La Grande Summer Film Project is brought to you by Eastern Oregon Film Festival and Crossing the Blues: La Grande Summer Festival. This 48 hour film project is a community driven event to encourage participation in the creation of new media. The event takes place August 13-15, 2010. Films are produced in the Historic Downtown of La Grande, Oregon.
Monday, August 3, 2009
Silently Speaking
We over at Positronic Films have spent the weekend happy that we don't have to worry about sound editing and sad since that is our background. We also spent the weekend trying to find a single American film in the "genre"of silent movie made since Mel Brooks mocked the era back in 1976. I finally discovered where all the silent movies are, and there are many thousands of them that have been made in America. Unfortunately, they have all been produced by MTV and VH1. The other good thing about being assigned a non-genre as a genre is that we can do any actual genre for our film. So the real question then is how to squeeze in between The Big/Collander in this epic battle for king-of-the-bloody-experimental-surprisingly-quiet-hill.
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So does this sound like an acceptance to the "Silent" Challenge? Or do we need to do a filmmakers vote to see if "Silent" should be hacked... and a new genre entered into play?
Teams?
Hey, if we're getting rid of silent, I'd like to throw in my vote for experimental also not being a genre.
I would not be opposed if the experimental and silent teams wanted to trade for something else.
granted they are not - "Genres" but - a challenge! Tell you what - you are only allowed to "trade" genres! HAH!
just kidding...
NEW GENRES:
Positronic Film : "WESTERN"!
The Big Productions: "CRIME & GANGSTER"
These are legitimate "GENRES" - see here.
Good Luck!
I cannot put into words how excited I am!! My enthusiasm has returned! I have to admit, getting experimental was like getting a punch in the stomach.
wieners.
"Gangsters and Westerns are HOT!!!" That's my Paris Hilton director voice.
Make sure that my mystery prop, line and location would have been around between 1865-1900. If you have a hard time coming up with those three things, imagine my joy at being assigned a period piece for a 48 hour contest - twice! I might be whining, but if every other film had to only consist of places, props and costumes that were around 100+ years ago, I guarantee everyone would be whining.
In case you are wondering, I accept this genre, please just don't give me some contemporary line, place and prop that will make zero sense and force me to have to re-write my whole script to accommodate them. It's one thing for a contemporary film to have a hundred-year-old object, but entirely different for a hundred-year-old film to have a contemporary one.
what about "Back to the Future III" it had a Dalorian! There is plenty of room for a modern day Western...no more compromises... where is the fun, adrenaline, and creativity if you get everything perfectly inline.
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