Big deal, get me a camcorder and I'll make you a half-hour flick the moment I turn that sucker on.

For the love of God, keep Jar Jar away from the camera!

LOL, Malinosis. then again, if Jar Jar's gonna be around a camera, the back side of it is as good a place as any

Malinois, even. looks like it's time for a beer.

What's the big deal.. I'm pretty sure some porno films are made in less time.

That's really an impressive thing to do. Making even a short flick takes a lot of work.

www.instantfilms.tv

BrandonSi: and pr0n surely is more lucrative. And fun.

Heh, I'll agree on both points, Megain.

GIS for "Dog Breath":

If he thinks this is going to make up his karma debt for foisting the voice of Jar Jar onto humanity, he has another think coming..


-karma police

That's how they made this movie.

I thought thats how long it took for most movies these days to be made?

Imagine having just 48 hours to write, shoot, edit and present a short film.

It sounds impossible but that's just what a group of filmmakers in Los Angeles are doing for the website instantfilms.tv.

Sounds like a profitable internet business run on a solid economic model to me.

yeah, this is way better than actually producing something of artistic merit.

Some good movies came out of this.

What's the big deal? The Seattle International Film Festival has been doing this for years. They call it something like "On the Fly Filmmaking."

That's nothing..

Lonely Island has been doing the same thing in less than 24 hours for some time now... and their movies are actually pretty funny.

I also work at
Trailervision.com & we do that sort of thing all the time.

When you are done visiting those sites, check out my Fark-like guide to streaming video movies at SilverSow.com

Act 1, Scene 1

JAR JAR
oh ani, meesa gonna direkt now, muy muy much!!

wow ... for once .. i think the fark crowd needs to just stop critisizing and appreciate how difficult of a task this is.

i am way impressed and inspired that these people can put together a films as good as they have in as little time they give themselves.

if you watch them .. you will see they DO have artist merit .. and are really worth your time

these people probally dont have time to plan 6 months for a short film .. and with these little instafilms .. they might get a bigger break .. and an oppertunity to spend some time getting paid to do this

i like them .. and i think they did a good job

that's pretty cool, which i had the resources to do somehting like that, seem like alot of fun

The blurb is very short on details, but this sounds similar to The 48 Hour Film Project which has spread incredibly rapidly from Washington DC to Atlanta and beyond.

I saw the results of the first contest. They were great! Many teams had original music, one had out-of-state footage fedex'd in from Las Vegas(!), and of course they all had original casting, writing, and editing. Each movie repeats a few key phrases handed out at the beginning of the contest. In addition, each team gets a different, *random* genre to work in!

Anyway check it out, and read Liz Langston's diary for the first competition.

Also, Check out dfilm.com for their Dfilm moviemaker...

see other's movies, e-mail short movies, make your own movies...one of the funnest sites ever...seriously...


here's a sample...

http://mm.dfilm.com/mm2s/mm_route.php?id=9289

Yea, I'd have to say 48 Hour Film Project (mentioned by Shavenworthog) is probably the most respected from within the industry.

A lot of this "guerilla" art stuff is going on all over. I'm personally getting a music show together where I write songs with the audience, just to see if song-by-jury creates anything cool.

A similar group for Bay Area farkers is Group101. If you're in Sac, check out Creative Armada, a group doing weekly art meets at a mid-town coffeehouse.

This was a good thing to see on Fark.

Edited, too?
Day-am.

check this out...WARNING: Heavily Surreal

http://www.dfilm.com/mm/mm_route.php?id=432895

This one is probably my favorite:

http://www.dfilm.com/mm/mm_route.php?id=433389

I was involved in a 48 hour film contest this past october. We were actually working with my friends in Austin. We had remote crews here in Rochester, NY, the primary crew in Austin, then our writing team was also in Minneapolis, and Boston.

We were given a prop (Stuffed Animal), a line (I see something I don't like) a genre (sci-fi) and a character (Les Ottoman, Model). From that, we had 48 hours to write, film, and edit a film. It was one of the most stressful things i've ever dealt with, and simultaneously, the most fun I've had in a very long time. The only thing they give the teams leeway is on music, and scouting of locations, which can be done prior to the 48 hours, but release forms need to be signed and handed in along with the film.

Our story was that there is this alien invasion. There's nothing we can do to stop it, but this air freshener company wants to profit off of it, so they come up with an alien repellant spray that's really just their air freshener product relabelled. Our hero, Les Ottoman, is the spokes-person, and the catchphrase for the product is "I see something I don't like". The product... U.F.Off.

You think it's easy, but it really isn't. It's VERY hard to do all of the creative work within a 48 hour time frame. I was the producer/director/cameraman for the Rochester crew, and I got 4 hours of sleep from friday to sunday. Our film ended up being on the long side (12 minutes), which is a shame since we had at least 20 minutes of material.

It was also fun trying to get all of our footage to Austin for final editing. Thank ye gods for Internet2 connections... whee! I'm working on a long-form version of it now, using all of the footage we had to drop.

Ours also was late. 5 minutes late, and thus, we were disqualified for winning anything in the contest. Oh well. We had a blast doing it. :D

I have the upmost respect for anyone who can do a professional-looking, well written, well performed story of 5-12 minutes in length within a 48 hour timeframe.

We currently don't have a version of our film "Inva$ion" online, but it will be soon. Anyone interested in checking it out, email me; jsl-fark at umlautllama dot com. :)

(We were doing this 48 hour film contest.)

I just created a Dfilm. It's based on a true story:

http://mm.dfilm.com/mm2s/mm_route.php?id=845369

I really want to go to a film school.

That would be cool...

I might be able to if I can get enough monies in the next year and a half