24 More Hours

[Brandon Rice]

It's crunch time now for some. Good luck to you all. :thumbsup:

[Slice]

:thumbsup:

[Beat Takeshi]

I wonder how many people just bombed and gave up after having a crew and all work hard on the peice.

[Brandon Rice]

I hope not too many people. YOu finished with yours?

[Beat Takeshi]

Yup yup. Its sitting here in my bag on a CD waiting for the upload info.

[Slice]

Man, I can't wait! I love these contests, It like Christmas or something.

[Brandon Rice]

No kidding, it sooooo exciting!

[SilverWolf]

I can't wait to watch the movies

[wcs]

I can't wait to watch the movies

Should we start guessing on which day the polls will open?

If they have to get all the entries before starting, I'm guessing it'll be sunday or monday at the earliest. If they open the voting realtime, it might be as soon as this weekend.

Darn this new technology and our inability to make reasonably wrong guesses.

[P!body]

I'll by a Sci-Fi DVD this time around. I'm expecting some prety good stuff, and then some half completed projects with cool stuff in them. So should be good all around.

[EditPhish]

I'm definitely looking forward to see all the entries... I'd guess this weekend would be the earliest we'd get to start viewing the entries.

[Matt Sconce]

I loved the Zombie DVD but Sci-Fi involves many more of the effects I am interested in learning how to do. I am excited to learn a lot from watching these movies and then buying the DVD!

[Slice]

Only a few hours to go!

[lucidz]

Man oh man I HOPE we get to have the entries up by this weekend. itd be great to veg out and watch sci fi flicks on my tv..

Gonna hook the computer up to the bigscreen for this one.

[P!body]

I forgot all about the possible submitted special features for the DVD. I wonder if anyone was putting together little featurettes or things about the effects in their shorts. Cool.

[Brandon Rice]

I can't wait! I am currently working on the DVD version of our short, finishing up the end credits and stuff.

[Slice]

I think things will move allot smoother than zombie fest, can't wait, can't wait!!!!!!

[Slice]

woops... hit the button twice , I'm so excited!!!!!

[spidey]

still working..

[Slice]

Come on spidey, bring it on in.

[Brandon Rice]

still working..

Better get a move on. You can make it!! :thumbsup:

[Ralph Oshiro]

DAMNIT, I'M OUT! I'm just not going to make it. What I've written and shot simply doesn't qualify for the genre. I wish I could've shot my original script which WAS totally sci-fi. I really, really wanted to enter this contest. Damn, damn, damn!

[Slice]

How far off is it?

[Beat Takeshi]

Throw in a scene with a toy light sabre and call it Sci-fi.

[Slice]

Sci Fi does cover a very wide spectrum.

[BrianV]

Yeah, really all it needs is a reference to technology and how it affects mankind and that is sci-fi. Aliens and spaceships need not be required.

But you're right. A toy lightsabre wouldn't hurt :)

EDIT: Not all scifi movies have to have technological commentary, but I just mean if it doesn't have anything else that is tell-tale scifi, then the most bare bones of scifi's can just have this and technically it qualifies. I don't think WE have technological commentary. Guess y'all will find out :)

[Ralph Oshiro]

How far off is it?Well, I came up with an idea that works dramatically, and I started shooting for it, but there is NO sci-fi element in it whatsoever. Plus I ditched my last available shoot day (today) so that I could perform an unplanned HVX shoot-out test at work. I've been trying all weekend to "inject" a sci-fi element into my short just so it will qualify, but when I cut it together, it just comes out super lame.

I really needed one more weekend day (light traffic to match previous footage) to shoot the much needed pick-ups (really, it's like ONLY three shots) that tie the whole story together, but unfortunately, I didn't come up with this story twist until Monday night. And without those pick-up shots, the story doesn't make ANY sense at all.

[Brandon Rice]

Bummer! I was really looking forward to your short NBCShooter!

[Ralph Oshiro]

Should I just submit the super lame, half-shot version with the super cheesy scifi element anyway?

[Filmjunkie677]

why not?

Infection kicked ass and I wanna see more!!!

[Brandon Rice]

Should I just submit the super lame, half-shot version with the super cheesy scifi element anyway?

YEAH! WHO CARES MAN! IT CAN'T HURT!!! DO IT!:thumbsup: :thumbsup: :thumbsup:

[Ralph Oshiro]

Wow! Thanks, Filmjunkie! I guess I will then. I just HATE not being part of the fun! I gotta try and make it somehow less lame now. I guess this is what the contest is all about. No matter what your excuses (think how good jdanstan's work was--and he had a HUGE excuse!), this is where the rubber really meets the road. When the deadline arrives, no matter what your excuse, you either have the goods or not.

[Brandon Rice]

All right, I'm excited to see it!

[Norm Sanders]

UGH! Still rendering & creating FX at this very last moment, with hopefully a speed render to beat the clock. Got the score in and it ROCKS (GREAT job, Chris Rojas - RMI Studios!), BUT ... we got the final FX in yesterday morning and they blew worse than I could have imagined.

The MAIN FX element the guy created really grew on us (though we're dressing that up some as well), but the rest of it just sucked horribly. He was creating the stuff in Cinema 4D, but it looks like it was made in MS Paint. Just absolute crap. So we're having to do some last minute creations with Particle Illusion 3, and hope it all comps together as well as we're thinking it will.

I cut out of work today to finish this, and have been sitting in the same chair now for about 10 hours straight, with another 4 to go.

[Brandon Rice]

Whoa! Good luck Norm, wish I knew how to do effects so I could help you guys out. Congrats on the score though!!

[Norm Sanders]

Help us out, yeah right. :grin: In hindsight, I'm thinkin' one of you yahoo's either paid our FX guy off, or he was a plant from the start. LOL.

[Brandon Rice]

Lol!

[manglerBMX]

i;ve been in my chair for going on 16 hours now? glad its pretty comfy....

[Ralph Oshiro]

Thanks, Briceman! Thanks to you guys, I got a bit more encouraged and I'm shooting some cut-away stuff right now to piece this crap a little better together! The scifi gag still really sucks, though. Oh well. I'm really excited to see everybody's work!

[Brandon Rice]

Thanks, Briceman! Thanks to you guys, I got a bit more encouraged and I'm shooting some cut-away stuff right now to piece this crap a little better together! The scifi gag still really sucks, though. Oh well. I'm really excited to see everybody's work!

Give it a go bro. :thumbsup:

[Ralph Oshiro]

The cut-aways didn't work. My short sucks.

[wcs]

heh. You get a billion points for entering. Sucking... well, you lose one point for that.