wow that sounds really cool but damn near impossible! did they shoot from 12am to 12am?
and do u know what the plot was?

They shot for 15 hours.

The plot was something to do with a time traveler from the future who comes back but can only stay in the current time for eleven minutes at a time. He's popping into a wedding that has been forced inside due to weather, at the wedding the videogorapher on his first job as a wedding video guy explains the multiple cameras that appear in the background and stuff.

Shooting my own movie I couldn't get everything on three takes. No way. Even when the actors were perfect there was always something else. Sure some were hammered out in one perfect take but usually it was four or more before everything came together. Of course I was using college students as a crew and not professionals but still.

One nice thing is that with all the cameras running at once you have continuity of character action and dialogue in the different shots even if they improv. That has to help.

RJSchwarz
San Diego, CA

Sounds like fun. I've often thought of trying to do a feature in a week. Get everything totally prepped beforehand and then just shoot from scene to scene. All actors and crew take a week off work if needed and just run with it. I really jam on the 48 hour project, too.

What was the total running time for this film, surely the film must contain erros, continuity, not perfect acting, light/sound equipment in the shot just to name a few.

And besides the director surely cant be completely happy with it, what film ever has any shots that dont need reshooting.

Can i ask WHY they did this, was it because they HAD to or just to try and prove that it could be done. I think it isnt a good idea as all the writing and planning and they shoot it in one day and probaly dont get the best result they could of done. If i was the script writer who had spent months writing it and then the director sacrificed the quality of the film so he could shoot it in one day(for whatever reason) i'd be pretty pissed of.

Anyway it is still pretty amazing that they did it. That must of have to been so well organized and one long tiring day!!

Regards
Rob Ineson

I haven't seen the movie. I think it's around 90 minutes. Apparantly it's getting a lot of kudos but that might be simply because of the amazing circumstances it was made under (according to the podcast they said that wasn't the case). I'm not sure why they did it except that it was sort of the ultimate challenge. There probably was a reason I just don't know.

Here's a link to the podcast in question:
http://filmmakerone.com/blog/2008/01/17/episode-2-a-movie-shot-in-one-day/

RJSchwarz
San Diego, CA

Yes it is pretty impressive. I will have to listen to this podcast.

Regards
Rob Ineson

Thats awesome, I love film makers who aspire to do things there own way! Get it done and ask questions later type of attitude, love it. I am sure they had some doubt about the shots but for them to be able to complete something like that in that amount of time is amazing to me! I have worked on productions before and some of them take 6-8 weeks to iron out 100 pages of dialogue, its crazy! Has anyone seen it?

I wish I could see that.

Does anyone know what the budget of the film was?

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thats pretty awesome. haha when you made a comment about your actors it brought a smile to my face. ever had an actor that just COULD NOT get the line done right? i once spent 15 minutes trying to get a 5 second shot of someone rolling thier shoulders! he just couldnt do it! ?:p?

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