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So I went to check out the final films of the San Antonio 48 hour film project at the Alamo Drafthouse. The Alamo Drafthouse is a cool place to watch movies because it has a bar and you can order food and drinks during the movie. They also show old school movies such as the first Ghost Busters movie which they are currently showing now.

There were 2 groups, A and B. Travis Thomsen (co-worker) of Dark Design Productions was part of Group A which consisted of 13 films. Travis ended up choosing Horror for the genre giving him a huge amount of relief that it wasn’t Romance or Western. Travis’s film was about 2 tech guys working the weekend shift at a computer company. The movie was filmed at the ServerBeach office in San Antonio, Texas. If you are in the technology industry, you probably generally know what it is like to be a tech guy on the night shift or weekend shift where you are the only one in the office. It can be so dead quiet that you might start going a bit crazy. So crazy that you start seeing vampires. This is what Travis’ movie is about: tech guys seeing vampires. There is more to it but you have to see it, you will be cracking up! Well done, Travis! The San Antonio Express News (primary SA paper) followed Travis during the 48 hours of filming and he will be in a write up in the upcoming paper. All the films were entertaining. You have to check out Captain Awesome…if you can handle seeing grown men in tight leggings.

I was impressed with the 48 hour film project. VISA is a sponsor of the project and before the screening, they had a few commercials from some of the sponsors. VISA’s ad was great and pertained to the whole film making scene. I think the hosting industry should pay more attention to the under ground film making scene. A lot of these film directors need a place to upload their movies. YouTube’s time limit on videos is 10 minutes so they need another solution such as a server with lots of bandwidth. Film making is a niche market, a growing market and it is a great opportunity for hosting providers to tap into.