The required elements were:
Character: Sherman or Sharon Brown – recently unemployed
Prop: A book
Line: “There is a $2.00 service charge.”
Our genre: Silent film
A mysterious man leaves three strangers a box that draws them into a world filled with sinister beings.
Cast – as
Scott A. Harris – The Stranger
Austin Webb – Poker Player
Saurabh Bhatnagar – Sherman Brown
Kayleigh Graham – Nature Girl
Ron Reneiso – Clown
Garvin O’Connor – Boar Man
Scott Harris – Troll
Katie Wischkaemper – Woman 1
Garvin O’Connor – Man 1
Diana Urbanski – Woman 2
Crew
Jennie Donovan
Raju Eason
Adam Frye
Stephanie Frye
Henry Gallagher
Cathe Harris
Randy LeBlanc
Diana Urbanski
John J. Urbanski Jr.
Jeff Wischkaemper
Special Thanks To
Lowery Bank
Mary-Alice and Lawrence DeSpain
This film was made as part of the 2010 Houston 48 Hour Film Project where teams made a 4 – 7 minute short film using a few required elements and a genre pulled from a hat. All aspects of production including writing, filming, rehearsing and editing took place over the weekend of June 4th – 6th.
Troll and Boar show us how it’s done on the set of Night Drop – our 2010 48 Hour Film Project short. There really isn’t anything else to say about that.
Premiere Screenings
June 8-10, 2010
Studio Movie Grill CityCentre, 805 Town and Country Lane 77024
$10 per screening (up to 14 shorts per screening) Notes: SMG offers a full bar and food selection which you can order without even leaving your theater seat. Seating and food/drink services begin 30 minutes prior to show.
Here are a few short clips of us testing out John’s new homemade stabilizer rig for his 5D Mark II in preparation for the upcoming Houston 48HFP.
Hank and Diana helped us out by getting in front of the camera for some night tests.
Hank, Scott, and Saurabh appear on camera at Ragin Cajun in Sugar Land, TX where the boss was kind enough to let us play in his restaurant as long as we spelled the name right. Thanks!
The Voodoo Studios gang got together and shot a test for their original script – Seven-Dollar Salvation – a short about a girl who gets the idea to raise money by selling certificates of salvation that promise the owner a spot in the afterlife for seven bucks a pop.
This scene takes place late in the script so it might feel a little out of context. It was shot using 2 Canon 5D Mark IIs on standard def and two Rode Videomics to mimic a potential equipment set-up that we might use in the upcoming Houston 48 Hour Film Project.
48 teams have already registered for the upcoming Houston 48 Hour Film Project. Pretty crazy that all the spots are taken considering we’re still more than a month away from kickoff! There are a lot of familiar names in the list over at the 48HFP site. Check out here.
Part II of the “Official Catfish Webb Holiday Memories Documentary Web Series”.
This time Austin drops by to talk to us about the biggest holiday of all in America… The Super Bowl! Okay, maybe it’s not a holiday but it might as well be.
Austin visited the Voodoo Studios home office for Thanksgiving 2009. In this video, he gives us a glimpse into the past and we get to see the aftermath that comes when a grown man has had too much turkey and dressing.
I’m calling this Part I of the “Official Catfish Webb Holiday Memories Documentary Web Series”. Enjoy.
This film was made as part of the 2009 Houston 48 Hour Film Project where teams made a 4 – 7 minute short film (before credits) using a few required elements and a genre pulled from a hat. All aspects of production including writing, filming, rehearsing and editing took place over the weekend of June 5th – June 7th.
The required elements were:
Character: Jarod or Janice Puller (Officer)
Prop: A ball
Line: “I’m just not sure about that”
Our genre: foreign film.
Amy’s husband Jai has been missing for two months and every time she closes her eyes she has nightmares about him dying. Unable to get help from the Indian authorities or the American embassy, she follows a vision to visit a guru with a secret who promises her dreams of much happier times.
We wrapped up our latest 48 Hour Film Project entry yesterday and got a film turned in on time.
The required elements were:
Character: Jarod or Janice Puller (Officer)
Prop: A ball
Line: “I’m just not sure about that”
Our genre was western/musical foreign film.
Our 2009 48HFP cast and crew:
Saurabh Bhatnagar – Jai Gurnani
Brandy Copley – Producer, Make-Up
Jennie Donovan – Make-up, Goon
Raju Eason – Soori Baba Jenny Frame – Amy Gurnani Adam Frye – Team Leader / Producer, Writer, Director, Editor Henry Gallagher – Producer
Julie Leithner – Talent Scout Randy LeBlanc – Officer Jarod Puller, Goon, Music Supervisor
Garvin O’Connor – Goon
Ron Reinoso – Best Boy Grip
Diana Urbanski – Location Scout John J. Urbanski Jr. – Director of Photography, Production Designer, Make-up Austin Webb – Location Scout, Goon
Ashram – Amy’s husband Jai has been missing for two months and every time she closes her eyes she has nightmares about him dying. Unable to get help from the Indian authorities or the American embassy, she follows a vision to visit a guru with a secret who promises her dreams of much happier times.
I’ll be posting an online video as soon as the screenings happen. Tickets to the screenings can be purchased here. Note that we are in Screening Group C.
Today we signed up to compete in the annual Houston 48 Hour Film Project where we will once again be tasked with completing a 4 to 7 minute short film over the course of one weekend using a genre drawn from a hat along with a required character, prop, and line of dialogue.
