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Indie of the Month!
A monthly competition with a new theme or challenge each month.

April is:
Social Distance Film Challenge

Most of us are confined to home for the time being. We hope everyone is safe and well! This is all about using your available resources. PLEASE do not violate any safety protocols. DO NOT get a bunch of people in the same room. NO! You have to make something by yourself. Challenge yourself while keeping others safe! If you are quarantined with others that can help please still, practice safety!

However, you are free to network with other indietalk members remotely! This we encourage. Need music for your film? Editing? A writer? Network in this thread and build your QuaranTeam. If a team wins, all members will receive the award. But they must have been noted as a team member in this thread and have posted.

Requirements: This must be an original work made for this challenge (i.e. it must not pre-date this post and it must meet all requirements). Any length, any genre. Video or audio format. Yes, composers that means you too! (Audio upload/SoundCloud embed). Inspirational or pure entertainment. Covid-related or not. Funny, educational, whatever! We can escape what is going on if just for a moment, or we can be inspired, or learn. It's up to you. So create something. Anything. By yourself or remotely with others—because after all, you may be by yourself but you are not alone. We are all in this together.

Entrants: You have 21 days to submit your entries, and 1 entry is permitted. If you have entered, and are on a team as well, another team member must post the official entry.

To enter click Add Media on this page.

Voters: Voting begins after the submission period, you will see a button on each entry. Be sure to bookmark your faves! You will only have one vote so use it wisely! You will not be able to vote for yourself, and any improprieties will be detected*.

Most votes wins. Ties are broken by a 24 hour voting period.

You will see new posts in this thread when members enter, vote, and when deadlines are approaching.

Winner receives:
  • 1 year indiePRO membership
  • A special IOTM membership with an "IOTM Winner" badge
  • A "Winner" ribbon over your entry
  • A "Winner" ribbon over your avatar for the month
  • A winning contest to add to your press kit
  • Bragging rights
Enter every month and if you win, you can extend your membership each time!

ENTER!

*Anyone caught manipulating the system will banned from indietalk. Do not even try!

Good luck!
 
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onebaldman said:
Any editors/composers want to work with me on this?

I am thinking of doing it as a comedy/real take. I don't want to spoil the idea here, but if anyone feels like working together on something rather than separate, send me a message. I'm down to collab.

All my film gear is in storage right now, so I plan on sticking to the rules by not getting any of it and sticking to a cell phone/what is on hand to make this.

Warning up front: I am a "crazy idea" guy... Meaning, my ideas change quickly and suddenly in the early planning stages depending on what inspirations I get.
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Absolutely! I'm a composer, sound designer, and post-audio producer so any audio needs you have I can take care of. Feel free to email me at finalimpactstudios@gmail.com. You can check out my demo reel here under "Credits:" https://finalimpactstudios.com/about
 
I decided since we are home schooling to add photography to the school day and my son is loving it (not a huge suprise as all the men in the family bar 2 are photographers but my son usually loses focus after 10 seconds and is really taken by this) so its a great oppotunity to add film making especially since him dream is to be a 'blogger' one day and do 'skits' (though I'm not a comedian at all lol).

I have decided to try and teach him and myself the technical side of filmmaking (I'm am currently a writer, acress and stills photographer so cinematography, sound, editing etc... are completely new to me) might be the kick up the ass I need to start expanding my skills.

We did a test run last weeks but camera settings where wrong (stange how wierd it is going from stills to film, all the settings move on my cannon so its like using another camera altogether) and theres no sound (I did buy a cheap recorder but we have yet to attempt it) but we did cut it in hitfilm into a sort of story, we are hoping to try again next week so might be fun to enter this even though there no way it will compare to other peoples stuff.

I think what my son loves though is the fairly quick gratification (we shot and had it in editor in a few hours) and if he gets something right he can see it almost instantly thanks the digital camera (oh, how lucky he is back in the day we had 30 attempts and had to either pay to develope it or borrow a dark room and it took hours to see how bad you messed up lol I imagine editing moves was even harder) verses things like music when you have to repeat the same thing everyday for weeks to get better so please be kind if we do upload something as I want to keep him encouraged.
 
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BBfilms said:
I think what my son loves though is the fairly quick gratification (we shot and had it in editor in a few hours) and if he gets something right he can see it almost instantly thanks the digital camera (oh, how lucky he is back in the day we had 30 attempts and had to either pay to develope it or borrow a dark room and it took hours to see how bad you messed up lol I imagine editing moves was even harder) verses things like music when you have to repeat the same thing everyday for weeks to get better so please be kind if we do upload something as I want to keep him encouraged.
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That's what these challenges are really all about, just getting us to exercise together and share in the creations. Or at least, that's what I'm seeing it as. There are plenty of competitions and festivals to submit to if you want attention or rewards, but this is more about the feedback and community.
 
PaulWrightyThen said:
You can see! I'll try and do an up to date thread on the process. Like a diary! Where's best to put that @indietalk ?
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I just went ahead and posted it under the PRE-PRODUCTION cat. You can glance it over here if you like: threads/making-a-low-budget-sci-fi-film

I would love to see more pre-production threads on this forum. I get a massive boost of inspiration from hearing peoples stories and seeing how they work.
 
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I know its a long way off perfect but this is what we managed, any tips would help (think lighting is the next thing to work on to reduce noise/grain)
 
BBfilms said:
I know its a long way off perfect but this is what we managed, any tips would help (think lighting is the next thing to work on to reduce noise/grain)
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Dang, I can't watch cuz my work doesn't let me view anything other than Vimeo... Which is weird considering Vimeo has more "adult" content... But I will definitely check it out when I get home.
 
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