The unofficial hd short contest [Archive] - High Definition Digital Video Forum

Henry701

2008 December 29th, 15:29

Just trying out something new. :hv20-smilie03:
http://img377.imageshack.us/img377/5859/contest05iy7.png

Any suggestions on how long this should be run for? I was thinking till January 10, but that might be too short.

The winner will receive the honor of winning the first Unofficial HD short contest.... and a thumbs up :hv20-smilie77:

MORE INFO OF CONTEST WILL COME SOON

Henry701

2008 December 30th, 10:05

Just a little update: There actually might be a very good prize for this thing, depending on how things play out.

HOW TO ENTER: Post a reply with you full name and a link to your movie (Vimeo is preferred).

On the deadline I'll gather up all the info and then hope that a moderator is nice enough ( :) ) to create a poll for the final vote.

duotone

2008 December 30th, 11:01

I'll be getting my camera tomorrow... should be able to put something together pretty quick.... Here's a hint, my spot involves beer.

Jimmy M

2008 December 30th, 11:50

I'll be getting my camera tomorrow... should be able to put something together pretty quick.... Here's a hint, my spot involves beer.

Any spot that involves beer is a winner in my opinion! lol :hv20-smilie70:

electro

2008 December 30th, 12:30

i'd really like to do this!
I just need to find the time.

weasel-d

2008 December 30th, 22:18

I'm all for it and I know you want to get the contest going, but there should be a theme... lol

Henry701

2008 December 30th, 22:34

I wanted to be as general as possible for the first one, just to get many people started on it.

But maybe no theme is a little to far...

How about it has to be between 30sec. - 10 min. :hv20-smilie77: :hv20-smilie15:

BTLInternational

2008 December 31st, 14:27

maybe beer should be the theme, a youtube or website link will work for people to view the film, yeah??

electro

2008 December 31st, 16:09

youtube

...no... bad dog...
*hits BTLInternational with rolled up newspaper*

The beer theme is a good idea! If that'll be the theme I'm deffinately in!

2008 December 31st, 17:56

You could always upload as a QUICKTIME file to hv20.info,
and post the films url here in a thread between the [ qt ] and [ / qt ] (without spaces) tags.

That way there's no leaving this site, and the full upload quality can be viewed.

Instructions for uploading to hv20.info:
FREE footage and image hosting on hv20.info (http://hv20.com/showthread.php?t=245)

Flint Loveless

2008 December 31st, 18:19

Beer isn't age appropriate. Something else?

Flint Loveless

2008 December 31st, 18:23

How about the theme could be a feeling? Like fear, or suspense or something. Keep in mind I've proven myself an idiot on several occasions.

Just nothing lame.

Like discovery or something! Example; A point of the short has to be based on a discovery being made. Kids find their grandpa's old WW2 something or other and it turns out he's really Hitler or something. Then Tom Cruise comes in and tries to kill him or something. Maybe Adam Sandler could, you know... Be like, a boxer or something?

LAWLZ!

-Flint

Henry701

2008 December 31st, 19:38

Since its new year, what dose everyone think about "New years Resolution" as a theme. That defiantly applies to beer, but could also be about feelings and stuff.

I like your idea Loveless.

Flint Loveless

2008 December 31st, 22:45

So what, 02-01-09 due date?

:hv20-smilie72:

duotone

2009 January 1st, 00:09

Sorry, already started the beer gig here....

Up on Vimeo soon.

Just got my camera, lens's and such.... !!!

Whipsmack

2009 January 1st, 18:16

electro

2009 January 1st, 19:29

I really like the no themes contest! I really think people should have 6 weeks to 8 weeks though.

No theme contest allows people to use prior things they have shot on hv20 and I think that will give us much better competition and more great films to watch.

I personally find that using prior work sorta defeats the purpose of short short film contests.
And I've already begun production today on a beer related short; though I could tweak the conclusion to be fear/ suspense.

So, with all said, if the theme is changed my vote is for suspense.

conradstudios

2009 January 1st, 23:41

Bring it on. :hv20-smilie126:

koolpenguin89

2009 January 2nd, 02:35

Hello everyone, Im glad to see things have kept moving along in my absence. Henry, if you need any help with organizing/advertising/mod related stuff, just drop me a PM.

Dylan

howironicman

2009 January 2nd, 04:22

Can the short have copyrighted music that doesn't belong to the filmmaker? Just curious.

Henry701

2009 January 2nd, 10:38

Alright, I'm thinking that I should keep this no theme contest up, since there is a couple that look like they've already started. Run this for a couple weeks, maybe till the end of the month, so that on February we can actually start a contest with a theme (?and prize?). If everyone is cool with that.

And thanks penguin, I'm gonna be needing that help.

Whipsmack

2009 January 2nd, 20:20

electro

2009 January 2nd, 20:42

Also could we get a more precise date? We got a lot of work to do and need to know what our deadline is. Thanks

yah i have quite a bit of compositing ahead of me

SenorKaffee

2009 January 3rd, 08:49

"No theme" is alright - but to not compare apples to oranges it would be important to have a fixed length. 90 seconds VS 30 minutes is not really comparable, is it? Well, maybe next time. ;)

Can the short have copyrighted music that doesn't belong to the filmmaker? Just curious.

My opinion is that it is unfair to allow the use of copyright music and also not really helping the filmmaker to become better.

2009 January 3rd, 09:02

Unfair and illegal. No copyrighted music!

Henry701

2009 January 3rd, 11:47

Is it okay if it's in SD? The plan was to use my friends XL2 as main camera and we ended up downscaling the HD footage already. Well it turns out we never used the XL2, and soley shot on HV30.

Also could we get a more precise date? We got a lot of work to do and need to know what our deadline is. Thanks

Yea, it's alright if it's SD, but it better be good. ;)

Can the short have copyrighted music that doesn't belong to the filmmaker? Just curious.

Just like everyone else said. That is never a good idea.

Flint Loveless

2009 January 3rd, 14:56

It's only illegal if you use it to make money, which is why you couldn't have any cash prizes.

-Flint

2009 January 3rd, 16:08

It's only illegal if you use it to make money, which is why you couldn't have any cash prizes.

-Flint

THAT is not true at all.
In fact, it is SO untrue, I almost deleted your post.

Using copyrighted material without permission is illegal, whether you make money from it or not.

net

2009 January 3rd, 18:15

A contest now on YouTube called Project: Direct asks:

Direct an original short incorporating Moviefone's red phone and 2 other props that represent the most memorable films from the first 25 years of the Sundance Film Festival, and you could get the exposure you need to turn your craft into a career.

http://www.youtube.com/projectdirect

Maybe you can do something like that; have elements/objects that are required to be in each one...

Anyway, they're down to the 10 finalists and the shorts are really good. :hv20-smilie77: (click "Vote now" to see them.)

Whipsmack

2009 January 10th, 18:25

What about instead of a time limit, end the contest when there are 10 entries?

Chicken Warrior

2009 January 12th, 02:49

What about instead of a time limit, end the contest when there are 10 entries?

This is an excellent idea for the future.

Somehow I only heard about this contest now...dangit I have to enter one of these already (but both my cams are BROKEN still...thanks Canon).

duotone

2009 January 13th, 23:38

These darn clients of mine are sooooo demanding. I'm trying to sqeeze this in, I will be it won't be as polished as I'd like. I'm still waiting for the brewer to deliver me the beer!

Luxaltor

2009 January 24th, 05:39

I've been here a few weeks and I just noticed this forum, so I'll upload the only film I've made that I am really proud of.

It is not shot on HD, in fact, calling it SD would be a bit of a stretch because it was shot on Super 8 but here it is anyways:

http://vimeo.com/2941308

So does this make me the only contestant? I don't see anyone else who submited something.

Henry701

2009 January 24th, 23:06

Yeah Luxaltor, right now you have a very good chance of wining. ;)

You got a very interesting film there.

koolpenguin89

2009 February 3rd, 03:14

So what ever happened with this? Is there a winner or anything?

Dylan

mashimarojm

2009 February 3rd, 20:42

I'm curious of how this contest went...
I really liked Luxaltor's film :D

Henry701

2009 February 4th, 16:42

Well, I knew that there weren't going to many entries.... but there's only been one so far.

Luxaltor's film was good... maybe so good that it scared of all the other contestants?? I don't know what happened.

Luxaltor

2009 February 6th, 23:53

I'm a little disappointed... Wheres the competitive spirit in this forum?

duotone

2009 February 8th, 01:06

sorry, a client needed me to go out of state for a while.... need to pay the bills ya know.

karsten

2009 February 9th, 10:57

I'm a little disappointed... Wheres the competitive spirit in this forum?

The contest time is already ended :P in any case if you want to have a contendant i can enter this (and happily ending at 2nd place):

Mugello Rainy Day on Vimeo

even tought i'm WELL aware that it's not up to your wonderful work. i really liked the video, and you look like being a really good shooter and mounter, even tought i could teach you a couple of things concerning something called deinterlace... ;)

orchidsofwrath

2009 February 10th, 19:02

johnston.adam

2009 August 3rd, 22:48

That was pretty nice, but there were some plot holes and whats up with the light umbrella in the last shot lol.

Maxwell

2009 August 4th, 18:12

Beer isn't age appropriate. Something else?

Yeah come on guys I cant have beer in one of my projects. Here mom and dad watch my movie :hv20-smilie84:. This sounds cool we should do this more often.. :hv20-smilie77:. I guess I will put my project in.

cgbier

2009 August 4th, 20:56

You could take the dangers of alcohol as a theme. I have seen plenty of high school kids doing stuff like that ...
The more you b!tch against alc in your flick, the more mature the adults will think you are ... nuts

koolpenguin89

2009 August 4th, 22:09

Why are you guys bumping such an old thread?

Dylan

asomatous

2009 October 15th, 15:45

Don't really know whats going on with this. But it looks pretty unnoficial lol. So I suppose I'll throw this monolithic 15 minute film I just finished that I'm sure nobody will watch due to length (don't blame you) up.

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Wow a lot better than i expected. I liked how you set it up with blank cards during narration, although it doesn't really add up that the guy is saying "used to" but... he's dead. Unless you were implying the whole life after death thing, which in that case could have been played up more. I really liked the first attack, when that random guy beat the crap out of him "BRICK" style. The actors were all too young, but i guess that would have been difficult to remedy. The house at the end seemed less like a gang hub and more like an upper-middle class suburban living room.

Gotta say, i loved the "Don"s acting. Had a lot of spirit and though the accent threw me off at first, he really made a lot of the dialogue convincing.

Surprised there aren't more comments on this, honestly...