Actor Sydney Ackman goes through final-looks while on set at the Comcast Digital Media Center in Centennial, Colorado (August 2013)
Denver's 48 Hour Film Project competition for 2013 has begun. Our group is one of 43 other Denver-based teams that are competing to write, shoot, and edit a short film in 48 hours. All teams met during the evening of Friday August 2nd to draw genres out of a hat and to get their required elements.
Actor Audrey Walters studies her lines during the shoot of the comedic short "Dysfunctional Dynamics." (August 2013)
We drew “Crime” as our genre. Our required elements included a prop (apples), a character (Virgil Gerbins – uncle), and a line-of-dialogue (‘Why don’t you do it?’). Producer Scott Takeda had an art show during the same evening, so we used that location and started shooting immediately after the competition started.
"Thank goodness our screenwriter Robert Palmer works fast," said producer Lori Kay Allred. "In about 5 minutes, he improvised six quick lines for our actors so we could be shooting during a very busy First Friday art walk evening."
We did the rest of our shooting the following Saturday in the comfortable sound stages of the Comcast Digital Media Center. Brock Sherman was our director.
Editor Ryan Welborn begins a rough cut assembly while we still doing principal shooting at the Comcast Digital Media Center in Centennial, Colorado (August 2013)
We are titling our film “The Dysfunctional Dynamics" and have submitted a hurried rough-cut into 48 Hour Film Project for the competition.
"We're all tired, but we know we've got a better film in the can," said Allred. "So we are now working on a few more days of post production for a director’s cut. With any luck, we'll have that ready for festivals this fall. We're specifically hoping to get into the Film Festival of Colorado, and possibly Aspen Shorts."