Woody Cavenaugh

The awards night for the 2006 Greensboro 48 Hour Film Project is comming Sunday at M’Coul’s Pub, 110 W. McGee st. and The Green Burro Sports Bar, 106 W. McGee st. and I though it might be fun to show you some of the submissions curtesy of YouTube. To be eligable, you must have used bubblewrap as a prop, B. Jones television personality as a character and the line "Its like my mother always said", it must be no longer than six minutes with one extra minute for credits. It must have been turned in by 7pm on the Sunday night. And there was a paperwork component with location and people waivers that had to be included with the movie. Those films above were missing one or more of those elements and thus can be posted right away on YouTube as they are ineligable for judging. After the judging, on Sunday night other films may pop up at this link if they can compress it down to 100MB or less and it didn't win. The winning project goes on to the finals and no one will want to risk their eligability in that.

Even though these films were not eligable or did not win don't think for a minute they are poor examples. Quality will vary, but this stuff isn't bad, especially when you remember that they were made in 48 hours from elements to concept, to script, to finished product. In a nutshell, the worst thing here is a triumph given the short time span allowed and the sheer number of things that could possibly go wrong.