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....