“On May 1st 2013, a team of young, homegrown industry professionals are meeting to begin the scripting of a brand new South African feature film. Eleven days later, this film will premier at the Bioscope in Maboneng and the Official World Record will belong in Joziwood.”

Two weeks ago, I had the pleasure of going to an awesome event, the “Fastest Film Poster Ever competition” at Wolves which was in collaboration with Jo’burg’s take on trying to set the Guinness World Record for the Fastest Film Ever Made. The competition started at 19h20, eight of Jo’burg’s top designers all gathered for the briefing. With nothing but a mumbled blurb from writers, a couple of key images from the film and the film’s name,they set out to design the most exciting, creative poster for the movie – “Shotgun Garfunkel” . In one hour. No pressure.Everyone came prepared with their sketchbooks, pens, Wacom Tablet’s, scanners and even printers in preparation for their version of the poster.

The winner was later determined by the amount of Facebook votes it received and the winner was revealed at 21:30. Because all the results turned out so phenomenal, all of them are going to be used as official movie posters. To find out more about the movie, you can visit the Facebook page or their website, or simply watch the movie. Here are all the posters that were executed on the night in a very stressful one hour.

Estian Fourie (the Winner)

Shaun Botes (Second)

Shaun Hill

Chris Valentine

Sheldon Stewart

Nicholas Christowitz

Eras Gous

Koos Groenwald