La Grande Summer Film Project: Production Begins Tonight!

Tonight, Friday the 13th in La Grande, Oregon marks the kick-off for production on the La Grande Summer Film Project as part of
Eastern Oregon Film Festival and Crossing the Blues: La Grande Summer Festival.

Join in the project by attending a kick-off social event tonight at 8:00pm at White House Coffee. We have received 9 team entries and hope to add one more at tonight event. The teams will utilize additional participants who attend the event as well as feature local business locations in there 48hour production period. Additionally information on October’s 2nd Annual Eastern Oregon Film Festival and offer opportunities to support the growth and success of the event.

Teams:

There a great line-up of local and regional filmmakers participating this year along with some new faces, excited youth, and more. Filmmaker teams from previous year include Callandar Films, Surbulation Station, and The Big Productions, along with many new teams. (view last year’s films by the teams mentioned)

Locations:

Special thanks to all of our sponsoring locations for this year’s La Grande Summer Film Project. 2010’s locations are Bella Main Street Market, Benchwarmers Pub & Grill, Eastern Oregon University, The Maridell Center, Serendipity, Bodywork,Sunflower Books, Marie Josephine, and The La Grande Community Garden.

Watch For:

With filmmaking commencing at 9:00pm this even keep an eye out on the La Grande Summer Film Project Production Blog, The Eastern Oregon Film Festival Facebook Page, and Twitter to catch a few updates of how it is going for the teams.

Screening:

Plan to attend Crossing the Blues on Friday and Saturday, August 20 & 21 to view the completed project. The film will be screened OUTSIDE on Depot Street by Mt. Emily Ale House around 10:00pm. Befroe the screening catch live music by MarchFourth Marching Band, and Wasteland Kings. There will be a beer garden available and other potential vendors and entertainment. The project will run on a loop Saturday 21st upstairs at the Ale House as well.

The project serves a number a great purposes and is accessible by all. Please plan to participate by either making, viewing, and supporting the efforts of Eastern Oregon Film Festival and our local filmmaking community.

La Grande Life Morning Drip Features Film Project

Mike Surber, filmmaker and participant, put together this weeks Morning Drip for www.lagrandelife.com featuring fellow filmmaker Brian Wallis and discussing the fun from last years event and promoting this years event. Check out the video here: http://lagrandelife.com/2010/08/the-morning-drip-37-two-dudes-shooting-each-other/

The Genre's in the Mix

Oh the list! Here is the compiled list of genre's that we will lotto off to the teams. This list was provided by Chuck Peters at Valley Video Services and uses wiki definition links for a little more information. Which one do you want? Which one will you get!

Comedy: A genre of film in which the main emphasis is on humor. Also, films in this style typically have a happy ending (the black comedy being an exception).

Musical: A film genre in which several songs sung by the characters are interwoven into the narrative.

Western: Western films commonly feature as their protagonists stock characters such as cowboys, gunslingers, and bounty hunters, often depicted as semi-nomadic wanderers who wear Stetson hats, bandannas, spurs, and buckskins, use revolvers or rifles as everyday tools of survival, and ride between dusty towns and cattle ranches on faithful steed: (Modern Western is up for interpretation)

Action: A film genre where in the story is largely told through physical action as opposed to dialogue. The action typically involves individual efforts on the part of the hero.

Science Fiction: A film genre that uses science fiction: speculative, science-based depictions of phenomena that are not necessarily accepted by mainstream science, such as extraterrestrial life forms, alien worlds, ESP, and time travel, often along with futuristic elements such as spacecraft,robots, or other technologies.

Fantasy: Are films with fantastic themes, usually involving magic, supernatural events, make-believe creatures, or exotic fantasy worlds.

Thriller: A genre of literature, film and television that uses suspense, tension and excitement as the main elements.

Mystery: A sub-genre of the more general category of crime film. It focuses on the efforts of the detective, private investigator or amateur sleuth to solve the mysterious circumstances of a crime by means of clues, investigation, and clever deduction.

Crime & Gangster/Film Noir: A genre that involves various aspects crime and the criminal justice system. Stylistically, it can fall under many different genres, most commonly drama film, thriller film, mystery film, action film , caper film and film noir. Films focused on the Mafia are a typical example of crime films.

Horror: Are unsettling movies that strive to elicit the emotions of fear, disgust, panic, alarm, shock and horror from viewers through the means ofmacabre and the supernatural, thus frequently overlapping with the fantasy and science fiction genres. Horrors also frequently overlap with thethriller genre.

Doc-Mock-umentary: Documentary film is a broad category of moving pictures intended to document some aspect of reality. A "documentary film" was originally a movie shot on film stock—the only medium available—but now includes video and digital productions that can be either direct-to-video or made for a television programme. Mockumentary (also known as mock documentary) is a genre of film and television in which fictitious events are presented in documentary format

Thriller: A genre of literature, film and television that uses suspense, tension and excitement as the main elements.

Countdown to Production

Friday night marks the kick-off event for 2010's La Grande Summer Film Project. Come to White House Coffee at 8:00pm on Friday August 13th to socialize and meet filmmaking teams and discuss resources. 9:00pm will mark the delivery of specific criteria for the 48 hours films. Bring friends and invite all of those who may be interested in participating in the project.

Locations
We have a great handful of sponsoring locations. Teams will be required to feature one of these locations in their shoot. Sponsors include BELLA, Eastern Oregon University, Benchwarmers Bar & Grill, Serendipity, Meridell Center, and Body Work. We are still looking for a few more before kick-off. The locations will be raffled off to the teams. For some photos of the location visit www.lagrandefilm.com/locations.html.

Genres
The teams will be given a random genre to work with. This potential list will be supplied by Chuck Peters at Valley Video Services. We will aim to post the possible genre list this week before the event.

Eastern Oregon FIlm Festival
Additionally we will be providing some information on Eastern Oregon Film Festival and will be doing some efforts to raise some money through sponsorship, donations, festival passes, raffles, etc. Bring your excitement and support for this 3 day event in October.

This should be a great time - see you there.