Macleans College students race to complete films in 48 hours
Posted on September 22, 2023
The 48 Hours filmmaking competition is an institution for kiwi filmmakers. The annual event has run for 20 years where teams are tasked with making a movie in just two days, with very specific components.
The national competition took a gap year in 2023, which allowed the filmmaking club and media studies students to have their own Macleans College competition.
On Friday at 7 pm, the elements that must be included were announced to the nine filmmaking teams. Each film had to include a scarf, a wilhelm scream, a match cut and a character who is an overachiever. Then each team pulled out from a hat a random genre including crime, revenge and rom-com.
Over the weekend, teams realised their concepts filming in various locations across the Eastern suburbs. On Sunday, the post-production went down to the wire for a number of teams; but ultimately all nine teams successfully submitted a film before the 7 pm deadline. These were screened to the filmmaking club on Tuesday lunchtime, and can be viewed on the Media at Macleans YouTube channel.
One film, “Look Behind You’ by Isaac Han (Hillary House), Daniel Kang (Upham), Ella Qiang (Snell) and Ellen Wu (Batten), was selected to join the Macademy Awards line-up. Tickets are still on sale, but are selling fast.
