The first movie we made was for the Maple Valley Film Festival’s 48-hour film competition.  We were given a theme (Triumph by way of persistence in the face of overwhelming opposition), a line of dialog ("Cover the window, please. These {any plural noun here} give me no ideas."), and a prop (a box or container of any size that has an unexpected or extreme warning on the outside) to use in our movie.  This information was given to us at 6 p.m. on a Friday, and we had until 6 p.m. on Sunday to write, shoot, edit, score, produce, and turn in our film.  When we finished shooting, we had over 5 minutes of footage we wanted to use, so there was a lot of good stuff we had to cut.  Our editors worked hard to cut it down, and the final product was just one frame short of 3 minutes (2 minutes, 59 seconds, and 23 frames).  We took first place with this movie.