, cameras, lights, computers, and a seemingly endless supply of coffee and beer (thanks, Colin). Our first sleepless night, comprised of laughter and arguments, resulted in a screenplay and storyboard for a silent film noir crime thriller. The next 20-or-so hours were spent filming each shot in that storyboard in velvet costumes and three-piece suits in 100 degree weather...and brewing more coffee. We spent the next 10 hours sleeping. Just kidding. In those hours our editors risked eye-injury and overall sanity in front of their computer screens, meticulously making sequential sense of our silent scenes. And after all was said and done, the sound designers still had to compose a score that would carry the entire picture. The clock ticked faster and harder than ever, but 48 hours past and we made a movie. We couldn't have done it without the help from every single person involved, and for that Homicidal Mandrill can't thank anyone enough.

Staring - Kevin Condon
Lindsey Rourke
Tim Sassanian
Andrew Giles
Liam Rolfe

Produced/Directed by Colin Rolfe

Cinematography by Ryan Grant

Art Direction/Compositing by Brian Pace & Andrew Narayan

Written by Erica Cline, Matt Virgil, Matt Geis & Kevin Condon

Original Score by Tim Sassanian & Andrew Giles

Camera Operation by Ryan Grant & Chris Lang

Cut by Laura Allen, Derek Selles & Colin Rolfe

Production Assistance by Derek Selles, Laura Allen & Matt Geis

Production Photography by Meghan Rolfe

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• 48 Hour Film Fest
• Asheville
• Cinematography
• Big
• Picture
• Silent
• Film
• Short
• Black and White
• Homicidal
• Mandrill

[Cotygeek]

This is very well shot. What did you shoot this with?

[homicidalmandrill]

@Cotygeek Panasonic AG-HVX200A. Did a bit of post touch-ups too.

[NewAgeDirector]

Great video keep up the good work.

[Mickysindahouse]

wow! Im impressed! Im going to be joining this competition this year, i hope it will be good! Great job btw!

[monkeywhaler]

Really well done.

[MyLifeIsADog1]

great film!

[crila]

48 hours of my life well spent!