Well, here I am again, on the brink of starting yet another 48 Hour Film Project.  This year’s entry will mark the 5th movie I’ve worked on for these competitions.  I can’t believe it… 5?!

Seems like not too long ago when we pulled Musical or Western as our genre and ended up making Vestern: A Western in the San Francisco competitions in 2006.  The following year was an interesting one.  In 2007, we took part in both the San Francisco and (brand new) San Jose projects.  We churned out Jackson Reynolds P.I. (Detective/Cop) and followed it up with Love Spread (Romance).  All three of these films won Audience Favorite awards, and we couldn’t have been more thrilled.  Last year, in 2008, we only participated in the San Jose project, as working on two a year was a little tough, and having the drive to San Francisco was a definite setback.  But we were definitely happy with our final product, Bodbrane and the Wizard of Spas (Fantasy).

We’ve encountered some challenges throughout the years, and in my opinion have made some pretty cool movies.  We do have a lot of areas where we can improve, and so I’m hoping that we are really able to shine this year.  I know the competition has grown immensely as well, and there are a great number of fantastic movies being made out there.  So we definitely need to step it up this time around.

One thing that remains the same every year is that it’s a great learning experience.  Undoubtedly, we’ll come across a new set of challenges and need to work through them.  At least it’s always fun!  Check back here in a couple days for an update with our next 48 Hour Film Project!

So I entered a contest on YouTube sponsored by Lowes and my video made the final voting round!  The prize is a lawn care package.  If you are reading this, would you please be so kind as to vote for my video?  Oh pretty please!  I’ve made some simple instructions on how to vote:

1) First, you need a YouTube account, and you need to be signed in.  Please do that first.  Then, go to this link:

http://www.youtube.com/user/lowes

Once there, you’ll see this page:

2) Click on the “Vote” button.

You’ll then see this page:

3) First, click on the “Category” dropdown and select the “Perfect Lawn & Therapy” category.  Then click “Go”.

You’ll then be brough to my video’s page:

4) Make sure to select my video by clicking on it.  You’ll see that it’s titled, “Lowes Contest Entry – Perfect”.  After click on the thumbnail, it will start playing in the main video window.  You can then click on the green, “Thumbs Up” to vote for my video!

If you’re feeling saucy, feel free to vote the other videos with “Thumbs Down”.  Evelyn felt bad about doing that, so only the evil should apply.

I don’t think that voting more than once per day will do anything extra, so no need to vote over and over again in the same day.  The voting lasts for a while so if you could log in each day and vote for my video, that’d be great!

Thank you so much!!