ok, so im back from the 48 hour film comp!.

For those of you who dont know what this is, basically its an annual national competion open to pretty much anyone. You make a team, get given a genre and then have exactly 48 hours to make a film with it. This was my first year doing it and I was the Art Dept. for my team. They were all compete randoms who i had never met before and i would be spending an intire weekend with them....(but what was wierd is that out of complete randomness i happened to know TWO of my teammates...yes NZ is a very small country lol!)....

All 10 of us met up at this girl's flat. I knew instantly that we were all going to get along really well, and i was right.

At 7pm our team mate came back with our genre. (how it works is all team leaders-about180 this year-met to pick the genre for the film out of a hat and the rest of the team is not allowed to know what it is until everyone is released) We got crime. there were a few other things we had to include as well.

basically as soon as she arrived back all hell broke loose. Brainstorming began, then it was my task to design costumes and decide on props. I had to work furiously. The writer was upstairs making the script, sending post it notes down the stairs for what we would need. When she was done we had a read through.

The co-director had organised some mint locations for shooting, so once we had done the read through it was time to start shooting the night scenes. She had organised with the aviation dept. at the airport to shoot in this AWESOME tunnel that looked exactly like the tunnel with the Dementors in the beginning of Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix. We were there from 12am-3am. It was bloody FREEZING! I was on hair and makeup so i had to keep touching up the actors
We got home at 4am and were allowed 1 hour sleep before we had to go to the next location.

It was here that I learnt i was to be in the film, lol! i had about half an hour to learn my lines while another scene was being shot. Kinda hard when youv only had one hour sleep!

Then it was home for breakfast. The directors cooked the whole crew French toast!

After that we had to get organised for the next shoot, which i was in again so i had to learn more lines. Then we had one more location to go to and we were done shooting.

We wrapped at about 3pm which was amazing, and then the directors had to edit all night. I hope they got it in on time tonight because it has to be in by exactly 7pm or you are disqualified.. We havnt seen the final product and we wont until Tues night when the heats start at the Paramount Theatre. Im REALLY stressed about seeing my mug on the big screen hahaha my acting was seriously atrocious

Anyway it was one of the most fun and amazing things I have ever done. My team was awesome and the (actual) actors were SUCH crack ups. The team was really onto it and organised and proffesional. Probs because they had been doing it for the past 4 years. They knew all the ins and outs of how to make a film and even had one of those cool clapper things for the start of each shoot It was such an interesting experience and i cant wait till next year!!