And The DV Challenge #10 theme is... "Scare Us!"

[Daniel Ross]

I did ask specifically about language, before and you didn't answer that. ['**** **** ****' as a line, which as bad as it would get] In the case of my film, that's probably the only real concern. (and some acceptable gore)

Plus some drug usage, but I don't see that as a major issue.

[Marco Wagner]

Originally Posted by Daniel Ross

I did ask specifically about language, before and you didn't answer that. ['**** **** ****' as a line, which as bad as it would get] In the case of my film, that's probably the only real concern. (and some acceptable gore)

Plus some drug usage, but I don't see that as a major issue.

Daniel, it is good to at least get an idea if you can use it. In the last DVC-I basically went and viewed the entries for the last half dozen contests and found it's NO problem *IMO. Even the winner on one i can remember had some "bad" words.

[Marco Wagner]

Originally Posted by Meryem Ersoz

who knew how twisted you were, marco? calling my bluff...thanks for the offer, though! I think. blech.

LOL you're truly a good sport. I'm fresh off of a round to the chest (from a stunt gun- 8mm) and a good fall for a short film about 3 weeks ago - :-) Dying is fun when it's not real, tee hee

[Daniel Ross]

LMFAO. Or should I censor that to LMAO. So... can't type it, but can have it in the movie?
(Btw, not at all normally how I would speak, but it seems to fit... and it's in quotes.)

Anyway, I'll just risk it, then, since it doesn't seem I'll be getting a straight answer on this stuff.

Thanks for trying.

[Kristina Bock]

Cool! Thanks for the info all, I'm kinda new at this. :-) I don't think ours is even going to come close to being disgusting or bad taste...
can't wait to see how everyone interprets it, looking forward to watching the results!
Cheers,
Krissi.

[Greg Boston]

Just remember how good Sir Alfred Hitchcock was at scaring us without resorting to gore/splatter/etc.

-gb-

[Meryem Ersoz]

Originally Posted by Marco Wagner

LOL you're truly a good sport. I'm fresh off of a round to the chest (from a stunt gun- 8mm) and a good fall for a short film about 3 weeks ago - :-) Dying is fun when it's not real, tee hee

i don't know about that, marco. i think the very definition of a "good sport" is the guy who offers himself up as the primary victim in the killing fields of moi...!

[Daniel Ross]

Originally Posted by Greg Boston

Just remember how good Sir Alfred Hitchcock was at scaring us without resorting to gore/splatter/etc.

-gb-

The problem, there, is that I can't imagine his style fitting a 3 minute film; it was slow and lead up, very slowly, to a scary conclusion.

That's our challenge, here.

[Meryem Ersoz]

i dunno know about that. my main challenge will be keeping the zombie army from getting too loaded at their pre-shoot make-up party.

[Dylan Couper]

Originally Posted by Daniel Ross

The problem, there, is that I can't imagine his style fitting a 3 minute film; it was slow and lead up, very slowly, to a scary conclusion.

That's our challenge, here.

You haven't seen the last scene of Psycho? You could recut that into a 3 minute short film on its own.

EDIT: Technically, I mean the *second* last scene in Psycho. :)

[Jonathan Jones]

Originally Posted by Dylan Couper

You haven't seen the last scene of Psycho? You could recut that into a 3 minute short film on its own.

The closing shots where they are pulling the car out of the swamp?

-Jon

[Dylan Couper]

Originally Posted by Jonathan Jones

The closing shots where they are pulling the car out of the swamp?

-Jon

Oops, I forgot that the film actually ends on the car being towed from the swamp.

I meant the scene before it that shows Norman Bates as his mother.
"They’ll see, they'll know, and they’ll say, 'Why, she wouldn’t even harm a fly!'"

It wouldn't take much to set that ending up in 3 minutes as a DVC short.