Last weekend, myself and Stephen took part in ‘Cutting it Fine’, Bristol’s inaugural 48 hour short film competition.
The challenge? To write, shoot and edit a short film in 48 hours – all while incorporating three random prompts that were randomly selected from a bucket. Ours were:
Prop: Greeting Card
Location: Harbouside
Line of dialogue: This can’t be real
From that, we created a 5-minute short film titled ‘harbourmaster’.
On Tuesday, we attended the competitions screening event – mainly to support the wide variety of talented individuals who made up the other 18 teams. We were keen to see their weird and wonderful creations, and in a best case scenario, leave feeling inspired by this city’s insane filmmaking talent, all while hopefully having met a few likeminded individuals in the process.
Never in million years did we imagine we’d come away from the night with the award for ‘Best Film’.
We found the process equal parts stressful and incredibly fun. Things are hard as a team of two at the best of times, but they’re even tricker when one half of the team takes on an acting role in the short. Despite this, we’re so proud with what we’ve made, and we can’t wait to share it with you.
Part our prize for winning is for the film to receive an online treatment in the form of a grade and a sound mix from PictureShop – we cannot wait for this unbelievable opportunity, and to then share it to the world once it’s done!
Big love to everyone who has reached out to us since last night, your kinds words mean so much – we were truly honoured to share the screen with your films.
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