Offering a Decent Proposal in 24 Hours

We did at least 10 times better this year than last and, while we didn't win anything, we did have the only film in the competition to draw an "awww!" from the audience.

For whatever that's worth. The most important thing is that we had a great time and saw some major improvement.

All the credit goes to my sister, Jamie and her newly minted fiance A.J., both of whom were good enough sports to do a film about ring shopping before their engagement was official. Their real-life relationship carries this film.

Something funny happened to the sound in the last part of this during the upload, and I haven't quite figured it out yet, but bear with it for now and I'll replace the video ASAP.

You can go to YouTube to watch it in HD.

My 24 Hour Film

Note: I just noticed that something funny is going on with the frame size here - it's getting cut off.. If you want to see the full frame, watch it here.

This is pretty lousy, especially compared to many other films in the competition, but then...

Nevertheless, my cast and crew of more-or-less first-timers made a heroic effort.

You should know that I suffered a severe hardware failure shortly after the festival, so I lost some of the content from the original. I was able to recover it, however I tweaked a few things to include in a demo video to a prospective client. This is the new version, but it's almost exactly the same as the old, just with lower thirds added and the (nasty) keying improved very slightly (barely perceptibly at this size, really). I also had to redo one of the (terrible) effects shots. Other than that, it's identical frame for frame. Can you tell I'm nervous about posting this?




Hi, now that you all know what I look and sound like in "real" life. Nice to meet you. Needless to say, we didn't win anything. I'd love your feedback, though.