Coromind - Issue 34 - October25 - Coromandel's Collaborative Magazine - Flipbook - Page 3
Lights,
Camera,
Chaos!
Recently Thames High School students
were given the opportunity to participate
in the 48 Hours Film Challenge, and what
a fun opportunity it was! The challenge
was to create a short 昀椀lm within just one
weekend to the highest quality possible.
The time leading up to the weekend
was spent planning our roles and
responsibilities and excitedly waiting. We
called our group Golden Ratio, a name to
inspire perfect balance in our piece and
to reference our rich gold mining history
here in Thames.
Finally, at 7pm Friday 15th August, the
theme for our short 昀椀lm was announced
on a livestream. Teams were given
di昀昀erent genres, and our assigned genre
was ‘Man vs Nature’. Every team also
had to include four elements: something
precious, a miniature, an accident, and
slow-motion. The adrenaline was intense
– as soon the instructions were given,
our scriptwriting team went straight
to brainstorming! We came up with
so many di昀昀erent ideas that we didn’t
end up using, but by 9pm that night
we had a script we could be proud of.
Unfortunately, we were not able to stay
at school overnight to continue working,
but that didn’t stop us from jumping on
online calls to 昀椀nalise ideas and o昀昀er new
ones. There was just too much passion
and creativity to call an early night!
From 8am to 9pm on Saturday, it was
non-stop working for a lot of our crew.
Something we didn’t expect was how a
few roles got adjusted during the process.
Some roles got dropped and some got
promoted, like how I became a co-director
during the Saturday to even out some
of the heavy workload of the director.
With so much to get done in such a short
amount of time, we needed all hands
on deck. We managed to 昀椀nish 昀椀lming
around 6pm that night. Exhausted, we
sorted through our footage and gave our
昀椀nal takes to the post-production team.
On Sunday we sent o昀昀 our 昀椀nal version of
our short 昀椀lm Thirst and 昀椀nally stopped
to breathe. Our 昀椀lm was shown in
The Village Cinema in Tauranga on
7th September, among other 昀椀lm
submissions. Regional 昀椀nalists get
announced between 13th September
and 3rd October. The winners of
the competition get announced on
25th October.
No matter whether we win anything with
our 昀椀nal product, Golden Ratio gained a
lot of valuable things from the experience.
It was amazing to work with such a cool
group of unique and creative minded
people. Even our year 13s are planning to
come back next year to help out! I know
I am not alone in saying that before the
48 hours had even started, it felt exciting
to just be a part of a project like this. We
were all here for the same purpose –
to create.
A lot of us had never considered making
昀椀lms to be a hobby before, but that
weekend got some of us hooked. Taking
part in the 48 hour 昀椀lm competition
even inspired us to start our own 昀椀lm
club outside of school and enter more
short 昀椀lm competitions. The moment our
weekend was over, we started planning
what our next 昀椀lm could be. We’re excited
to see what we can do with fewer time
restrictions, so we can possibly include
things we wanted to insert into our 昀椀nal
This Project Was Proudly Supported By
昀椀lm but didn’t have enough time for, like
original music and Tayo’s incredible stopmotion animations!
Golden Ratio would like to give a VERY
big thanks to Coromind for sponsoring
our short 昀椀lm and allowing us to enter
this competition. We are so grateful for
this opportunity and it was great getting
to see some of you – even if it was brie昀氀y
during a very hectic and busy day! We
would also like to give a huge thank you
to Dr Carla Grosman, our team leader,
who played such a huge part in all the
organising that had to take place before
the 48 hours began and also provided
us with delicious food, along with the
Thames High School kapa haka group
and Burton’s on Pollen Lunch Bar and
Catering. Thank you for keeping us well
fed and energised to achieve all of this.
We wouldn't have been able to do this
without your support, so once again,
thank you!
Win or lose, Golden Ratio calls this
challenge a success and we cannot wait to
take part again next year.
Words by
Naomi Hinton
Watch the short film
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