Entries for the Boards Film Festival

BlitzKrieg

Right.

first week of january, is the time we have set up for the boards film festival. MonkeyFudge is taking care of the location and i am organising both the entries and the program.


Here is how you enter your piece.

First you get it on minidv. (If this is not possible pm me with the formats you can get it on, but please try and get minidv).

Then send me a pm with the following details for each Individual film you are entering, if you are having more then one entry i will need one for each film.

Name of entry:

Length:

Name of cast and crew:

What equipment it was filmed and edited on:

You may also provide the following 2 details.

Your contact details and the sort of positions your available for.

A brief paragraph about the piece and/or filmmakers.

This is to ensure i know how many tapes i am expecting in the mail and if it doesnt show up that i can find out which tape and contact you for a replacement. If you followed all this and i dont contact you about it being lost in the post, and your film does not appear in the festival, you may savagly maul me.



Then you mail it to the following address.

Connla Lyons
Mill Road
Thurles
Tipperary
Ireland




simple.


From that i will put all the pieces on 1-3 minidv tapes (depending on length) and do up a programme for everyone at the festival.

YOU ALL HAVE TILL DECEMBER 17th TO GET THE ENTRY SENT TO ME. (THAT MEANS SENT BEFORE DECEMBER 17th!)

If anyone here has contacts with some high quality programme makers (or anything similar) pm me to see if it can help.


Questions and comments are welcome.

BlitzKrieg

BIG FLASHING RED WARNING LIGHTS!



i knew i forgot something.


I am not 100% on the details but if you have a copyrighted piece of music or piece footage on your entry, then i recommand removing it and replacing it with non copyrighted material.

As far as i know screening such material in public (even if it has free entry) can bring alot of sh*t down on the organisers (me and Fudge, maybe even Boards).

I could be wrong and await correction, but from what i can find and what i have found in my own experiance, it is better not to risk it.


UNLESS you can get permission from those who own the copyrighted material, remove it from your piece. IF you feel you can get permission (RTE, local band) then get it and add the details onto your piece. but i doubt anyone here is gonna get into contact with Metallica before christmas and get permission.

Chevano Riley

oooh, i may think about getting something in for this.

in relation to the rights issue: films incorporating copyrighted material cannot be shown publicly (like all those places DVD's list: oilrigs and the like).

theres hella lots of places to get music under Creative Commons licences. Archive.org Open Source Audio is great. much of it is beautiful and understated and makes for great film score. see www.creativecommons.org for lots more places to get tunes.

BlitzKrieg

well thanks for that.


Hope to see some of your material at the festival.

BlitzKrieg

another thing i forgot.


Closing date for entries is the 17th of december

monkeyfudge

I personally plan to enter an as yet untitled monkey related project.

dlofnep

Is DVD ok? I'll have to edit and do some post-production work. It won't be possible for me to submit it on DV tape.

BlitzKrieg

yeah..dvd will be fine. if minidv is impossible.

BlitzKrieg

For Dfolnep and others intending to send via DVD.

when your sticking your project onto the dvd make sure its a DV-stream.

dlofnep

I had a shooting delay but I'm fully certain it will be complete long before November 30th. I'll send it in as soon as it's shot and edited. Not much to be done, it's only a 4 minute short.

Geranium

Hmm...I do have a film but there's a whole dance scene and some Doors jokes in it so the music is fairly important... Should I bother entering it? Also it was entered into another film festival before and the copyrighted music was not a problem as it was an amateur event. (The Fresh Film Festival). The music sections are very short though as well. Couldn't we get away with it?

monkeyfudge

Oh I'm sure we probably would get away with it.

But that doesn't stop it being copyright infringement and it's best not to get into the practice of using copyrighted material in your short films.

Actually I was reading recently about why the fillm Bubba Ho'Tep, a film all about Elvis, didn't actually feature any Elvis songs... it was because the rights to use an Elvis track would have taken up 50% of the overall budget for the film.

Geranium

I don't see the harm in it, if they're only amateur films. Obviously if it was a professional production and you had a budget of five billion simeoleons you would.

BlitzKrieg

the warning is there just to cover myself and monkeyfudge's hide. If it is 100% impossible for your piece to work without the tracks then you can put them in. I'm only acting out of advice i got from other amateur screening i went too.

-i think the best thing going for us is that we are not having the screening in a cinema, as the actually cinema itself would pull the plug on the festival if we use copyright material.

Geranium

Ah okay, I'll take out the music from the credits as it's too long. Whenever you find out the venue I'll see if I can enter it or not. I totally understand your position, thanks.

Lump

Hmmm I might send my piece off.... I'll have to have words with the director. No Copy right issues though, as the music is original.

John

Lump

Any idea of the location. Can we attache info on how to contact the Producer etc, just incase some one is interested. What guarantee do we have that our film won't appear on RTE With your name on the credits


John

Lump

Eh, my piece is 45-odd minutes long, is that a problem. Sorry about multiple posts.

John

monkeyfudge

I have a venue on the North East side of Dublin.

45 minutes might be a bit on the long side for what we're planning. But I guess it depends on how many entries we have.

BlitzKrieg

Can we attache info on how to contact the Producer etc, just incase some one is interested.

sorry to sound nasty, but i have had about a 100 similar questions by pm.

the original bloody post wrote:

Then send me a pm with the following details for each Individual film you are entering, if you are having more then one entry i will need one for each film.

Name of entry:

Length:

Name of cast and crew:

What equipment it was filmed and edited on:


You may also provide the following 2 details.


Your contact details and the sort of positions your available for.

A brief paragraph about the piece and/or filmmakers.

I will hopefully be putting together a programme with all the information anyone could want on each entry. If you want to have contact details put on it, i will put the contact details on it.

Lump

Well if 45 minutes is too long, there's no point in me sending it. Can you let me know. Blitzkrieg, I didn't know if the contact details you wanted were just for your use, or if they'd be made public. IE, I'd put my details if it was for your use, but the Director/Producer's details if they were being made public I don't know what questions have been asked to you via PM

John

Lump

Well is 45 Minutes too long? Can I get an answer?

John

BlitzKrieg

this is a piece you have already put together right?

Well, its all ifs and donts.

As of the moment we have had 1 entriy. My pm box sits empty and not a single minidv has come to my house in the mail etc.

so of course if things stay relatively mute, i.e very few entries actually materilize, then a 45 minute entry would be no bother, but only if you can accept being put on the spotlight for a grueling Q+A.

But if by mid october early november i get flooded with entries, then we would perfer a shorter entry of you so we can have more time to screen work by other members.

Sorry that i cant give you a definite answer.

Lump

Spotlight? Oh, I won't be going to the festival. Neither will the Director, we're both in England and since there's no indication of who will be there, or if there is going to be any other films entered it's probably best if we don't follow this up.

John

BlitzKrieg

OI!


The date for the Boards.ie Film festival has been moved back till the first week of january that means you have until the 17th of december to prepare your piece for entry.



As of the moment the number of entries is still pretty much 000.


Which is very worrying.

just so you all know.


Entries brough to the festival that have not gone through the process outlined on page 1 will NOT be shown.

this is for 2 reasons.

1 -if a piece has something that dances on the grey area of the law, the organisers need to know about it.

2. -If no one actually sends us a copy of their pieces we will cancel the festival due to lack of interest.


For me and Gavin (monkeyfudge) to know exactly how much time we need etc we need to have a solid confirmation from the parcipitants. and that confirmation is.

-A PM giving the cast, crew and technical details of the piece.
-A copy of the piece on mini DV or DVD (DV STREAM!)

the closing date is 17th of december.


-For any of the students on this forum, if you could inform your lecturers etc about this event, then maybe some of your classmates would like to enter aswell.

Goodshape

No entries? That is a bit shat :-/

Working on something (documentary on a dublin art movement) at the minute, in-between actual paying projects... hopefully it will be done in time for the deadline.

68 lost souls

Just finished shooting today. Ruff edit will be done by next weekend and then we will have to write, record and re-edit. If its done in time would it be ok to send in a film that is over an hour long. Its done on a budget of about 600 by 6th year students in our spare time. I would of course have to talk with the director/producer first.

I can asure you its great quality aswel, we had a film in Darklight last year, mostly the same cast and crew. Heres a link to the festival brochure for our last film http://www.darklight-filmfestival.com/pages/s_sun_broken.htm

BlitzKrieg

would it be ok to send in a film that is over an hour long

lump asked us a similar question above.

its on 2 minds here.

If we get alot of entries over the next 2 weeks or so, then no, as a hour long piece would not give enough times to other entries.

If we get very few entries then its fine, but your gonna have to take a gruelling Q+A as your entry will prob be the most prominant (being an hour long)

68 lost souls

That would be grand with the cast and crew but Id have to check with the Director. I asked him today and he sayys it will be a squeeze to get it done in time though. Heres hoping. Can you let us know what venue and date we are talking about for definate?

Patricide

I was just in a short and i know the director wants to send it off everywhere just to get his name out, i think its only like 5 mins though, like i said its really short.Is that ok?

BlitzKrieg

all the details are on the front page of this thread.


yes short is fine. most of the pieces will be around 5 minutes anyway.

BlitzKrieg

Ok 9 days (there abouts) left for entries.


At the moment we have 4 entries from 2 people.


But due to the large amount of time it took for those entries to make it to the set address (

longer then estimated for reasons i do not understand almost 2 bloody weeks, for something the size of a bleedin letter. normally i recieved mail within 4 days

) We shall be changing the address for entries to the following (changes will be made on front page)

Connla Lyons
Mill Road
Thurles
Tipperary
Ireland.


-just so i wont get in trouble for entries that show up 2 weeks after the required date despite being sent out on time.

BlitzKrieg

Sadly due to lack of entries, the boards.ie film festival will be postponed until further notice.


i dont know if it was the timing or the how it was organised or simply bad luck but there just does not seem to be enough interest in a festival at the moment.


But hopefully if at a later date interest in the festival is on the rise we'll take a second stab at it.



any questions etc are welcomed.

monkeyfudge

How about we tentatively look at trying this again at some stage in May?

BlitzKrieg

works for me...there's no problem organising it, the only difficulty is getting entries for the festival.


we'll see how everyone feels after the hangover that is the holidays is over.

shnaek

BlitzKrieg wrote:

Sadly due to lack of entries, the boards.ie film festival will be postponed until further notice.

That's a real shame. I'll see if I can get on to some people I know with short films.

shnaek

Any moves on this fest, or has the idea been abandoned?

BlitzKrieg

i'm busy at the moment as i have an entry in the cambridge university film festival...and am entering the darklight festival next week (along with sligo and cork hopefully and san francisco)

But once we get pass MAY i'll have alot more free time and am willing to try again.

MrVestek

Well there really was nothing concrete for me to enter for the last planned event but seeing as I'm working on a feature film as we speak it shouldn't be a problem. It'll be about 30-40 minutes long.

Lump

30-40 minutes is hardly a feature! I might have something to enter if it happens.

John

MrVestek

Heh, well meh it's the longest film I'll ever have made anyways.

68 lost souls

Yeah Im looking forward to this being rescheduled, we have two films entered into darklight this year, Im sure we would be willing to put them forward for a boards fest, one is a short between 5-10 mins and the other is an hour long.