DVC 8 Theme announcement - GO GO GO!
 

Here is the theme for DVC 8!



TELEVISION


(told you it would be NAB related)
That's it! You now have until midnight, Sunday the 29th to shoot, edit, upload your short, and email the URL to me at thedvchallenge@hotmail.com


TIME EXTENSION!
Since you have twice as much time as usual, I'm going to open the duration up to a maximum of around five minutes. Your film doesn't have to be five minutes, it can still be three or less. This five minutes does not include your title time, and can run a few seconds over if need be.


Any questions? Post them here. I'm off to NAB

Nice!

Resolution and file sizes don't matter correct? Sorry for the dumb question...

Oooohhhh... this intrigues me!
Love the theme as well.

I just hope I have time for this...

Mike

Oddly enough I had an inspiration just last night about television in a sort of gloomy artistic piece. I'm almost ready to go then.

Sean

Does this mean that you are superstitious? You were going to announce on Friday the 13th, but you changed it to today!!!! :)

Cluck cluck!

Mike

ohh... television.. hmm.. maybe it could be 5 minutes of me watching television... damn.. this is gonna take some inspiration... Beeeeer? Where are you? Come out wherever you are... ;)

Did someone say beer?

Now that would be a theme!!!


I'm loving the 'television' theme...but...


Who votes for the next theme to be BEER?!!!!!


YES!!!!

Ever seen "Beerfest"? Stupid but funny in a lot of places.

Isn't that the Guy Madden film?

Sean

Hmmmm television..... Now Dylan, how am I suppose to make that fit into the starwars theme???? Hahaha. jk!

This one sure is going to be a toughie (I never knew that was a real word :-P )...
~Gabriel

Yiiik, my talents dosn't even know what a television looks like!!

It's Friday let's have a beer :-)

Funny, thats exactly what my movie will be about :)

Don't forget to send me my royaltycheck! I'll take it in beer please. ;)

Bah, I had the idea long before you posted it :)

Can you set up a television with some bird food in front of it and entice the birds to look they are watching it?

I have a plot for my movie. I just need to work out a script and some lighting issues. I have been telling a story for a few years about something television related. If I can put that story on video, I'll have a shot.

I wonder if you shot the birds and had a monitor in front of the feeder if they would watch themselves eating?

Sean

oooooooh television...i work in News...this should be in-teresting! I'm excited!

I've been needing an excuse to shoot something

(I'm thinking ......................)

too late?
 

is it too late to enter?
just wanna know so i dont start brainstorming for nothing.

That's a good question, Oscar. Dylan is in Las Vegas and might not check the forum for awhile.

Normally, he cuts off entries once the theme is announced; however, last Challenge he allowed late entries, and this time he didn't lock the sign-up thread. On the other hand (don't ya love it?), I think this is the largest number of people we've ever had sign up. So.....it's hard to say!

One last note to add to this nonsense: Dylan doesn't seem like a hard-and-fast-rule kind of guy, so I'd guess he'd tell you to join the fun.

If he doesn't answer your question by Monday, I'll ask him and try to post. Maybe you can just kind of half-brainstorm until then. :)

Lorinda saved you on a technicality. Normally I lock the sign-up thread and close entry, but forgot to this time.

So yes, you can still sign up. I'm going to leave entry totally open this time, just to see what happens.

Well...three days down and the light bulb still hasn't turned on....

Thinking, thinking.......



Bob T. -- Thinking a beer does sound good!

TELEVISION? TELEVISION???? you've got to be kidding me. i'm in bhutan. there is no television! none! the internet is surprisingly accessible. cell phones are oddly ubiquitous, even in the truly remote locations. but only one state-sponsored television broadcast per day, so there's really not much television, and none at all where i am....

better hang me on the wall immediately.

or make a short documentary how life is when there is very little television.. the imagination is the limit!

That's easy. Just base your film on how your character is altered by the fact that they no longer have access to television.

Even worse if they were a TV addict!

;)

Fredrik, beat me to it...

It can be good sometimes to be first but the chicks sure don't like it... ;)

Wow Meryem! That place sounds/looks wonderful (out side of the fact that there is no TV, but I think I could go without)!

Hmm, that will be a tough one. I think Fredrick and Mike both have a good concept for you! :-)

Hopefully you'll be able to bring back some footage to share if you don't make the challenge! :D


I think I am heading to the wall of shame right now....
~Gabriel

So there is your theme.... no television....

Maybe a short doc on what people would want to see on TV where you are. If you can get away with it, what's wrong with television where you are (not recommended in areas with certain governments - don't want anyone getting shot at dawn over a DVC entry)

Sean

When is the submission deadline? We've got a fun story, but have to schedule everyone now :)

Deadline
 

So how does this work: The finished video must be viewable online on Sunday, April 29, by... what, midnight? And do we contact Dylan when we have the video posted or will there be another thread similar to the sign-up thread?

Sorry. Newish here.

Best of luck to everyone.

So far Dylan has decided it's cool to enter anytime during contest (a NAB-special thingy).

You mail Dylan on the hotmail-address that is provided somewhere so that he can review the files first before he make them public.

See http://www.thedvchallenge.com/ for more info.

IMPORTANT!

I'm switching the DV Challenge to gmail, so please email me at

thedvchallenge@gmail.com


Thanks!

Once you have your video finished and online, email me the URL, and I will post them once I've reviewed them all. Midnight, Sunday the 29th is the deadline.