The Shabango Productions - 4thCollective Link Explained ...

So, while I've got a minute here ... for anyone that has any questions on what the 4thCollective is, and its relation to Shabango Productions ...

Back in like, 2000-2001, a little independent comedy club called Main Street Improv opened. The troupe dabbled in short film, while focusing largely on live shows as a short form improv comedy troupe.

Fast forward 7 years, and the club had to unfortunately close, but the group largely carried on, continuing in short film projects. Most of us had worked in and around other 48 hour teams for several years prior to entering in a team as 'The 4thCollective' in 2009. Since that time, the 4thCollective has taken on the life of the comedy troupe, with a bunch of different folks taking part in different projects.

Shabango Productions, formed in 2010, became the 'business' part of the 4thCollective, in so much as we were hired for certain advertising, media, and marketing opportunities here and there. So thats it in a nutshell ... 4thCollective is the comedy troupe, while Shabango Productions takes care of the boring business.

So, we hope you'll enjoy this year's 4thCollective entry into the 48 Hour Film Fest.

Wrapped Filming

So, we've wrapped. Now to do master music tracks, edit, and most importantly ... eat dinner.

Today Thus Far ...

Yes ... those are children, and Yes, this is really happening ...

Last Night

Couple of shots from last night's writing and prep.
We wrote an original song, and are working on a second later tonight.

  

Also spent some time cutting out construction paper for our set. Set turned out really great!

Tonight's the Night

The 48 Hour Film Fest Kicks Off tonight. Happy to wish some good luck out to our friends Stavi Productions, as well as Nick Mann. We've also got a new friend along with us for the ride this year, Mr. Jason Clemons. We're happy to welcome him to the team. You may know him from SBJ films. 

Just Signed Up for the 48 Hour Film Festival Again

Shabango Productions is once again entering the 48 Hour film festival as, The 4thCollective. This will be the 3rd year in a row that we take part in the competition. Long story short, the 48HFP is a competition wherein about 60 teams get an assigned character, prop, and line of dialogue. each team randomly picks a genre of film they must make, and all teams are assigned the same character, prop, and line of dialogue at the kickoff event on the Firday night of the competition. Everyone then gets 48 hours to make their film, and turn it in completed by Sunday night.

In 2009, we entered 'Subterfuge', which won Best Writing, Best Soundtrack, Audience Award, and Best Overall film of the 2009 competition:



In 2010, we entered 'El Hobonito', which won Audience Award again, and was written by 12 year olds ... literally ... they wrote it, we just filmed it ...



This year, we're going minimalist, and will again be aiming for a different take on things once again. Last year, we had 12 year olds write it, this year ... who knows.

Good luck to everyone participating.

Updates, Updates ...

We've been working on a few things in the past few months. Namely shorts to compile together for a web series we're planning to debut later this year called 'The Shabango Show'. Some of them are really quite odd, and others we think are quite funny. We'll keep you updated, and hope you agree!

Here's a short little diddy about Adam and Nick shopping for fireworks ...