The Day After The Day After Tomorrow

In the 80’s movie 48 Hours Nick Nolte played a hard nosed cop who had to spend the eponymous time period protecting Eddie Murphy’s wise cracking felon turned witness. As you can imagine (or as you know if you’ve watched the film, which you should have, it’s good. Not the sequel though, no certainly not Another 48 Hours) in those two full days they got up to no end of dangerous scrapes and hilarious japes, resulting in a very entertaining flick and a sizeable return on the studios investment (hence the sequel, God it’s awful.)

All of which beggars the question: What exactly can you do in 48 hours, and the answer is a bit vague – depends really. You can travel to the other side of the world but not to the moon. You can (probably) build a decent size garden shed but not a garage (I assume) and you could write a reasonable dissertation on sequels (believe me, you can) but you may be told it’s “The least academic piece of work I have ever read.” So it’s swings and roundabouts.

Any way, one thing you certainly can do is make a damn fine short film – as recently proven by most of the Casual Films gang for the Smoke and Mirrors 48 Hour Film Competition. The challenge is simple – you turn up with your crew, cast and kit, they give you the theme – this years was ‘Lost’ – and in the next two days you have to; conceptualise, write, film and edit the piece. Exactly 48 hours later you have to deliver a film, finished or not – obviously finished is better, and we managed that.

Our piece ‘LAMIA’ came from the twisted brain of Development Manager James via no less a source than Greek mythology don’t you know! And an incredible and valiant team effort saw it completed with quite literally more than a minute to spare.

It might not have won, but we’re very proud of every aspect of our little film and we’d love to hear what you think of it.

And no, there won’t be a sequel.

Probably.