San Diego Video Production

We produced this film for our entry in the San Diego division 2009 48 Hour Film Project, an international film festival.  We wrote, shot and edited it in 48 hours! (We've since taken more time to polish the editing.)

In order to ensure the contestants did all creative work during the contest, each team picks a genre out of a hat and is given certain elements to place into the movie. We pulled Drama and had to include a crayon, a character Amos or Amy Belanger who is a historian, and a line of dialogue, "That's not what I meant." See if you can spot them in the film!

3 weeks prior to the production, the producer and director each put in 40-60 hours a week to organize our locations, cast, crew, and equipment.  All creative work was done during the 48 hour time frame as per the rules of the film festival. We shot on location in Encinitas and Solana Beach, California.

There were about 40 entries in the San Diego contest alone, which included a lot of great films. We all had a great time pulling together and creating something so quickly.

Cast & Crew

Our cast and crew consisted of 30 fantastic people from San Diego, Los Angeles, and Taiwan.

CAST (links to IMDB)

Eric Jones		Eric Poppick
Tarot Card Reader	Sandra Ellis-Troy
Grand Daughter		Ally Blumenfeld
News Reporter		Mei-Ling Downey
House Keeper		Lynae DePriest
Student			Stefan Cap
Mrs. Amy Belanger	Antoinette Oesterlein
Gardener		Kyle Wright
Gardener #2		Shane Chase

CREW (links to websites)

Director 		Cory Petkovsek
Producer / Writer 	Alia Ella Henderson
Director of Photography Aaron Moorhead
Script Supervisor 	Michael Jones
Set Designer 		Thomas George
Editor 			Cory Petkovsek
Editor 			Hunter Venable
Sound Designer 		Dominic Pesce
Assistant Director 	Tommy Friedman
Assistant Set Designer 	Veronica Lynn Harper
Sound Recordist 	Jesse Watts
Assistant Camera 	Mike Deas
2nd Assistant Camera 	Greg Lefevre
Gaffer 			Charlie Heimsath
Key Grip 		Ricky "Azrael" Daniels
Opening Titles 		Light Ray Visual Effects
Wardrobe / Prop Master 	Sylvia Enrique
Makeup 			Afton A Adams
Production Assistant 	Krishna Jehoshua
Production Assistant 	Michele Arnesen
Production Assistant 	Yoni Baker
Production Assistant 	Katie Franke

Location provided by Craig M Hart.

Tech Specs

• Camera
  • Red (4096x2304 resolution footage; some scenes in 120fps)
• Audio
  • Rode NTG-3 and boom
  • Field Mixer
• Lighting
  • (2) 1k Baby "407" Mole Richardson
  • 2K Baby Junior Mole Richardson
  • 1.2k fresnel HMI and ballast
  • 4ft 4 bank Kino Flo kit
  • (2) 4x4 Mirror Reflector
  • (2) 1k dimmer
  • (3) 4x4 floppy solids
• Grip / Electric
  • 1-ton grip package
  • Honda 2000 13 amp generator
• Editing
  • Final Cut Studio 3 (initial version during the contest)
  • Sony Vegas 9 (polished version)
• Visual Effects
  • Maya was used to create the opening title sequence