So. A week after the thing is over, I finally have our entry up on YouTube.

[link]

Please forgive the bars and tone. They were required for submission. I will link DA accounts to DA people involved in the production. Considering the genre we drew, i don't think we did too bad of a job in 48 Hours. Everyone on the crew busted their ass to make something great and understandable. By most accounts, we achieved just that.

I will also recommend some of the other films from the event I have seen and enjoyed:
[link] - A Man About a Dog: Audience Choice Winner (my favorite of the ones on YouTube. I say it again. WATCH THIS ONE.)

[link] - Revenant: This didn't win anything but it is a great genre piece, if a little on the corny side. It probably SHOULD have won something, but a few of the awards were....confusing selections to say the least.

Sadly, I have not been able to find the film that took it all. It was crafted by local production company Perpombellar Productions. They don't make a habit of putting their stuff on public venues like YouTube. They do great work, though. And I am shocked they didn't receive best cinematography since the DP for that group is phenomenal.

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Would I do this again?
DEFINITELY NOT IN SAVANNAH. At least not with the same judges or admin. The whole competition was a mess of confusion and the pickup event was a bunch of rule-mongering and complaining. (even on my part, sadly)

I DO respect the city producer for taking the initiative on getting an official 48 hour contest out here, but i think there NEEDS to be more unification of what the official rules and requirements are and the paperwork we were handed at the pickup event. We had no less than THREE different version of what the competition wanted from us for our final render. The result for us was turning in a piss-poor resolution version of our project that was CODED TO THEIR SPECS. Then i found out that it can be ANY file format we want as long as you can drop it in a timeline. Great. Thanks for the heads up. Oh yes, and did I mention that one team got to re-draw their genre AFTER everyone had locked theirs in because of a technical oversight on the part of the local chapter? That does not seem fair to me. no sir.

Hopefully, next years competition will be better organized and less confusing for all involved. And hopefully, we won't get stuck with trying to figure out how to make a fantasy genre film in Savannah, GA.

-AG3