Lost Weekend Observations

So, my job on our recent excursion into the 48 hour film festival world was to run the contest portion of the Lost Weekend. Many others put in huge amounts of time to arrange the party, track down sponsors, get the publicity out, create & update the website, and solve the myriad of other problems that cropped up. So, basically I got the fun part.

When we sat down to work out the parameters we looked at the way several other 48 events were run and quickly decided on a few things:

1. Keep the rules simple enough to be met by everyone but random enough to ensure a variety of films get turned in. Nobody wanted to see 10 spoof films or 10 slashers or 10 interior monologues (although SteveB was crushed when I rejected Lesbian/Porn as one of the main requirements).
2. Balance. The film parameters would be one thing we chose, one thing the filmmakers chose, and one random factor. In our case we decided on 3 basics; use of an OBJECT (candle), INSPIRATION chosen by the filmmaker from the LA Weekly, and a randomly chosen GENRE.

We also wanted to keep it relatively simple from an organizational perspective...we made the filmmakers responsible for their cast, crew, and equipment. We would focus on a fair judging process and a kick ass premiere party.

Next: Wine, ROMCOM??, and 2 Minutes to spare...