They were hard to miss as they hurried around Boulder on Friday evening and Saturday, sporting various costumes, carrying props and camera equipment.
The 19 film crews seemingly popped up out of nowhere Friday, then disappeared just as quickly a day later. The frenetic filmmakers were this year's entrants in the Shoot Out 24-Hour Filmmaking Festival, an event in its ninth year in Boulder.
The challenge is cinematic creativity, on deadline. Participants are challenged to create a seven-minute film using only linear editing and incorporating at least five elements from a list of 11 distributed to teams at the beginning of the event -- all in the time it takes the Earth to rotate once.
Judges on Saturday night selected the top 10 films, which will be screened at noon Sunday at a public event at eTown Hall.
"As a filmmaker, I thought it was something that would be fun to do, and it just took off,...
The 19 film crews seemingly popped up out of nowhere Friday, then disappeared just as quickly a day later. The frenetic filmmakers were this year's entrants in the Shoot Out 24-Hour Filmmaking Festival, an event in its ninth year in Boulder.
The challenge is cinematic creativity, on deadline. Participants are challenged to create a seven-minute film using only linear editing and incorporating at least five elements from a list of 11 distributed to teams at the beginning of the event -- all in the time it takes the Earth to rotate once.
Judges on Saturday night selected the top 10 films, which will be screened at noon Sunday at a public event at eTown Hall.
"As a filmmaker, I thought it was something that would be fun to do, and it just took off,...
- 10/21/2012
- by The Boulder Daily Camera
- Huffington Post
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