DV Challenge #5 - Finalists
 

Quick, before I get lynched, go watch the first four films!!!

Bill Gardner
Love Bites
Good quality: ~58 Mbytes, 480x360, 24p
http://www.wrgardner.com/LoveBitesHiBW.wmv or
http://dsp.ucsd.edu/~wgardner/LoveBitesHiBW.wmv
Fair quality: ~20 Mbytes, 320x240, 12p
http://www.wrgardner.com/LoveBitesLoBW.wmv or
http://dsp.ucsd.edu/~wgardner/LoveBitesLoBW.wmv


Steve Shilson
Tracks of Reality
Windows Media Player Verison (31.7mb)
http://www.steveshilson.com/TracksofReality.wmv
Quicktime HI (34.4mb)
http://www.steveshilson.com/TracksofRealityQT.mov
Quicktime LOW (12.8mb)
http://www.steveshilson.com/TracksofRealityQTLOW.mov


Bradley L. Marlow
INTROSPECTACLE
http://www.wyomingwinking.com/f/Intr...le_blm_320.mov
http://ia310113.us.archive.org/2/ite...c5_blm_wmv.wmv

Robert Martens
No Other
http://www.gyroshot.com/movies/noother/noother-wm9.wmv
http://www.gyroshot.com/movies/noother/noother-wm7.wmv

Day 2

Lorinda Norton & Hugh DiMauro
Techniques
http://www.bluejeanvideo.com/clips.htm


Phil Gioja
Take Me Back
http://www.centerstreetproductions.com/dvc5


Dick Mays
Jeremy’s Letters
www.theatre4film.com/JeremysLetters.mov
www.theatre4film.com/JeremysLetters.wmv


Meryem Ersoz
Still Life
mp4 link (small version):
http://ia310117.us.archive.org/2/ite...rogressive.mp4
h.264 link (larger, higher rez version):
http://ia310103.us.archive.org/2/ite...StillLife2.mov

Day 3

Mark Utley
Fruit Pursuit
http://www.mumps.ca/fruitpursuit

Kris Holodak
Lost In DC
http://home.comcast.net/~kholodak/gif/Lost_in_DC.mov

Chris Barcellos
Proof Of God
http://makeyourfilm.net/Download.html

Darryl Ahye
Sherman Reflects
http://youtube.com/watch?v=zvzF4mkOF9c

Day 4
 

Michael Fossenkemper
The Wrong Turn
http://www.turtletonestudio.com/films/DVC5.html

Mugurel Dragusin
Theory
http://www.digitallymotion.com/theory428x240.wmv

Volker Krieger
Phoenix West
www.vk-videokunst.com/phoenixwest.mov Quicktime
www.vk-videokunst.com/phoenixwestdivx.avi .AVI
EDIT (ADDED LINK 17 Apr 2006, 0200GMT at Volker's request):
www.vk-videokunst.com/phoenixwestmp4.mov (QT 720x576, 12 MB)

Joe Winchester
G.R.E.
Large quicktime (25.6mb) http://www.carolking.com/joe/G_R_E_large.mov
Small quicktime (5.3mb) http://www.carolking.com/joe/G_R_E_small.mov
H.264 Quicktime (78mb) http://www.carolking.com/joe/G_R_E_h264.mov

Rich Zlam & Kate Spiegel
Mirror Mirror
http://www.ourmedia.org/node/202167

Cory Cone
The Escape Artist
http://cory.xstreamhost.com/short%20...capeartist.mov


Tyler Baptist
2.5 Kids
www.mumps.ca/video/twopointfivekids.mov (MOV - 55.7mbs) High Quality
www.mumps.ca/video/twopointfivekids.wmv (WMV - 24.4mbs) Medium Quality


Mitchell Stookey
The St. Louis Light
http://cory.xstreamhost.com/short%20films/stlouis.mov

Bill Hamell
Give Away
http://cinebydesign.net/giveaway/giveaway.wmv Windows Media
http://cinebydesign.net//giveaway/giveaway.rm Real Media


Sean McHenry
A Memory Of A Dream
http://video.google.com/videoplay?do...+dream&pl=true


Scott Cozad
The Dream Stone
http://slygo.com/dreamstone.asp


Bruce Broussard
Who am I
http://www.broussardvideoproductions...ads/whoami.mov
high resolution
http://www.broussardvideoproductions...WhoAmI_med.mov
full HD
http://www.broussardvideoproductions...hoAmI_high.wmv

Andrew Hood
Burnt
http://media5.uploadjar.com/file.php...rnt_v3xvid.avi
mirror:
http://www.gimehost.com/lCUqrdnCsR6B9TKARak0
or
http://www.gimehost.com/FLQOUiEya1dume7Eqify

Edward Slonaker
The Road Taken
http://www.elpilon.com/dvc/roadtaken.asf
http://www.elpilon.com/dvc/roadtaken_swf.html


Robert Kirkpatrick
The Autumn Queen
www.crowfeatherfilms.com/dv/autumnqueen.mov


Joff B. Rein
Badcop
http://www.streamload.com/xid/EL/RD3BNZNL4U/badcop.wmv
or
http://www.streamload.com/Deliver/De...ID%3D968835671


Brendan Marnell
Raptors Bouncing
http://www.archive.org/download/Rapt...rsBouncing.mov


Well, that's it folks! A big Fonzie sized thumbs up to everyone who submitted a film! If for some reason I missed your link, please send me a panicked email asap.
What is next? Everyone who submitted a film is now responsible for ranking their top five choices and emailing their choices to me at thedvchallenge@hotmail.com in order of 1 thought 5. See the judging thread for more details.

Panicked emails from a few DVinfo'ers have yielded a few more entries:

Andrew Khalil
Who am I
www.putfile.com/akhalil


Joel L. Young
Death After Life
http://video.google.com/videoplay?do...57329269760055

Wow, a year after our first DVC we have just wrapped up the biggest challenge yet. 31 completed entries is a pretty impressive number, and I'm proud to be a part of this with all the rest of you.
Just submitting a film is like winning. Talk is cheap and everyone and their uncle are filmmakers these days, so when you actually get something up on screen you are one huge step ahead of everyone else. So here's to you guys and girls!

Next, a big thanks to Guy Cochran at www.dvestore.com for putting up a VIDEO IPOD as a prize! Guy has been with us for a long time and while I still haven't figured out a way to enter and win my own competition, he keeps tempting me to do so with great prizes.

And of course to our own Mike Teutsch who has donated one of his custom made video dollies as a prize. A prize any filmmaker can use!

Also big thanks to Mark Aardsma of ATS Acoustics, a manufacturer of acoustic panels for studios, control rooms, home theater, etc. who has donated a $150 gift certificate to their online store, www.atsacoustics.com

Then there is a big personal thanks to everyone who has donated cash, bought t-shirts (new ones on sale now!) or volunteered in any other way. It is always appreciated!

One personal big thanks to Rob Lohman who has been a huge help both with running the website and with DVC5 as it expanded. Rob, you rock!

And finally to Chris Hurd for giving us a home here on DVinfo.net, the best darn video forum out there!


Ok, now on to the part you really care about... Who won the darn thing?


Well, there were some really fantastic entries. If it wasn't for the judging scheme I set up for this one, I would have drank myself stupid trying to decide. However, there was a pretty even consensus as to the winner... but first the finalists. I pick finalists based on a film recieving a certain number of votes. In this case, because there were so many votes, I set the minimum number of votes to be a finalist at 5. This means at least 5 people had to rank you in the top 5.

Finalists in no particular order:
Bill Hamell - Give Away
Dick Mays - Jeremy’s Letters
Scott Cozad - The Dream Stone
Sean McHenry - A Memory Of A Dream
Michael Fossenkemper- TheWrongTurn
Bradley Marlow- INTROSPECTACLE
Meryem Ersoz - Still Life
Robert Kirkpatrick - The Autumn Queen
Steve Shilson - Tracks of Reality
Bill Gardner - Love Bites
Mark Utley – Fruit Pursuit


In the past, I've announced some runner's up. This time there were several entries that recieved so many votes (and because there is no prize for runners up) that I will post the top five films (in no particular order). They are:

Final Five Finalists Films (not in order)
Michael Fossenkemper - TheWrongTurn
Bill Gardner - Love Bites
Robert Kirkpatrick - The Autumn Queen
Steve Shilson - Tracks of Reality
BradleyMarlow - INTROSPECTACLE

Congrats guys, these five were great!
And yet.... there can be only one champ...



AND THE WINNER OF THE DV CHALLENGE #5 IS:

BILL GARDNER - LOVE BITES

Three cheers for Bill, fantastic entry!
Shoot me an email to get your prizes hooked up, and I'll warm up the laser printer for the now famous cheap certificate!


Thanks you all and I hope to see you all back for DVC6!