I was wondering if anyone is interested to do a docu competition? Doesn't have to be something real... fake docus are oftentimes better than real ones IMHO.
Documentaries?
I was wondering if anyone is interested to do a docu competition? Doesn't have to be something real... fake docus are oftentimes better than real ones IMHO.
"It is dark the other side. Very dark!" - "Oh, shut up and eat your toast!"
Yeaa. Fake documentaries are the best. Usually funny
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Sounds fun!
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I'm interested, 8K in new gear, been waiting for the snow to melt... So we talkin' Fake, Spoof, Mockumentary, or Real Deal? What are the Guidelines/Rules?
Wait! The snow melts in Winterpeg?!?Originally Posted by HD-tography
Yeah but only for 6 months of the year... which by the way are +35 degrees (Celsius) and INFESTED with Billions of Mosquitoes... Wait! Why do I live here again???
Guess now you know why Bob Sanders remains "perpetually angry"
Don't know yet about guidelines. I was thinking to give a topic and a maximal length of, say, five minutes. The rest is open. I wanted to keep is simple as possible with the rules.
Just be careful with copyrights. Rating G or max. PG (US rating system).
"It is dark the other side. Very dark!" - "Oh, shut up and eat your toast!"
But... But... Sex SELLS! Yeah OK, hmmm wondering if I should do a real one or a fake/spoof/mockumentary...
How long until a deadline? This will ultimately determine if I can participate or not...
You can do one of them wonderful "the sex life of a bee" movies we slept through on middle school...Sex SELLS
How's about 4 weeks as a deadline? Any suggestion for a topic?
"It is dark the other side. Very dark!" - "Oh, shut up and eat your toast!"
No topic. That should be wide open also. Just give the theme of documentary and let everyone go. Also, if no cuss words are allowed in a PG or whatever rating, then yeah, that should go too. Everyone is old enough to not be offended by a F*ck here or there.
+1
Semantics again. Sorry, that's what I meant.No topic. .... Just give the theme
"It is dark the other side. Very dark!" - "Oh, shut up and eat your toast!"
Ok, first Documentary theme: A historical event or location in your hometown/place of living.
Deadline: April 30, 2400 UTC.
Guidelines:
- max length of 5 minutes.
- project must be done for this contest (nothing from the can).
- no copyrighted materials without credit.
- PG13
Post your work on Youtube or Vimeo and link it to this thread. The contest will be judged by a vote of the forum.
Have fun.
"It is dark the other side. Very dark!" - "Oh, shut up and eat your toast!"
And you have to include these three items...
The Korova milkbar sold milk-plus, milk plus vellocet or synthemesc or drencrom, which is what we were drinking. This would sharpen you up and make you ready for a bit of the old ultra-violence.
Nope
"It is dark the other side. Very dark!" - "Oh, shut up and eat your toast!"
I don't know if I'd call it starting my own contest. I just think we are short on docus here on this forum. Always them music videos, horror and action flicks get boring after a while.
"It is dark the other side. Very dark!" - "Oh, shut up and eat your toast!"
Actually, docus are pretty simple. See is a visualization of a college paper or something like that. You write about something you know or researched about. Just film that script. Straight storyline without many gizmos attached.
...and it doesn't have to be a real event. You can come up with something.
"It is dark the other side. Very dark!" - "Oh, shut up and eat your toast!"
Is this happening? Might even give it a shot... 5 mins is pretty short, though. You get one or two good talkers in an interview, you've got 20 minutes before you know it
+1
+1 (10-15 minutes is likely better suited for a doc), and the limit on most YouTube accounts, it's not exactly a short now is it, it's more about the content, so squeezing it down to 5 mins may actually hurt the finished product or writer's initial vision, you can only cut so much. I am OK with 5 mins though (like as if my opinion mattered, lol) but I think if we are going to do this, it's important not to loose sight of the ultimate Truth... that these productions are supposed to be about one thing, HAVING "FUN"!
If we're voting (not sure we are) I would say under 15 mins, but below 10 mins would certainly be better suited for a doc than just 5 mins.
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Running at around the 5-minute mark, some of these entries are quite entertaining.
http://www.creemoremocks.com/
http://www.youtube.com/user/creemoremocks
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Yeah OK... 5 minutes is plenty if the story/production isn't good... LOL those examples at the link above have painfully bad audio! I don't think I have ever seen as bad as that! Still, some were entertaining, like the barrel one... lol
Tell me about it!! But my point was that it is possible to make one in five minutes.
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