Wheatgrinders Monthly IT Challenge For March 2011

Idea:

Capture the season of spring in under a minute, mit out sound, with at least one instance of macro photography.
 
Uranium City said:
Idea:

Capture the season of spring in under a minute, mit out sound, with at least one instance of macro photography.
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Meh...I'm past spring in this locale. What's up with no sound? It's half the experience. I could fake spring, but we would need a level of difficulty. :lol:
 
I guess... and this is only my interpretation... but my take on "challenge" is just that -- having to do something you're used to falling back on or taking for granted and having to remove that very thing from the equation. Kinda like a game of Horse.

OK, this one is just with your left hand, your left eye closed, whistling Dixie, and you can hop on a foot of your choosing.

That sort of thing. You still have to make it in the basket, it's just that much more difficult, challenging, to accomplish.

And not to sound snarky (nyuck nyuck) but sound, IMO, is not half the experience of cinematography, which is what the challenge is about. Again, it's interpretation.

But hey, this isn't Palmer's Challenge, it's Wheatgrinder's, so I'm only chiming in as part of the community process.

Really, anything goes.
 
i agree with flickr here...

its probably best that we do something we dont like doing... hhahhahahah so i guess since i hate pron... i will do that hahahahahahahahahahah

right everyone in agrience we dont like boobies right :D

just kidding...

but i am extremely excited...

weither its

comedy

macro

silent

or cityscapes...

i am just excited to try pushing my self
 
oh and can we get some feedback this time... like constructive criticism feed back...

i need lots of it... and on the last months there was some early on in the comp... but then it seems people grew tired of it... or something...

just a thought...

i am only doing this stuff for the experience... and it seems to be helping... but i also would love some feedback from you guys...

either way i am still doing this because its fun to have an excuse to get to pull my cameras out and act all professional... while i drop and break stuff hahahhaha
 
licenseless,
per your video. I was having a hard time getting past the fact the top of your head was missing. :) where did it go? were you wearing a black bandana? black knit cap? very interesting trick you got there! ;)
 
Flicker Pictures said:
licenseless,
per your video. I was having a hard time getting past the fact the top of your head was missing. :) where did it go? were you wearing a black bandana? black knit cap? very interesting trick you got there! ;)
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hahahahahahahahahahahaha

was it really that hard to get over... my bad hahahah yeah i always have a black hat on backwards... i have to have it because i have a mohawk and my boss wont let me go with out the hat...

so ... i forgot all about the hat... i honestly dont think i have seen my self with out the hat unless i have a mohawk up in 3 years... so i didnt event realize it threw out the whole editing process hahahahahaha

plus that and the video is of low quality...

i am going to upload the high quality version and repost it over on the challange page... probably wont make a difference... except in a few scenes
 
licenseless said:
i am going to upload the high quality version and repost it over on the challange page... probably wont make a difference... except in a few scenes
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If you want some feedback, try posting it in the screening room. You can attribute it to the challenge but it will be it's own thread instead of bring buried in another.
 
I'm on Part 3 of McKee's STORY and came upon this quote from Eliot. Seemed fitting and worth posting.

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Flicker Pictures said:
I'm on Part 3 of McKee's STORY and came upon this quote from Eliot. Seemed fitting and worth posting.

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eeewwww... i like it... great qoute

makes since... i need more limitations...we should make this challange very very precise...

make it so precise a lot of us come up with the same exact idea... but see how we all do them differently...

ie... the life of an ant in macro...

or ... the reason a dog always checks him self out in the mirror... POV shots

something real precise...
 
Let's vote now. The more time I have to figure out what I'm doing the better. That way you guys don't have to watch a delirious ramble from 4am.:)
 
I'd vote for "Night Shot" or "Cityscape"

here's my suggestion:

Into the sunset, make the last 1 minute of a fictional film and then end by going into credits.

There's a whole art to just ending a film right. It's a challenge that takes a lot of creativity, and doesn't require any one shooting style.

OR

Twist Flashback, reveal the twist in a fictional movie via a series of flashbacks. (tyler durton reveal in fight club)

For a pure cinematographers challenge. Cross track 3 subjects in the same shot. (watch opening shot of boogie nights, like 1 single shot for 7 minutes)
 
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OK, thats IT! Iv had up to hear with the likes of you people! Oh, wait, I thought youz waz circus midgets? Sorry..

No more Ideas accepted. I will untangle these various stream of consciousness ramblings in to some coherent assignments and post a poll soon.
 
wheatgrinder said:
OK, thats IT! Iv had up to hear with the likes of you people! Oh, wait, I thought youz waz circus midgets? Sorry..

No more Ideas accepted. I will untangle these various stream of consciousness ramblings in to some coherent assignments and post a poll soon.
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Just for the record, I object to the dog porn with no dialog. :lol:
 
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