Here’s the challenge: Movie-production teams meet at the Angelika Film Center on a Friday night. At that time, organizers give them a theme, prop, sentence and setting that they must incorporate into their short film. Then they have 24 hours to write, shoot, edit and package the movie. It all went down this past weekend at the May 14-15 24 Hour Video Race.
Completing a movie within the limited time frame, alone, is a coup. Particularly impressive are those competitors who manage to produce, within the allotted time, a sensical, suspenseful, meaningful and visually appealing piece that smoothly incorporates the required elements. I am proud to say (and I feel I can say this without seeming braggy because I had nothing to do with it) that our Advocate talent did just that.
Photo and video editors Can “Turk” Turkyilmaz and Benjamin Hager took the theme: “A day to remember”, prop: ball, line: “I’ll do it tomorrow”, and setting: garden, and they put together this 3-minute(ish) long video. It took them the entire 24 hours. They worked through the night and made it back to the theater in the nick of time. (Despite all of this, they were surprisingly chipper Monday morning).
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kb88t9mtL48&feature=player_embedded[/youtube]All of the films that were turned in by the midnight Saturday deadline will screen at Angelika and compete for awards and bragging rights. The winning videos will be screened at the 24th VideoFest in September and also on Frame of Mind on KERA.
