Antman's Short Film Contest #6 - Feelings / drama

[Shigeta]

Theme: FEELINGS
Genre : Drama

Interpretation of feelings is wide, whatever the film maker wants to do with it (bounds of good taste must apply, language should not be offensive). Lighting, actors ability to "emote", cinematography to complement mood, and even music can all add to some very good entries.

This will be even more of a challenge to those who really hope to emulate hard hitting action, that sort of thing. But the themes we don't hold as our favorite types do present a heckuva challenge and that is what makes us grow.

My biggest challenge will be finding female acting talent if my story (and I have nothing in mind right now) calls for some. I have access to 2-4 good male actors, so I'm going to try to come up with an entry too.

Music...For those who don't buy royalty free like SmartSound, there is an excellent free to download, free to use collection of music at www.incompetech.com

You can, of course, send small donations to him by paypal, but all Kevin asks is that you credit him for anything you use. He has quite a variety and his terms of use are about the most generous you'll find. Even far less restrictive than "creative commons".

Let's roll...

-Bruce Foreman

[Bif]

Two weeks from the deadline for "Cops" is May 23rd.

So the DEADLINE for this one is Sunday May 23rd at 6PM Eastern time. (If I have it right).

[drapeama]

So the DEADLINE for this one is Sunday May 23rd at 6PM Eastern time. (If I have it right).

Yep, it was yesterday for the "cops" theme, next one IS May 23rd.

[Daniel Rutter]

Hmm... So, there's no limit on these... feelings? There could be some interesting takes on this. I may even enter this one.

Can someone please explain the 'feelings' theme a bit? I don't quiet understand...

[drapeama]

Can someone please explain the 'feelings' theme a bit? I don't quiet understand...

Feelings : Anything that require an emotion : crying, laughing or being angry... and it applies in any situation i guess.

[Vishus]

Good call Bruce! If people apply themselves to this, there is potential for some amazing stuff!

[KingDucky]

I'm kinda stumped on the feelings things too. Does it have too be essentially about feelings or can it be about a character that has certain types of feeling/emotion(i.e Mad). I mean I like the idea but I'm having ideas and I'm not sure if they would fit to the theme.

[Shigeta]

Feelings. He's given the prompt, it's your turn to interpret it.

[KingDucky]

Oki doke.

[drapeama]

Can we consider Wal Frieman as "having feelings" ?
...because i seriously think he'll come back with something for this one!
[BTW i'm just kidding him..]

[Bif]

I'm kinda stumped on the feelings things too. Does it have too be essentially about feelings or can it be about a character that has certain types of feeling/emotion(i.e Mad). I mean I like the idea but I'm having ideas and I'm not sure if they would fit to the theme.

Use your ideas. How you tie the character and the character's "feelings" together is entirely up to you.

Hit the viewer in the face with it.

[Bif]

Good call Bruce! If people apply themselves to this, there is potential for some amazing stuff!

Thanks a bunch. You definitely get it.

Now, if I can just produce one on this one I'll turn cartwheels.

This is a very creative crowd, surely we'll see some really good ones if people will take the challenge.

Check out the one just about to start over on dvinfo.net. This one is going to be to produce a trailer or promotion on an instructional, documentary, event, sport or something of that nature. That much we know before signing up (tossing one's spear into the sand), and on the 13th some "requirement" we must meet will be announced.

One month to finish.

Here's the announcement:

http://www.dvinfo.net/forum/dv-chall...up-thread.html

To compete you must register on their site (REAL NAME required) and sign up in that thread. I think I'm gonna jump in that one too. See if I can make an exciting "shooting sports" video.

[Daniel Rutter]

Alright... so I've cheated, and shot mine already... but I'm probably going to need time to edit it, so I'll spend the next two weeks shooting anything else I might need, and editing...

[Lawrence189]

That's actually a good idea to shoot right away, Daniel, procrastinating usually fails when it comes to these contests. I might just shoot tonight.

[Daniel Rutter]

Well I didn't even script mine. I had a fair idea about what I wanted to do, and just shot it. Hopefully my acting skills are up to par here :P

[MikePizzoff]

I just shot/edited mine this afternoon. I'm afraid that it's not too much of a drama, though... more suspense. Anyone think that'll be okay?

[Vishus]

I just shot/edited mine this afternoon. I'm afraid that it's not too much of a drama, though... more suspense. Anyone think that'll be okay?

Absolutely! Suspense can bring about a whole load of different feelings in different people!

[MikePizzoff]

Awesome! I've gotta wait a couple more days until my Vimeo account resets my upload allowance. I'm excited for my first film contribution to this forum!

[Daniel Rutter]

How's everyone going with their entry? I'm about to go back in fueled on coffee to try and get some editing done.

How many are entering this?

[Lawrence189]

I'm trying to enter, Daniel. I'm having trouble deciding the idea. The curse of thinking too much.

[Daniel Rutter]

I have some ideas, PM me if you want one...

[drapeama]

Got a solid one...but as always if i'm alone to do everything, it won't be possible to do.

[MikePizzoff]

Ugh, I've been done since Wednesday. Have just been having troubles exporting to a small enough file . Hopefully I'll get it to work today.

[Daniel Rutter]

Mike... get yourself Handbrake... that way you can render a high quality version (Out of your NLE) and then re-compress it (and select a desirable filesize) into Mp4 for upload

[Bif]

Just came dragging in at 1:00AM from shooting. Had to make do with only part of the cast I wanted, so we shot what we could. Still have a day or two to try and find another cast member and finish up with the original concept.

If not I'll edit what I've got and put something together.

I'm glad we seem to have some life going in this contest, turns out the theme and genre weren't as restrictive as some were worried about. My "take" on these things, is take the theme, see what you can make of it and don't worry about the "theme police".

Have fun.