Fire Escape Films - Birdman

Birdman is a film that I completed for the 48 Hour Film Festival. The 48 Hour Film Festival was hosted by Fire Escape Films, the student organization for filmmaking at the University of Chicago. The rules of the film festival are that filmmaking teams are given a single sentence prompt, and from that point they have 48 hours to write, shoot, and edit a film to be judged against submissions by other teams. The prompt for this competition was the title of a film that had won a Best Picture Award and our team’s prompt was: Birdman. This is film the project my team made in the 48 hours of the competition. When we received our equipment for the competition (the organization equally distributes the tech in order to prevent a technology advantage) our microphones were broken and our team was forced to improvise and use the recording feature on our team member’s smartphones to record the audio for our film. Our technological limitations also put the team in the position of writing a film with limited dialogue, so we guerilla filmed in a campus library and were satisfied with our creative product.