I Challenge You to a Duel!

[ShortFilmSensei]

I challenge all of you interested to make a short 1 minute micro short film based on one thing as your central piece. We can decide the central piece by vote, or I can choose for us. Film it with your cell phone, or whatever gear you have. I can set the due date to the end of November. Anyone wanna take me on, see who can make the best micro short?

 

[Nate North]

Ah, but you see that's exactly what killed off the photo challenge on the other forum (or nearly did). You've told us - several times over - how your life is consumed by creating this kind of content, to the exclusion of just about everything else! So it's easy for you, surrounded as you are, by all your video resources, and being "in the groove" all day, every day.

It's quite a different situation for those of us who have other things going on in our lives, especially when those activities compete for the same resources or - worse still - when they make it impossible (or very undesirable) to bring the necessary resources into a different environment. Would you have let me borrow your Red camera to use while I was shifting 2-tonne tree-trunks with an excavator a few days ago, in the hope that I might catch sight of a wild pasta running across my path?

(No kidding: I haven't seen a piece of pasta of any kind in ... ... ... two, maybe three months, so were I to work around that theme, I'd first have to figure out how, when and where to get it - even for a still shot).

I decided to just disqualify myself from this contest, since some were saying that more serious competitors would scare everyone else off.

Anyway, here's the film I made for the contest. Since I decided not to enter, I just broke all the rules and did whatever.

The Search

Indietalk member Effectsworks worked with us on this one, creating the many unique sound effects heard throughout the film. It's a short demo film we made to build experience in the new system.

indietalk.com

 

[Scoopicman]

Loved your film, Nate. I now see why you put in that many hours. It's beautiful, though.

 

[Nate North]

Thanks, it was a fun film to make, as this was our first actual test film using the new system, so I was learning new things along the way. Took about 90 hours or so total, it could have been a lot less, but about 75% of the way through I figured out how to make the spotlights illuminate the fog, and then I went back and remade a majority of the film to include that technique. I actually wanted to do a lot more with it, but we needed to keep moving and develop other techniques. Otherwise I would have spent another 90 hours and built a better waterfall and spaceship.

 

[Nate North]

Still waiting to see the other entries.... has this thing been abandoned?

 

[indietalk]

 

[imagineering]

I challenge all of you interested to make a short 1 minute micro short film based on one thing as your central piece. We can decide the central piece by vote, or I can choose for us. Film it with your cell phone, or whatever gear you have. I can set the due date to the end of November. Anyone wanna take me on, see who can make the best micro short?

what do you intend to do with the short once it is finished? i once entered three 1 minute shorts into a brand competition , i think it was for pepsi, all 3 reached the final 16 worldwide but none won anything. here is the link for 1 of them.

short film new chance

sometimes chance is all you need

rumble.com

my point is. even though this short was done with next to nothing, we still spend money and time so there should be somewhere to go for it after it has been made.