We produced this video for the 2009 48 Hour Film Project in Portland, OR.

Genre: Mocumentary
Character: Brian Merryweather, Lab Technician
Prop: Picture Frame
Line of Dialog: "For crying out loud."

Director Kilsington Langsworth documents college graduate Brian Merryweather's struggle to land a "dream job" in a tough economy. With an animal behavioral psychology degree in hand, Brian hopes for an offer from BioWhale Labs. In the meantime, Brian takes a position with a paranormal investigation company with surprising results.

Shot with the Canon 5D Mark II and EF 28/1.8, 50/1.4, 85/1.8, and 200/2.8 L II lenses.

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  • Skitzo Studios 4 months ago
    What a great shot film! Fantastic photography and music!
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  • paramon plus 4 months ago
    Great work,
    but you had to do another take on the crane @ 3:57
  • P3Pictures plus 4 months ago
    Agreed! We had planned to take out the bounce in post, but ran out of time.

    Also, we really should have had them speaking dialog as the jib came down.

    Such is the 48 Hour Film Project. There are so many things that we would have improved with more time...
  • paramon plus 4 months ago
    there is always a next one :)
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  • P3Pictures plus 4 months ago
    Dream Job is the Audience Award Winner for Portland 2009 Group C. Yay!

    48hourfilm.com/portland_oregon/

    Hopefully, we will be selected to appear in the Best of Portland show on August 31, where we will learn which film will represent our city.
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  • P3Pictures plus 4 months ago
    Yay! We were got a spot in the Best of Portland show, which includes 13 films overall. Six of the films were from our group.
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  • Rudy Labordus plus 4 months ago
    I enjoyed that. good luck! :)
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  • Andy Batt plus 4 months ago
    Hi Jon - nice work, great to see it up on the 'big screen'

    -andy
  • P3Pictures plus 4 months ago
    Hi Andy,

    Our whole team enjoyed "Overdrawn." It had the best concept punch line of the night.

    We didn't really care for the winning film (or the acceptance speech.) And I can't fathom how "Game Night" didn't win best score. Oh well. They got Best Theme Song right. :)

    Best of luck next year!
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  • Andy Batt plus 4 months ago
    thanks Jon - we have a great writing team-it's always amazing how they can pack so much funny into a short film.

    We were a bit mystified with the "Best Of" ourselves - the best explanation I can come up with is that the judges wanted that lo-fi, after effects driven, homemade style.

    I'd love if the 48HFP would review and improve their judging: add 2 more judges (5 total), make the procedure more transparent, add more criteria and do more to ensure the local producers don't 'flavor' the results.

    Trying to make sure I'm not coming off as a sore loser here... it's more of a confusion thing...

    Cheers!

    andy
  • P3Pictures plus 4 months ago
    Don't worry Andy. This definitely doesn't come off as a "sore loser" thing. I figured that our film would make the city finals, but was very unlikely to win the city. The Audience Award was unexpected - we had too few people to stuff the ballot box. ;)

    But, yeah, more transparency in the judging and more judges - especially if they are real film experts - would be good for the 48. Personally, I'd like them to pick the film that would be most likely to advance to Cannes. I don't think they did that this year.

    The previous two times we participated, we were proud to lose to your team. "Tooth and Nail" and the "Love and Sappiness" were both priceless!
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