Showing posts with label film festival. Show all posts
Showing posts with label film festival. Show all posts
Friday, October 17, 2014
My judging panel interns
For my lucky 13 who signed up to judge The Horror Film Race, we will be meeting in room CC10 from 11am-1pm. See you tomorrow!
Film Radar's calendar of LA movies
Some great stuff going on over the next two weeks!
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Tuesday, October 14, 2014
Want to help me judge a horror movie contest?
I know many of you Media Arts 129 students are horror fans! I have a cool opportunity for you this week!
I've been asked to judge the Professional Division films from the Horror Film Race!
The Horror Film Race is an annual film festival put on by The Art Institute of Dallas! Festival Director Professor Vince William has approved my use of student interns to observe and participate in my judging process. We'll give you a great job to add to your resume: Judging Panel Intern, Horror Film Race 2014.
Hollywood Industry people hang out with their peers and argue passionately about movies, so let's get you practicing this skillset and add it to your resume! There are 8 short films to judge, about 55 minutes in all. Watching the shorts, discussing them, arguing, and scoring should take about 2-2 1/2 hours (I know we're all talkers, and this should be super fun!). The ultimate decision comes down to me as the Professional Judge, but I want you all to use your powers of criticism, analysis, and persuasion on me.
I'm thinking we can get together in the library this week on Thursday (time to be determined by participants!). If that date doesn't work for the majority, perhaps we can meet at the Starbucks nearest to campus on Saturday or Sunday. The judging deadline is Sunday night.
We will judge on these five categories: Story, Scare Factor, Use of Genre, Visual Quality, and Overall Mood of the Film. Also, Judges can make individual nominations in any category.
The categories are:
Film of the Year
Best Director
Best Cinematography
Best Villain
Best Scream Queen
Best Blood, Guts & Gore
Best Weapon
Best Scare
Best Screenplay
Best Editing
Best Acting
Best Use of Genre
Best Costume of Horrorfest
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In related horror news, I found this Halloween sale at the Writer's Store on a cool-looking bundle of books and videos on how to write a great horror movie. I'm not familiar with any of them so I'm not personally recommending them, but investigate and see if you want them! It's a pretty good price, but maybe you want to split it with a few other students.
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Also, here is a horror comedy short of mine based on Italian giallos. The film festival version had licensed music from legendary horror band Goblin, from Dario Argento's 1982 Tenebrae. So watch it once with the current music and then picture this music. It's amazing how much music changes a film!
And here is a gruesome comedy short that won a bunch of awards. I made it the first day I got my Canon 5D, just messing around testing the camera with my sister, my friend, and my dog Hero. So this was me shooting with the lens that comes with the camera, using natural light and a Zoom H4N for sound. The editing took a lot longer, and was done by me in Final Cut 7.
The idea for CONSUMED came from me being on LA INK getting tattooed. I had to listen to the poor woman next to me tell her story on camera over and over again about the coyotes in the Hollywood Hills killing her dog, and how she had to pick up the pieces. Absolutely awful, and I made this movie to purge the story from my brain so it wouldn't happen to MY dog. An example of the art that comes from healthy purging.
The Horror Film Race is an annual film festival put on by The Art Institute of Dallas! Festival Director Professor Vince William has approved my use of student interns to observe and participate in my judging process. We'll give you a great job to add to your resume: Judging Panel Intern, Horror Film Race 2014.
Hollywood Industry people hang out with their peers and argue passionately about movies, so let's get you practicing this skillset and add it to your resume! There are 8 short films to judge, about 55 minutes in all. Watching the shorts, discussing them, arguing, and scoring should take about 2-2 1/2 hours (I know we're all talkers, and this should be super fun!). The ultimate decision comes down to me as the Professional Judge, but I want you all to use your powers of criticism, analysis, and persuasion on me.
I'm thinking we can get together in the library this week on Thursday (time to be determined by participants!). If that date doesn't work for the majority, perhaps we can meet at the Starbucks nearest to campus on Saturday or Sunday. The judging deadline is Sunday night.
We will judge on these five categories: Story, Scare Factor, Use of Genre, Visual Quality, and Overall Mood of the Film. Also, Judges can make individual nominations in any category.
The categories are:
Film of the Year
Best Director
Best Cinematography
Best Villain
Best Scream Queen
Best Blood, Guts & Gore
Best Weapon
Best Scare
Best Screenplay
Best Editing
Best Acting
Best Use of Genre
Best Costume of Horrorfest
++++++
In related horror news, I found this Halloween sale at the Writer's Store on a cool-looking bundle of books and videos on how to write a great horror movie. I'm not familiar with any of them so I'm not personally recommending them, but investigate and see if you want them! It's a pretty good price, but maybe you want to split it with a few other students.
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Also, here is a horror comedy short of mine based on Italian giallos. The film festival version had licensed music from legendary horror band Goblin, from Dario Argento's 1982 Tenebrae. So watch it once with the current music and then picture this music. It's amazing how much music changes a film!
And here is a gruesome comedy short that won a bunch of awards. I made it the first day I got my Canon 5D, just messing around testing the camera with my sister, my friend, and my dog Hero. So this was me shooting with the lens that comes with the camera, using natural light and a Zoom H4N for sound. The editing took a lot longer, and was done by me in Final Cut 7.
The idea for CONSUMED came from me being on LA INK getting tattooed. I had to listen to the poor woman next to me tell her story on camera over and over again about the coyotes in the Hollywood Hills killing her dog, and how she had to pick up the pieces. Absolutely awful, and I made this movie to purge the story from my brain so it wouldn't happen to MY dog. An example of the art that comes from healthy purging.
LAVC Media Arts Department Annual Student Projects Screening!
I just wanted to say what a pleasure it was to see so many of my students' terrific short films last Saturday! How wonderful was it to have our President Erika and Dean Laurie and Rudy attend, as well as almost all of the Broadcasting, Cinema, and Media Arts Department!
The work was stellar! I want to hear all about how it felt to have your work shown, if this was your first chance to see your film on a big screen or if you've played other festivals and screenings, if there's any editing you want to do now that you've heard an audience's reaction to your work, which film festivals you're going to enter it into next, and overall what you learned! Feel free to post below, or talk to me before class.
Remember to thank your professors who put this cool event together for you, especially Jennifer Penton, Aranxta Rodriguez, Chad Sustin, and of course our awesome Chair and Media Arts 129 Co-teacher Eric Swelstad!
I'm happy to mentor about any of the above or any other questions you have, and view your films again individually to give you specific feedback. If you have your short online for public viewing, please email me at Lisfies (at) gmail (dot) com if you are okay with me posting your short here. If you need help figuring out Vimeo or Youtube, I can help you set up an account.
I'm particularly impressed with the students who stuck out the whole four hours, and came up to me afterwards. Remember, the key to success in the film industry is building your network and finding your core team of filmmakers. So staying to support your peers' work instead of leaving after your short screened, or coming to the screening when you didn't have your own work in it are the signs of people who are ready to make it in the film industry! Congratulations!!!
Check out the coverage by LAVC campus newspaper The Valley Star.
While I'm proudly bragging about Media Arts 129 students' stellar filmmaking, remember that our Timothy Quirus still has his crowdfunding campaign going for Missy from Mississip! You can support him by donating or spreading the word on Facebook and Twitter @MissyFromMississip. Getting the campaign out there makes all the difference, so start practicing the Networking Golden Rule of doing four favors for every one you ask!
Thoughts, feedback, ideas to make the screening better next year? Post them below!
The work was stellar! I want to hear all about how it felt to have your work shown, if this was your first chance to see your film on a big screen or if you've played other festivals and screenings, if there's any editing you want to do now that you've heard an audience's reaction to your work, which film festivals you're going to enter it into next, and overall what you learned! Feel free to post below, or talk to me before class.
Remember to thank your professors who put this cool event together for you, especially Jennifer Penton, Aranxta Rodriguez, Chad Sustin, and of course our awesome Chair and Media Arts 129 Co-teacher Eric Swelstad!
I'm happy to mentor about any of the above or any other questions you have, and view your films again individually to give you specific feedback. If you have your short online for public viewing, please email me at Lisfies (at) gmail (dot) com if you are okay with me posting your short here. If you need help figuring out Vimeo or Youtube, I can help you set up an account.
I'm particularly impressed with the students who stuck out the whole four hours, and came up to me afterwards. Remember, the key to success in the film industry is building your network and finding your core team of filmmakers. So staying to support your peers' work instead of leaving after your short screened, or coming to the screening when you didn't have your own work in it are the signs of people who are ready to make it in the film industry! Congratulations!!!
Check out the coverage by LAVC campus newspaper The Valley Star.
While I'm proudly bragging about Media Arts 129 students' stellar filmmaking, remember that our Timothy Quirus still has his crowdfunding campaign going for Missy from Mississip! You can support him by donating or spreading the word on Facebook and Twitter @MissyFromMississip. Getting the campaign out there makes all the difference, so start practicing the Networking Golden Rule of doing four favors for every one you ask!
Thoughts, feedback, ideas to make the screening better next year? Post them below!
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