Club Competition
Posted: Sun Jan 22, 2012 5:58 pm
Not sure whether this belongs here or under competitions.
Prompted by Willy's "knitting a film" idea for a friendly project I thought I'd post details of a competition we hold for club members. I'm sure most of you have siomething similar, but I'm surprised how often I mention this to clubs and they have not heard of it.
We call the competition the "10 to 4"
This competition appeals to those who like to edit (and perhaps don't take any footage themselves) and/or like cryptic puzzles.
Each entrant is supplied with the same 10 minutes of random footage (this footage is usually gathered from several members throughout the year) and has to make a cohesive film lasting no more than four minutes. Entrants may add titles and any sound (as well as use sound supplied on the footage) but may only use visuals from the footage. Quite a bit of imagination is required to come up with a cohesive story. This can be quite a challenge but it is quite fascinating to see how different people's minds work. As you can imagine, the resultant films are usually humorous, but I have seen a very good serious documentary about water come out.
Obviously this is unlikely to produce first class films, and the results are generally only ever seen once, on a club night, so I make no excuses for taking the opportunity of linking to a couple of mine from past years.
http://youtu.be/5qOmde6Y0po
http://youtu.be/k1Yroikgt9U
Prompted by Willy's "knitting a film" idea for a friendly project I thought I'd post details of a competition we hold for club members. I'm sure most of you have siomething similar, but I'm surprised how often I mention this to clubs and they have not heard of it.
We call the competition the "10 to 4"
This competition appeals to those who like to edit (and perhaps don't take any footage themselves) and/or like cryptic puzzles.
Each entrant is supplied with the same 10 minutes of random footage (this footage is usually gathered from several members throughout the year) and has to make a cohesive film lasting no more than four minutes. Entrants may add titles and any sound (as well as use sound supplied on the footage) but may only use visuals from the footage. Quite a bit of imagination is required to come up with a cohesive story. This can be quite a challenge but it is quite fascinating to see how different people's minds work. As you can imagine, the resultant films are usually humorous, but I have seen a very good serious documentary about water come out.
Obviously this is unlikely to produce first class films, and the results are generally only ever seen once, on a club night, so I make no excuses for taking the opportunity of linking to a couple of mine from past years.
http://youtu.be/5qOmde6Y0po
http://youtu.be/k1Yroikgt9U