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Sundance Online Film Fest Call For Entries
SOFF writes "The Sundance Film Festival is announcing its fourth annual Sundance Online Film Festival, which showcases the most innovative and creative storytellers using new digital technology. We invite all emerging and established digital artists, filmmakers, and storytellers to submit works in the following competitive categories: Animation, Short Subject, New Forms, and Gallery. Deadline: September 12, 2003."
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Hey, it's nice to know about this with only 37 days left until the entry deadline. I'm sure that amateur/budding film makers can find the few hundred thousands of dollars in backing they need from investors, gather actors, scripts, props, film crews, arrange permission and licenses to film in necessary areas, chop, process and edit the films, package them up and submit them in just 37 days. No problem!
No machinima category! Or does that count as animation? Seriously, they're bound to bore /. readers without a machinima category. (Or some sort of IP-related lawsuit to rant about.) But seriously, will the technology ever progress enough to be seriously considered? And MORE seriously, will SOMEONE please come up with a better name than machinima? Gah!
I had a bit of a browse last year, and there were some pretty cool flicks. Hopefully this year it is as good. Good for filling in time.
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This is where OSS and Linux tools for video production can REALLY shine. It's free people, completely free. For absolutely no cost y'all have equivalent tools the big boys use for movie production and there's no reason we can't bring out some fantastic productions.
Perhaps it's too late now for entries this year unless you've already been working on them (congrats to those who have) but for next year I'll be sure to be in!
napster bad I'm proposing that the camp chaos cartoons sending up Metallica be entered (although they're cartoons).
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Obviously, somebody has to point out the Academy Awards Of Halo Videos to them. It may not have the best technical effects, but RvB has a reasonably consistent story line, and it's gotten a good number of long belly-laughs out of me.
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So you have to produce it specifically for the 'net, but you're not allowed to post it on your own website (at least not until after the film festival).
It kinda makes sense, but mostly it just makes me cringe.
Free Software: Like love, it grows best when given away.
I'm up for interest. But I don't know what tools I should be using. I can do the sound mixing and the sound recording okay, I guess. I'd use Audacity and sound-record.
But what should I be using for the animation itself?
And how do I mix it with the sound, then?
What OSS programs are good here?
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gin up a quick film, post it somewhere we can get to it and run up the hits on the website. Show Sundance how popular it is and BAM! enter that puppy at the festival. That would be cool.
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Wonder if the Star Wars Kid is eligible for this?
... and here's where I insert my gratuitous plug for my own SWK video on that site. It's good for a laugh."Powers. I have them."
You know the old Hollywood joke about the blond who was so dumb she fucked the writer? In the new version, the blond is so dumb she fucks the modeler or programmer! Do you think the new version stretches the credibility of the joke teller too much?
It works on so many levels!, according to reviewer Homer Simpson.
Anyone has an idea where to take a look at older entries from the last Sundance Online Film Festivals? Nothing on their website(s).
Here is a festival where you get a little more for your work: www.filmfestival.com.au
In my humble opinion digital "film" looks like crap. If you want to go cheap use 8mm. Digital film looks like video, oddly flat and the motion seems to be happening at a slightly wrong pace. It isn't an issue of resolution. It's probably an issue of color depth, and I don't really know anything about shutter speeds and aperatures or whatever else might be having an effect. All I know is that watching movies shot on digital is a distinctly uncomfortable experience.
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Its still just gonna be gay cowboys eating pudding.
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As an independent filmmaker myself, I don't even have the $25 fee!
My films are made like this:
) borrow camera from friend, forget to give back
) steal videotapes from kmart
) convince friends they are acting for a "school project" to avoid paying them.
) profit!
Hey, it's worked for me before.
My nomination for Best Short Subject is Kevin Costner's career.
His quote from the trailer of his new movie (apparently one of the better lines): "Some men are going to be killed here today" (cut to gun shooting) "and I'm gonna be the one killin' them."
Highlights from the biography:
"After making one soft core sex film, he vowed to not work again if that was the only work he could do. He didn't work for nearly six years..."
"His frontal nude scene in For Love of the Game (1999) was reportedly deleted after being met with laughter at test screenings."
"Sioux nation gave Costner a tract of land after making Dances with Wolves (1990). Costner built a golf course on that land."
And of course there was Waterworld, The Postman, 3000 Miles to Graceland and, of course, Waterworld.
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I recently bought a PD-150, and the color depth is remarkable. I'm hoping to get some documentary work in addition to filming some screenplays I've written (small cast and no budget stuff). The least of my concerns is the DV quality.
Ardour is a multichannel hard disk recorder (HDR) and digital audio workstation (DAW).
Audacity is a free audio editor. You can record sounds, play sounds, import and export WAV, AIFF, and MP3 files, and more.
JACK Rack is an effects "rack" for the JACK low latency audio API. The rack can be filled with LADSPA effects plugins and can be controlled using the ALSA sequencer. It's phat; it turns your computer into an effects box.
Second, video capture and editing:Kino is a non-linear DV editor for GNU/Linux. It features excellent integration with IEEE 1394 for capture, VTR control, and recording back to the camera. It captures video to disk in AVI format in both type-1 DV and type-2 DV (separate audio stream) encodings.
Cinerella combines most of the basic functions needed to produce motion pictures with a capable compositing system. Advanced editing, YUV compositing, and realtime effects are some of the things Cinelerra does. Cinelerra's 16 bit YUV compositing engine has been optimized for multiple CPU's, reduces generation loss, and significantly reduces compression time. Capturing from IEEE1394, Video4Linux, Motion JPEG, and screenshots is supported.
Third, animation:
Blender is an open source software for 3D modeling, animation, rendering, post-production, interactive creation and playback.
Fourth, post-processing:
CinePaint(formerly Film Gimp) CinePaint is a free open source painting and image retouching program designed to work best with 35mm film and other high resolution high dynamic range images.
I have used Kino, Cinerella, and Blender (a little) and was impressed with each of them. The audio tools look promising and CinePaint has some Hollywood titles to its credit. Maybe I'm a fool, but it seems that the "digital revolution" is giving open source, non-proprietary software tools a chance. Moviemaking is requiring more and more geeks. Being free got OSS in the door. Now, they're getting some much deserved polish.AMD's sponsoring a contest to promote animation and digital short film development for 64-bit. Two grand prize winners get an Athlon64 system, $6,400 and global visibility at AMD's launch events for Athlon64. More info at http://www.amd.com/us-en/0,,3715_9392,00.html?redi r=ANUS01