The theme for The DV Challenge #6 is:


THE SUN

Congrats, you now have until next Sunday night, to write, shoot, edit, render, upload and email me the link to your three minute film.

GOOD LUCK!

The Sun???? That's it??? Oh no. I'm drawing a blank.

How many videos i'm going to have to watch of sun shots.....

So no twist this time? I remember you saying something last time along the lines of "The twist I had planned for DVC5 will have to wait for DVC6", and here we are. I see no twist, sir. Contest seven, I presume? Or has it been abandoned altogether?

Wow. What a bright idea.

The twist is there is no twist. :)

Honestly, yeah, I did have one planned for use with a different theme, but I liked this one so much just as it was that I figured I'd let it go as is.

Oh thank god, I can use my Sony HC1 at F4...

Actually... I had the sun in my DVC #2 entry... "the sun might be one of the secret ingredients in what we are now about to see..." To bad I can't leave in same entry twice. ;)

I'm so bright, my mother calls me "sun"!

I might be showing my years of experience here (or lack of), but isn't it bad to point your camera at the sun? Or is that just for stills? Or is that just a myth?

I might be showing my years of experience here (or lack of), but isn't it bad to point your camera at the sun? Or is that just for stills? Or is that just a myth?


Oh Great. Now you tell me. I've been shooting sun shots for the past hour. Is it bad that there is smoke coming out of my camera?

Oh Great. Now you tell me. I've been shooting sun shots for the past hour. Is it bad that there is smoke coming out of my camera?

As long as your camera doesn't actually burst into flames it should be alright.

Anyways.

THE SUN!?

Isn't that more of a thing than a theme? Or is it just me.
Okay, so Dylan... does it actually have to do with the sun, or can the sun or characteristics of the sun just be involved in the storyline?

Does the word have to be interpreted by its spelling, or can it be interpreted phonetically? As in other words that sound the same.

Okay, so Dylan... does it actually have to do with the sun, or can the sun or characteristics of the sun just be involved in the storyline?

I dunno Joey, you tell me. :) That is the theme, you can do whatever you like with it. The better you use it creatively, with a good story, the more likely you are to do well in the judging.


Andrew, the sun means the sun, that big fireball doohicky in the sky.

I dunno Joey, you tell me. :)

Yes.
and good.
Thanks.

I KNEW I should have bought that graduated filter! Now, who knows if it can arrive on time.

Ok... the sun shouldn't be too hard to find these days in sunny Lisbon.

Now, can you pack a sun-related social-, inter-personal, and personal conflict in less than 4 minutes?

http://www.lyricstime.com/live-sun-lyrics.html :D

Best,

Hugo

Sun (noun.) - a star that is the basis of the solar system and that sustains life on Earth, being the source of heat and light. It has a mean distance from Earth of about 93 million miles, a diameter of approximately 864,000 miles and a mass 333,000 times that of Earth. It contains 99.85% of the mass in the solar system.

What a whopper of a topic. Sun Bloody Sun.

Im questioning the possibilities....


and there aren't a lot at the moment.

Geez, here in S. Texas it's "sun, sun everywhere and not a frame to capture...."

this could be interesting....

Do I have an idea or what?! Now if only I can gather up enough of a cast and many extras.

Sorry Joey,

I didn't mean for my response to be a conjecture of the simplicity of the topic.

I was meaning for quite the opposite. It's such a general theme that it's difficult to narrow down on ideas. Like any assignments, it's often times when we're under the must constraints that creativity works the most (best?) to compensate.

Sun Bloody Sun was meant to be a pun for the abbreviation for John Schlesinger's 1971 film.

no problem man.
i didn't even know you were talking to me, hehe.

and yes, the sun is such a HUGE general topic it is really hard to think of a story.

Problem is, it is gloooomy where I am at. no sun to be found!

I have an idea.

Bloody Great !. I live in south of UK and it is cloudy with rain at the moment. Where am I supposed to get some sun from ?. I am going to have to improvise on this one !

Question Dylan:

Does the story have to be soley written by me, or could it be written with someone else?

Joey, pending a more erudite answer from Dylan, I think it is fair to say as a general matter that you must have the rights to whatever screenplay you use in a production. If you're collaborating with someone and they did most of the writing, I'd expect that would be fine, just as you can have any number of actors. They're part of your productio team. However, if you were surfing the net and found the perfect screenplay, but it belongs to someone else, then that's no different than using music you don't have the rights to.

Works with the right Creative Commons licenses can be used, however, because CC is not copyright. Many CC licenses allow you to use, appropriate, re-mix, adapt, build upon, etc. the work so long as you follow the restrictions. Creative Commons means some rights reserved. Copyright means all rights reserved.

Ya definitely.

It was a friend of mine who gave me a very good idea (IMHO) and I would like to further write it.

He would obviously get a writers credit too!

Are we not allowed to use copyrighted music, even for these little films?!

Joey

Exactly, if you don't own the copyright or have the rights to use the copyright, you can't use it.

The Sun ?
Err...right.

i love this theme! i have a great idea!

oh right, i didn't sign up. never mind.

I'll pay you in cash for your idea....

Why the sun?
WHY?

Joey, pending a more erudite answer from Dylan, I think it is fair to say as a general matter that you must have the rights to whatever screenplay you use in a production. If you're collaborating with someone and they did most of the writing, I'd expect that would be fine, just as you can have any number of actors. They're part of your productio team. However, if you were surfing the net and found the perfect screenplay, but it belongs to someone else, then that's no different than using music you don't have the rights to.


Thanks Pete, that's exactly it!

I'll pay you in cash for your idea....


Hey, I've got at least 4 or 5 good ones I'm not going to use!
While my ideas may be expensive, I'll guarantee you that they will get you into the (ahem) judges top 10 choices at least! :)

Hey, I've got at least 4 or 5 good ones I'm not going to use!
While my ideas may be expensive, I'll guarantee you that they will get you into the (ahem) judges top 10 choices at least! :)


Define Expensive... More than a loaf of bread? less than a bottle of cheap scotch?

Define Expensive... More than a loaf of bread? less than a bottle of cheap scotch?

I'm easy, but not cheap. :)

I'm easy, but not cheap. :)

Hey... That's what the last girl I went out with said.

No idea. The Sun also Shines. The Sun also sets...
Hummmm.... May have to buy that bottle of Scotch.

Well, I have an idea anyway. Now if I can pull it off.

Funny how slow the posts to the other threads I watch get when the theme is announced! DEAD slow! Everyone still there?

Dylan, what kind of scotch was it you wanted to motorhome stocked with for NAB next year!?!?!?!? :)

Mike

ho ho, now there's a little side business...keeping wall of shamers off the wall of shame! with sixty-plus entries, that could be quite lucrative.

Took me all day, but I've got it! A little more effects heavy than I would have preferred, perhaps, but since I won't take the CG route, it should be manageable. Simple backgrounds, tight shots, and as many physical props as I can manage, and I should be able to make this look the way I want it to.

Onward and upward, as they say! Hope everybody else is making headway.

I'm making very little headway?

The way I'm going, the sun is merely a symbol for something. Is that okay Dylan? Please, just yes or no... not "it's up to you!" that confuses me ;)

Well i've googled just about every variation on SUN. Even contemplated The Art of War by Sun Tze or however you spell it. I've gone through just about every sun God out there, Apollo is looking good cause I would get to wear a toga. Maybe I could even find a Goddess of dawn that I can chase around. The Inca Sun God is looking appealing because I can shoot some stuff where I pull out a beating heart.

Found a bunch of stupid Sun poems.

The sun rises, The sun sets
Will I be alive tomorrow, who's taking bets.

I thought of one where i'm on a horse in the desert, sun beating down. Will I survive??? Only problem is I don't have a horse and I'm not near the desert.

There is a 3k run next friday where everyone runs around central park in their underwear, maybe I could make that work with the sun theme somehow.

I even thought of dressing up like the sun, run around following someone dressed up like the moon.

I could go the Sean route and do a darker them like a vampire short where i can't see the sun but Sean is probably already in production for that.

Let me try googling Sun Backwards, NUS

I just had a great idea... then I beer another drank... what was I posting?

I just had a great idea... then I beer another drank... what was I posting?

Ok, back away from the beer. i think you've had a one to many.

Sunrise, sunset, swiftly flow the years.... Sounds like a good song.....Maybe with a fiddler on a roof, with the sunsetting behind him, hmmmm. Wonder if anyone has done that....

Hey Dylan,

Just wondering... what were your other few choices for the DVC6?

The way I'm going, the sun is merely a symbol for something. Is that okay Dylan? Please, just yes or no... not "it's up to you!" that confuses me ;)

You can really do whatever you like, the more creatively you use the theme in your story, the better you will likely do.


For everyone else... Dylan tends to prefer Islay Scotches... ;)


Oh, and... Nah, I think I'll keep my alternate ideas to myself for now, I still like some of them enough to maybe use later.

Exactly, if you don't own the copyright or have the rights to use the copyright, you can't use it.BTW, that reminds me...I hold patents for all technologies leading to the physical construct of "THE SUN", as well as trademark on all symbols thereto related and copyright on the text. So you guys all pay up! Or buy me a beer at NAB next year. ;-)