Boards.ie Short Film Competition

BlitzKrieg

Boards.ie short film competition kicks off this weekend.

details can be found here:http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2054951953



Post in this thread if you wish to take part in the competition.


How to Enter:

Leave a post below stating your entry into the competition. On Friday evening you will recieve a PM from me with a single word title contained in the message.

Your goal is to produce a short 0-3 minute film incoperating in some form this single word title, it may be how the word makes you feel, or a narrative based around its use.

The only restrictions on your piece would be that its not blatant pornography,and if strong violence or nudity are involved there is a warning with the link.


By the time 8pm on Monday evening all entries should have a link directed to them on this thread, or in a PM to me.

Where A poll will be made so the users of boards can vote on the winning video.


The Prize will be something me and monkeyfudge will try and put together (read: we dont know yet).

trendkill

I'll try to take part, but not guaranteeing i'll have it finished for the deadline, but thats what its all about isn't it...

BlitzKrieg

ahh bugger...

coolcon

Hmm, I dont know about this... but send me a PM anyway and I might be convinced to pick up the camera .

monkeyfudge

Yep... send a PM my way too.

Monster nudie film here I come!

Da Bounca

Posted on the other thread before reading this one. I'd like to take part if it's not too late.

BlitzKrieg

monkeyfudge wrote:

Yep... send a PM my way too.

Monster nudie film here I come!

i cant wait to see what your gonna do now.

coolcon

Good luck everyone! I made a film but YouTube is giving me HUGE hassle :mad: . I will post more info and a link (hopefully) tomorrow!

monkeyfudge

coolcon wrote:

Good luck everyone! I made a film but YouTube is giving me HUGE hassle :mad: . I will post more info and a link (hopefully) tomorrow!

I can host it on my webspace if you have problems.

I have mine planned, but I haven't had a chance to shoot it yet... hopefully I'll have the time tomorrow.

BlitzKrieg

I have mine planned, but I haven't had a chance to shoot it yet... hopefully I'll have the time tomorrow.

i was worried that you were spending too much time on boards.ie today for someone who is meant to be shooting a film


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coolcon

I have mine ready, well as ready as I can get it this weekend.
Firstly, I want to make some excuses ! I uploaded my video onto YouTube yesterday to find that YouTube f**king ruins a video (makes it darker, worse qaulity). So when it made the video real dark you couldnt see a thing (set in night time anyway). I went back and tried to salvage it by making it brighter. So now half of it is quite pale and white- looking and the rest of the time you cant make out whats going on. I only very loosely stuck to my topic as well .
Bare in mind whem you watch this that Im 15 and I have little equipment. The video is poor but I LOVED making it and I learned my lesson about shooting in the dark. OK- enough excuses, the good thing was we all had the same amount of time and we all had only a one-word title to use so all is fair I suppose!

Now Ill let you watch it !
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2JpUEGIjVhg

Looking forward to the next comp, when hopefully things will go better!
So is anyone else going to post a link?

BlitzKrieg

oops

forgot i was doing this today.


Coolcon...


At first i was very disapointed with your film, cause i hate how overused that requiem for a dream song is when it comes to short videos online...But i looked past my own hatred.

And must admit I found that to be a very enjoyable film.

also i am glad you didnt mention the title in the film, cause i want to see how many people can guess it from your footage?

coolcon

BlitzKrieg wrote:

oops

At first i was very disapointed with your film, cause i hate how overused that requiem for a dream song is when it comes to short videos online

I know, i didnt want to use it myself. I hadnt got time to go find something else though :rolleyes: .

BlitzKrieg

coolcon wins by default?

hehe...

coolcon

BlitzKrieg wrote:

coolcon wins by default?

hehe...

Mwah ha ha ha!

But get those vids up - I wanna see!!!!!!

monkeyfudge

coolcon wrote:

Mwah ha ha ha!

But get those vids up - I wanna see!!!!!!

If only there was a way to upload my film directly from my brain onto uTube... bleh...

I liked the film a alot, coolcon. Well done!

trendkill

Good one man, fifteen... anyway, wasn't able to check the title till saturday evening, started working on it in the night, but had some jobs also to do, so wasn't able to finish(or start), i did the intro scene.. but didn't get any further.. on sunday... so i feel bad, so i'll post it, see if any feedback. Its digital,

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6l8rd1xFOLs

The quality utube compress it too isn't the best... google do a good job

coolcon

That little bit looks cool Trendkill!

Da Bounca

Enjoyed your film coolcon.

trendkill

It was easy to do, used final cut, imported a space texture and a comet from Livetype, the earth,sattelite and rock are static images, added a lens flare and then keyframed the objects and rotated the image... bit lengthy keyframing though..

weeder

did i miss this if not i want to take part

monkeyfudge

trendkill wrote:

It was easy to do, used final cut, imported a space texture and a comet from Livetype, the earth,sattelite and rock are static images, added a lens flare and then keyframed the objects and rotated the image... bit lengthy keyframing though..

It looks great. The rock might have been taking things too far though, it would look better without it.

trendkill

Yeah, the light is wrong on the rock, instead of spinning it, i should have kept the light side towards the lens flare, and maybe as it drifted away, reduce it in size.... should have used Shake for the boulder

monkeyfudge

I really need to spend more time messing around with those programmes.

I installed Motion on the G5 in the office here last week, but haven't had a chance to play with it yet.

trendkill

That bring me to a Motion Related Comment, is Apples Motion a separate program then final Cut, because I have installed it and doesn't work, only thing i see is on the viewer in Final Cut that says motion at the top of the viewers is the tab that reads motion.... just always weirded me out,

monkeyfudge

Well mine came as part of the Final Cut Studio pack

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Final_Cut_Studio

(That's a lovely box by the way, I found it very hard to bring myself to open it.)

Motion is very picky about what graphics cards it will run on. It wouldn't run on any of our G4s, so I only got install it recently on a G5 I picked up cheap here on boards.ie.

BlitzKrieg

well...that was interesting, pity i never got to see monkeyfudges approach to my horrible inappropiate title.


BUT!

next time around i should be able to be a contestant, I shall hopefully in 2 weeks have my own sony PD150.

problem is I dont have a house at the moment.

Kingp35

Liked your short coolcon, especially considering your only 15. Keep at it and you will only get better.

trendkill

Cool, the Pd150 is a great cam... it has xlr connections if i can remember properly, always has to have it for good sound, we have a panasonic ag-dvc62e and boy, is that a great camera, shoulder cam as well. Thtas always the problem.. trying to chooses which takes preferenece over another... " i really need this... but .... i want this...."

BlitzKrieg

i saw someone sell a vx9000 for 400 pounds...which had me kicking myself for not bidding on it.

trendkill

Yeah the ysell for all different prices on Ebay, some go for a few hundred, then some go for a couple thousand,400 for a shoulder dvcam... not a bad deal.. its strange, was looking at cameras for a while before buying one, looking for the ultimate deal.... however missed it...

Check this out... what a fabulous price:

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Sony-DSR-250P-Professional-DVCAM-Camcorder-PAL_W0QQitemZ250008565866QQihZ015QQcategoryZ3319QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

Nice price....

coolcon

well this comp was a major flop . Pity though because it was a great idea.

trendkill

Well we can try again..maybe today or tomorrow... maybe give it a few extra days, sometimes the weekendds can be very hectic. WOuld u be up for that coolcon. Even a week deadline...or something. from today until next friday...

coolcon

We'd have to make sure that there were a few people definatley willing to try this time round. If some more people would take part Id be happy to go again. Are you thinking retrying / continueing our current topics or starting fresh with new ones?

trendkill

Start a fresh with a new one... even if a title isn't given, a picture could be posted and the entrants have to incorporate the picture into their short... It takes time to get people interested in things... so, take no notice if people aren't entering, the only thing is to be creative... at least u shot a short film last weekend.. its valuable experience, taking every opportunity that comes

coolcon

trendkill wrote:

its valuable experience, taking every opportunity that comes

It is indeed. Its actually the very first time I used Adobe Premier Elements (the watered-down and cheaper version of Premier ) which I got at Christmas because before then I was just doing simpler things with windows movie maker! Great experience and great fun!

trendkill

we could try picking a genre too, such as horror or thriller maybe... say one picture for three genre's... I'm up for it. so. if the powers that be... come on..

coolcon

sounds good. a week is good, just make sure that nobody takes a minute more . So mods, whatcha think?

BlitzKrieg

ughh???

You dont need our approval.


Hopefully with both my PC cleaned up (porn porn porn and more porn)

and a new camcorder


plus the (hopefully) freedom and time to start shooting my own stuff.

I'll be able to enter a few of these competitions.


the only problem at the moment is i dont have a broadband connection in my new room, so i gotta deal with that first.


An idea I threw out on the other thread was maybe we could try constructing a 3-5 minute piece together. One poster puts up a script, or an idea, a second who has access to the necessary resources shoots it, and a third (or maybe the first) edits it. And anyone with whatever needed skill can fill in whatever piece.

it be funny, getting an american user to shoot coverage footage of new york or something, and then trying to fake an american apartment in dublin (did this myself for one film, had left over 16mm footage of new york, so mixed it with digital footage i had shot of a friend messing around in his apartment.)

trendkill

Its a good idea about one combined effort, but, the majority would probably like to take part in the shoot, thats the problem. It all depends on where everyone is from, i'm 30 miles west of Cork City in a place called Clonakilty(yeah yeah.. the blackpudding).

It would definitely be cool to do, if someone submits an outline.. treatment, script.... someone could then do the shooting script, someone could do the storyboards.. someone could act as a producer... try to find some cash... so for those who wanted to take part maybe could.., the prep could all be done online... but for the shoot, the majority of us would probably like to take part....

The short I'm doing I have to Finish by tuesday... Must rent a Bear in the big Blue House Costume.... for an actor, got banned from the film forum bout two weeks ago... and one of the guys that left a comment, uses the image of Bear in the big blue house... Shot a biographical short on it.. a guy getting banned for posting a question.... a guy then leaves a comment.. the guy blames him and then goes to kill him.. some black humour when the guy calls to the house... the guy from the forum answers his door in a bear in the big blue house costume... holding a bottle of beer. (maybe some ladies underwear on over the costume and a cigar in his mouth)
Doubt i'll post a link here because i'd probably get banned from here too as it is one of the same moderators.....

coolcon

BlitzKrieg wrote:

An idea I threw out on the other thread was maybe we could try constructing a 3-5 minute piece together. One poster puts up a script, or an idea, a second who has access to the necessary resources shoots it, and a third (or maybe the first) edits it. And anyone with whatever needed skill can fill in whatever piece.

That sounds like a good idea, but Im no expert in any specific field so I might not fit into that one. Just wondering, how would the raw video get to the editor?

trendkill

Could courier it or something on the Mini DV tapes, couldn't upload it through a gmail account because for 1 gig you only get 4 minutes of footage.... so it would definitely have to be a courier

coolcon

That short youre shooting Trendkill sounds very funny. I dont know the incident youre talking about though.

trendkill

i'll try to find the page, they deleted it i think, i'll have to log out and enter the film forum to get access to it.. they block your IP so you can't creat another account... i'll try to find it..

BlitzKrieg

trendkill wrote:

The short I'm doing I have to Finish by tuesday... Must rent a Bear in the big Blue House Costume.... for an actor, got banned from the film forum bout two weeks ago... and one of the guys that left a comment, uses the image of Bear in the big blue house... Shot a biographical short on it.. a guy getting banned for posting a question.... a guy then leaves a comment.. the guy blames him and then goes to kill him.. some black humour when the guy calls to the house... the guy from the forum answers his door in a bear in the big blue house costume... holding a bottle of beer. (maybe some ladies underwear on over the costume and a cigar in his mouth)
Doubt i'll post a link here because i'd probably get banned from here too as it is one of the same moderators.....

wtf?

Its like quentin tarintino and terry gilliam had an offspring and he grew up to be the man we know as trendkill...

If you pm me which mod it is, i'll see if you can put up a link or not, alot of mods wouldnt have a problem with it.

As far as i can see it is a more constructive response then alot of the other crap that is spewed out on feedback.

trendkill

They definitely deleted it, the thread was titled "Monsters, the TV series" saved the web page on hard drive though for the short, i'll upload what i've done so far and private message the link to you... probably take a while though, fair enough i did do something wrong cwhich i found out after i was banned immediately, which i didn't know a the time... but hell man, might as well have a laugh about it.

Coolcon, i pm'd you the link, you'll see why i got banned.... and why the bear annoyed me. The compression is not the best, half is only shot and its nowhere near finished editing, must add filters etc etc....blah blah blah

coolcon

Im going off on my hols next saturday so if we're having another comp, like Trendkill mentioned, Id like to do it this week. Otherwise I can shoot on location in the Costa Blanca . Ill only be gone for a fortnight. So who's interested in another comp - could you dish out some more titles maybe Blitzkrieg?

trendkill

Cool, the majority of my free time is going to evaporate after this week, so another comp would be cool..... Costa Blanca..... sweet.....

trendkill

So will we try again, you up for it coolcon, your going to the COst Blanca for 2 weeks so the deadline would have to be when you get back, tht is unless you have an edit suite on a laptop. the deadline isn't relevant, as long as we're being creative.... so shall we.

coolcon

trendkill wrote:

So will we try again, you up for it coolcon, your going to the COst Blanca for 2 weeks so the deadline would have to be when you get back, tht is unless you have an edit suite on a laptop. the deadline isn't relevant, as long as we're being creative.... so shall we.

Sounds good to me. I think I will be bringing the laptop so editing will be no problem - I just hope I can get wireless broadband where Im staying (to upload it). So Im up for it either way.

trendkill

Hey man,
so will we try one tomorrow, just one question... is everybody hanging out at that filmmakersnetwork.ie now or what..... should we put a post up there, explaining the rules and see if anyone there would like to enter........