DV CHALLENGE #3 THEME - GO GO GO GO!!! (for real this time)
 

For real this time. :)


THE THEME FOR THE DV CHALLENGE #3 IS:




CAMERAS




You now have until midnight PST on Friday the 16th to send me the URL to your 3-4 minute long film!!!! If you don't then it is the wall of shame for you!

Good luck!

Yippeeee, got it at last. Now.......................where do I start ?

Is there any specific technical area this time? Like "best cinematography" last time?

Andrew:
Write
Plan
Shoot
Edit
Upload
.
.
.
Win!!!

See, it's just that easy! :)

Yes, I believe I announced it in the prize package thread. It is accomanied by a sweet Chimera lightbank for the winner!

Uhmmm.. no? I can't find it.. am I going blind?

Yes. :)

Sticky thread in this forum.

http://www.dvinfo.net/conf/showthread.php?t=50006

Dylan,

Can you tell to us how many people have signed for this contest? just to add up to the pressure... :-)

30-40 people offhand.

Sorry... was blind... hmm.. makes me remember "USE THE SEARCH FUNCTION"

Ooh. OOH! I've got an idea! That's never happened before...

Gotta go get to work, good luck everybody!

If a shoot a movie of my Sony Z1U looking into a mirror, will I get stuck in an infinite loop? Would the space-time continuum cease to exist?

Hmmm Cameras eh...... :(

I start to get visions of those horible movies about making movies.

Well this theme makes it even more of a challenge so time to get to work (errr my job work that is) then tonight i can start writing.

If you use a perfect mirror on the inside of a sphere, and that sphere has a hole in it with a mirrored lid, you should be able to shine a flashlight into it and capture the light as it would in theory bounce around inside forever.

Cool? Yes. The part that will blow your mind is that if you have a reflection of yourself in the sphere and close the lid fast enough, your image will remain in the sphere forever...

Back to the script I haven't started...

Sean

Aha, careful there, I didn't say movies, I said cameras!

I KNOW people are going to take the theme in the wrong direction, so just to clarify, cameras; not movies, not making movies, not video production. :)

Just being picky but it can involve just one camera to? Otherwise I need to scrap my ideas...

Okay Sean, you're scaring me now. :)

Sure, you can do anything you like!

Sean,
If your image is in that perfectly mirrored sphere forever it will never be in your movie because your camera can't catch it.

I applaud you all and look forward to the films. One day I might have the time and balls to enter but for now I appreciate your efforts from the sidelines. My movie would approach this from an .... well maybe someone will do that so I won't say.

Good luck to all of you!

so does everyone have an idea or two already? I do. nanny-nany-boo-boo.

hmmm taking the theme the wrong way eh.

so Camera as in the court meaning? nothing to do with pictures?

Honestly you can do whatever you like with it, I'm just cautioning people that camera does not indicate movies nor video production specificaly.

Yeah cool, just i remembered that Camera also means "in private" or something and they use that in court cases (correct me if i'm wrong)

Anyways i think i have an idea.... and no its not about a court case..... or is it hehe

This is a tough one. But I think I have an idea that could work... Interesting that under pressure you come up with a lot of creative ideas and the more contests the more creative you get. I am looking forward to see all contributions and my own is finished. A lot of hard work ahead...

Camera...
 

Phillip,

"Camera" is indeed something like in private, or "in the chamber" - since chamber is the original meaning of the word, a chamber where you trap the light expose it to film.

...from there on, it's just a bit of imagination to stretch Dylan's theme to chambers in general... :)

I'll probably stick with the original word, anyway.

Hugo

Good lord, nanny-nanny-boo-boo? Who are you really?

So yes, yes I do have an idea so there mister smarty bottom.

All I can say is with a "Nanny-Nanny-Boo-Boo" taunting, it better be a good one mister. We don't take such challenges lightly here.

"Your father was a Hamster and your mother smelled of Elder Berries".

"Now go away or I shall taunt you a second time."

Back to my script.

Enjoy the weekend all,
Sean

Well, you really do learn something every day!

ANyway, you guys know I mean camera in the "soul stealing device" definition of course. :)

Exactly the theme of my short. Shhhhhhhh.

Sean

stop it you guys...you're stealing my freakin' idea!!!
-chuckle-

-Jon

Didn't Stephen van Vuuren et al already do Lost Souls? :)

I am doomed.

Ah, we're all doomed. It's just how you deal with it that makes you or breaks you.

Dylan,

You already did the "trapped" theme. Do participants get docked points if they use interpretations of themes that over-lap previous challenges? :',

don't answer that ... (I'm trying to be funny again)

nanny-nanny-boo-boo
 

"Mister smarty bottom?" Who are you? You can't just invent insult names at the drop of a hat. That one should have been at least tested with a group of second graders before reaching into the virtual realm. And I didn't mean to suggest that this challenge is being taken lightly on my part. Or maybe I should let you keep believing that i am, so you can disregard anything I say. That way, I'll surprise you on the 16th!

PS: I hope you know I'm just joking.

You know, I always found that doing that was one of the best things about being a guy. Me and a friend (notice I didn't say 'a friend and I') used to kill time at the back of English class making up new insults for eachother. Most of them aren't postable here. :)

uh... I don't think "mister smarty bottom" is an invented insult. I think that one is certified. I'm sure someone must have used that expression in the "Young Ones", way back in the early 90's.

But maybe I'm wrong.

Ah, but it was a pun...there were two lost "souls"...

BTW, I'm entered, but I'm just the lowly DP this time. Two members of my team from Lost Souls are writing, directing, producing and editing their very first movie.

The Young Ones rocked...

"Mister Smarty Bottom" grew out of not wanting to use the time tested "Smart Ass" in mixed company. I suppose we are all over 18 here (for the majority anyway). Besides, kids don't have the patience to read threads all day long like we do. They have better things to do with their time. Man, come to think of it, I used to have better things to do too. I'm old.

So, I wasn't making up the soul of the comment, just softening the verbage a bit.

Sort of a Sponge Bob version if you will. And yes, I too was just having a bit of fun. Never take me serious, really.

Sean (almost done) McHenry

yeah, it's always hard to tell on these forums. besides, there's nothing better to do than to communicate with people who think with similar brain waves. otherwise, i'd be talking to some local bozo about farming or something. hmmm... i wonder how many farming forums there are on the web.


owen (about-to-start-taping) bickford