"Deviant" by Electrode Films

On Friday June 8, 2005, the Electrode crew met in downtown Cincinnati to receive their assignment for this year's 48 Hour Film Project. If you're unfamiliar with the 48HFP, it's basically a national contest for independent filmmakers. All the groups are assigned the same character, prop, a line of dialogue, and each group picks a film genre out of a hat. After you've been assigned, the clock starts, and you have exactly 48 hours to script, shoot, and edit a 4-7 minute short film using the required elements.

Here were our assignments:

Character: L. Perkins, Traffic Safety Researcher

Prop: Gift Wrapped Package

Dialogue: "I've never been there"

Our Genre: Mystery

So, the race began at 7pm Friday night. Here's some pics of the process.

Jesse and I finished the script at 12:14AM (late friday night), after the help of some cell phone calls, duct tape, sharpies, a note pad, and the drink of choice, Bacardi and Coke.

We started shooting on Saturday morning at 10:00am, and finished around 5pm. Everything was shot with two cameras, and we had 2 hours of solid footage to edit down into 7 minutes.

Editing began Saturday night about 6pm, and ended at 2:24am Sunday. At this point, we retired to the patio outside to enjoy a celebratory cigar.

Sunday, refining edits and music was added from 9-12, and the project was put onto a DVD at 12:11pm. So in all actuality, the entire project was finished in 24 hours, if you add it all up, which is pretty damn impressive. The finished product and paperwork was delivered to our meeting point at 6pm, one hour before the deadline. We were the 2nd ones finished.

Tuesday, July 12 at 4:45pm, our movie had it's first premiere at the AMC 20 theatre in Newport, KY. Our movie was screened to an audience of over 200 people, on a 30' x 55' movie screen, which was amazing. Check out the pics.

It was probably the most gut-wrenching and surreal moment all of us have ever had in our lives. Hearing the applause for our project was the most satisfying feeling. After, Jesse and Imet up with Tim Wood, our lead character outside for a picture.

It was definitely an experience participating in the whole project!

Here's the finished movie. It's 7 minutes long and in MP4 format.

VIEWER DISCRETION IS ADVISED DUE TO STRONG ADULT LANGUAGE.

"Deviant" by Electrode Films