48 hour video race

48 hour video races is something im familiar with but in a narrative sense. when i was going to school in richmond, there was a 48 hour race that was offered to VCU students, and me and 5 or 6 other people did it.. all i can say about that weekend was it was more hectic than i could ever imagine.. what we thought would be a lot of fun and a chance for us to make something great screened at a large audience.. ended up being a crazy weekend of no sleep and time crunching... we ended up losing 2 members due to frustration and arguments! NOT WHAT WE EXPECTED.. at the end of the weekend we turned in a sort of blue print for what we wanted to come up with.. the terms for our race was we were given a line of dialogue we had to use and a genre of what we could make the night of the first 48 hours... we ended up getting a holiday genre and i dont even remember what the line of dialogue was but we weaseled it in their.. we ended up getting honorable mention out of like 20 some films which was good enough for me even though it ma have been one the most hectic weekends of my entire life..

for THIS race things are EVEN more complicated... im thinking other people are looking at this like fun. im INTIMIDATED as hell... let alone getting a surprise prop.. but not being able to use a camera is freaking me out.. im toying with the thought of doing something with my webcam.. what we did last time was brainstormed all night of good narrative ideas for a film..and then when we got our prop and line of dialogue we just kinda molded them in there.. im not sure if that was a good or bad idea but i guess ill still attempt that to a certain degree..i want to form some kind of piece using webcam or maybe just a lot of screen capturing with multiple different facebook video posts.. because my friends have caught on to this trend where it's funny to post meaningless small video's on each other's facebook walls.. this has been going on for a while.. im interested to know how i could save all of the videos i can find that we've done to each other and messed with the audio and chopped it all up and rearranged it to fit the designated prop and line of dialogue... actually i think that would be REALLY sick.. and i think i just decided what im gong to do all together while writing this blog.. im not exactly sure if it will work though because i feel like i have tried to save a video wall post before and didn't work or i couldn't extract it from an actual page.. but maybe there's some kind of loophole around it.. like if i recorded all the conversation pieces on a seperate track from like a tape recorder or something and then had all the audio and then proceeded to take stills of all the actual videos? but im not sure how i would edit all of that.. especially if some how i could extract actual facebook pages along with the video, i doubt that it's possible.. but now im going to research that and try and plan.. my video will kill it. (=