Looking forward to it.

I've got my new Hoodman Hoodloupe EX1-R kit (on my Sony V1!) and new blimp ready to go. So I'll be able to see what I'm shooting now, and I won't have a wind problem. Not from the microphone anyway...

Always nice to have some new toys for a UWOL challenge! I will while away the days by re-organising my camera backpack to see if I can trim off some weight.

I'm with Sam and Mike. I've got some new tools and a Challenge would be a great time to learn to use them. Unfortunately, I also have jury duty at the end of the month.

Sorry to break it to you all, but I'm not going to be able to run a Challenge this month after all. I'll be on a raft on the Grand Canyon for most of March, and the expected arrival time to begin the trip is a week sooner than I originally expected. There won't be time to execute a Challenge before I'm due at the put-in early next month....

Apologies -

but, as I always say, you don't need the contest to get out there and make your movies. Pick a theme, grab your camera, and get to work!

Have fun rafting, Meryem!
Keep the camera running :)

And to all of us, let's go out and shoot something.
Some of Dale's suggestions could be fun to try.

Why don't we organize our own kind of informal theme and do a challenge?
People could throw some theme ideas in a hat, maybe we take the top five or something and we can go out and do a film based on one of the top five theme?

I think we can do polls here so maybe we throw some ideas around and get something going.

That's a great idea Kevin!
Dale has already given some theme suggestions.

How about we use some of these? Say we vote for the "top 3", and then each of us can choose which of these 3 "winner themes" we will use for our video?

Of course, if any others also have theme suggestions we can include in the voting, post them.

Do it yourself.
 

The UWOL DIY Challenge. I like it too. My suggestion for theme is "Behind the scenes"- one minute showing any footage you want and two minutes showing you getting that footage and discussing setting up the shot, etc.

OK...this is good! Count me in...

So far we have these 7 theme suggestions:

This old Tree"
"Never ending story"
"Mysterium"
"Invasive species"
"Death of a season"
"Modern day ruins"
"As time Passes By"
"Behind the scenes"

How about we make a poll, voting for either one, or the "top 3" of these?

If we make it quick, we could have this up and running by Friday, giving people this weekend also to shoot. Then I suggest the deadline to be Sunday March 14, midnight everywhere, which gives us 3 weeks.



EDIT:
Anyone know if the "make poll" option is gone? I don't see that poll checkbox the FAQ refers to:
http://www.dvinfo.net/forum/faq.php?...#faq_vb3_polls

2 more theme suggestions:

"Rock of Ages"
"A day in the Life"

Day in the life would be a one day shoot.

this is a great idea: lets do it.

One more theme:

"ON THE ROAD"


Lets each pick three: the three with the most votes will be our options>


I will be glad to orchestrate this.

I can post the list: then everyone could email me their three, I could consolidate them to the list and post them all or just the final three.

be glad to do it.


List to date

This old Tree"
"Never ending story"
"Mysterium"
"Invasive species"
"Death of a season"
"Modern day ruins"
"As time Passes By"
"Behind the scenes"
"on the road"
"Rock of Ages"
"A day in the Life"

Dale

dale.g@sasktel.net

Ok, let's do what Dale says.

Everyone send a message to Dale with your top 3 choices out of the list, and the 3 most voted themes will be the ones we can choose from when we make our videos.

Hurry up and send those mails!

Let's get going with UWOL #16... or will this be 15 1/2?

...........
Dale, if you need an extra hand organizing this, let me know.

Tronde,


The perk of being retired is I can make time for anything of importance.

If in need you will hear from me.


dale

Sent off some of my suggestions to ya Dale.

This is kind of exciting! :)
I like the idea of having a choice form the top three to pick from. Should be no excuse not to get one in. ( myself included )

Dale also got my votes.
Can't wait to get started. I'm excited about this one.

Since so many already have announced their interests in this thread, should we concider this thread the signup thread?
Or how about everyone is required to "signup" in the Theme thread Dale will post later?
Ideas?

Go Canada Go!... I mean Dale... Go Dale Go!!

Complete list::

Sense there are so many possibilities, please pick 4 and submit them.

If you have emailed me once go ahead and resubmit after seeing the additions.


This old Tree"
"Never ending story"
"Mysterium"
"Invasive species"
"Death of a season"
"Modern day ruins"
"As time Passes By"
"Behind the scenes"
"on the road"
"Rock of Ages"
"A day in the Life"
Solitude
Patterns in Nature
Silence
The Elements
It's the Little Things in Life that are Small
Mother Nature
On the Road

I will post the theme tomarrow after noon.

It would be great to get started this weekend.

sign up anytime in the next Week even though some have started.

Completion date monday March 22.

Judging open to suggestions, perhaps by those completing.


Dale

Did we vote? just turned in some suggestions I didn't know that those would count as our votes. :)

Kevin,

I edited the prior message. I had not got your email. Went back and there it was, some great suggestions to by the way.

As far as I know these are them all, certainly plenty to pick from.

Ahhh, there we go. I thought how did we get the field narrowed so far down already. :)

I think we should certainly start the challenge at like 12:01 Friday or Saturday anywhere in the world to take advantage of the upcoming weekend for sure. Or until Dale releases the theme. :)

Will look over the choices and email you my top four tonight.

Look forward to getting started on another challenge!!

Top Four emailed to you Dale!

A word of caution.
 

I don’t want to put the breaks on, but this is starting to sound awfully semi-official. Has anyone run this by Meryem? I know none of us wants to do anything that might upset her, or worse, hurt her feelings. Do you think she is OK with this? Any thoughts.

Thank you for the consideration, Mike, but no, I'm all for it. The key to success is making yourself irrelevant.

I always meant it when I said you don't need UWOL to make great films.

UWOL has always only ever been an agent for helping people attune to their planet in the company of like-minded people. The rules and the format are designed to aid the process and build the community, they aren't the process itself.

Good luck, friends, make something beautiful.

Mike, think of this as a UWOL 15 1/2, while we wait for Meryem to release the next very official challenge.
Most important rule is always nr 11: Have FUN!

Great! Glad to hear it. Count me (semi-officially) in!

I voted (late). Count me in.

theme
 

Good evening,

Sorry for so slow a response: I had surprise company show up from Alberta this morning and we had pleasure of their company until 4:00.


The theme unfolded to be:

"A day in the life"

it was a definitive winner!!

We will go for the dead line of Monday March 22nd, that gives at least four weekends.

No one mentioned judging so I reckon the finishers should all select the top three and then the one with most votes is the winner, etc. Simple and fair.


Go get them friends!!!!