Spring Break
48-hour film contest focuses on horror
Addley Fannin
Issue date: 10/17/08 Section: ARTS & LIFE
"You're on a break-neck pace," radio, television and film junior Brent Coble said. "The level of stress and worry and nervousness - you're always worried about what the other teams are doing with the elements, so you're trying to be creative. It's really stressful, but it's also a blast."
Coble and his team will participate in the Texas Filmmakers' second "48 Hours of Hell" event, which is being held in association with Art Six coffee house.
The contest is a 48-hour video race. Teams of three to eight individuals will meet tonight around midnight. Each team will recieve a list of four elements. The teams are given the task of making a video that incorporates all four elements,said Joshua Butler, the Texas Filmmakers member in charge of organizing the event.
Because the event begins tonight at midnight, the films must be completed and submitted to the judges by Sunday at midnight.
"It can get pretty crazy," Coble said. "You have 48 hours to make a movie, and it's pretty stressful, but the more that you do, the better it gets."
Keeping with the event's name and supporting a general Halloween theme, the four elements must be used in each film will have a horror theme.
"Those elements are a theme, a location, a prop and a line of dialogue," Butler said. "For example, last time, the line was something about the hounds of hell. Figuring out how to incorporate something that's kind of campy and kind of cheesy is just a fun part of horror movies."
Besides the fact that everything will have a Halloween or horror movie twist to it, the participants know nothing about the elements or what kind of story they could be incorporated into.
"It's good to have an idea, but you shouldn't fall in love with that idea," Coble said. "We know it's going to have a horror element, and we've been brainstorming about zombie movies or serial killers, but everything changes when you get the elements. You can have everything ready, but then you have to change everything."
Coble and his team will participate in the Texas Filmmakers' second "48 Hours of Hell" event, which is being held in association with Art Six coffee house.
The contest is a 48-hour video race. Teams of three to eight individuals will meet tonight around midnight. Each team will recieve a list of four elements. The teams are given the task of making a video that incorporates all four elements,said Joshua Butler, the Texas Filmmakers member in charge of organizing the event.
Because the event begins tonight at midnight, the films must be completed and submitted to the judges by Sunday at midnight.
"It can get pretty crazy," Coble said. "You have 48 hours to make a movie, and it's pretty stressful, but the more that you do, the better it gets."
Keeping with the event's name and supporting a general Halloween theme, the four elements must be used in each film will have a horror theme.
"Those elements are a theme, a location, a prop and a line of dialogue," Butler said. "For example, last time, the line was something about the hounds of hell. Figuring out how to incorporate something that's kind of campy and kind of cheesy is just a fun part of horror movies."
Besides the fact that everything will have a Halloween or horror movie twist to it, the participants know nothing about the elements or what kind of story they could be incorporated into.
"It's good to have an idea, but you shouldn't fall in love with that idea," Coble said. "We know it's going to have a horror element, and we've been brainstorming about zombie movies or serial killers, but everything changes when you get the elements. You can have everything ready, but then you have to change everything."
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