Oldies but Goodies

I decided to dig up a couple of old 48hr film project films I'd edited years ago. Brought back memories of when I had more free time and could do this kind of thing for fun. These were a lot of work, but I met a lot of good people, who I remain good friends with today.
If you are not familiar with these kind of 48 hour film contests, they are a challenge in which you are given 48 hours to write, film and edit a movie. To keep everyone in check, you are required to include several key common elements that each team has to include in the finished film: A character, a line of dialog and a prop. Each team is also assigned a genre. Catch is that you aren't given those key elements until the start of the 48 hours. You are allowed to do some pre-production, such as finding cast and crew, securing locations, and rounding up equipment. But all the creative aspects of the film have to take place in those 48 hours.
I got stuck with editing part or all of these films. Since the editing is the final stop in the process, all eyes are on you to finish on time and the stress piles up. Both of these films were very close calls and just finished with seconds to spare.

Here is "What a Man's Gotta Do" which was our team's entry in the 2004 National Film Challenge.





Here is "The Fantastic Escape" which was done with a lot of the same crew and a large cast. This was the team's entry in the 2005 48 Hour Film Project.