Voting/Viewing, and the WINNERS!

wow ...

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Jarred Land said:
1st place: Jack D. Stanley
2nd place: Snodart
3rd place: Conrad Johnson
4th place: Aram / MsManhattan
5th place: DahopaFilms

best cinematography : Anthem- Nielsen
best edit : TBA
best score: JimmyJib

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Wow! I know that had to be close. It really is an honor even to be mentioned with those films.
Congratulations to everyone one that entered and put themselves out there.

I want to make sure people know how much help I had and that the credit is shared (although I am keeping the crane :) )

There were no less than 12 DVXusers who collaborated in some official capacity or donated goods or services to Bone Hand (that # has to be a record right?). There are many more that warrant thanks ... but here in the forum I'll just hank the people you know and let you know some of the ways they contributed to the film.

so ... thank you and congrats to ...

MSMANHATTAN
Produced two of the top five (RfEyeD and Bone Hand) Her enthusiasm and resourcefulness really brought the piece together and she was responsible for finding the a great kid after I was dumb enough to write a script centered around one.
ARAM BAUMAN
in addition to pulling a top 5 film out of his arse with killer VFX at the last minute, Aram saved our asses by figuring out how to light the roof scene without electrocuting everyone when we lost the light (all of it) on our first day of shooting and then it rained covering the roof in 2 inches of water. We just would have lost that day if he hadn't figured out a brilliant plan of shooting light out of the stairwell and bouncing onto a series of sun reflectors. Also he's largely responsible for the look of Bone Hand's apartment interior. It was one of those very collaborative Head Gaffer and DP collaborations where I described the look of the scene and a few specific effects and then he just went to town lighting it on his own an adding shape and dept. He did way better than I could have done on my own.
TIMUR CIVAN
Shot most of the movie and was there every single shoot for every second that I was. Timur shot the opening rain sequence for example. At the end of that shoot he looked like he had jumped into a swimming pool fully clothed. Timur was tireless and constantly found new ways to contribute and improve what we were doing and was absolutely fantastic to be around 110% of the time. He's talented, tireless, and a good egg. In my previous two films (all shot by me) the camera was much lighter and flew around a lot, but Timur was able to operate in a way that added weight and felt more cinematic.
HERMAN WITKAM
of course provided music that totally helped tell the story and totally rocked. Herman was great to work with. We did three drafts of the score, and I think each had 10 or more pages of notes for him, but he just turned them around and came back implementing everything awesomely. I'm a tough date in the score department and Herman never blinked and I never detected any frustration in our communication. He just took the notes and did the work and got everything back on time.
TEXTURE
did the Audio Sweetening and it made a huge difference. He really knew what he was doing and where I would have just turned the volume up and down on different tracks he skillfully notched out frequencies in the ambient beds / etc. that conflicted with the human voice and was just able to clean up a lot of the location sound. I think he is working with Dahopa on the DVD version of his flick, and he will probably be inundated after this but hit him up for your project - he loves story and filmmaking.
TC
did a great job with the title design and animation. I kept getting the note on other things that my titles were lacking and I had a lot on my plat with this one so I hit him up because I knew he would deliver, and he did. Also he allowed me to use a clip from his Zombie Fest entry THE LIVING'S END (the axe to the head when the little girl's watching TV) thanks man!!!
FLINT MI
Allowed us to shoot on his roof and was just a great gut to have around on set and toss ideas around in the editing room, he also shot some BTS.
ALEX DEPEW
Shot a ton of BTS and was also great to have around especially on the roof shoot.
REZFACTOR (the member formerly known as "N... (something) ... Shooter"
Allowed us to use an awesome and gory clip from his Zombie Fest entry INFECTION
(the guy getting shot in the head on the TV). Thank you sir.
COFFEE
Lent us his Letus35 to use along side mine. Thanks man!

and last but by no means least,
JOHN HUDSON
hooked us up with all of the Bone Hand sunglasses FOR FREE through his wife Flora's
Designer sunglass company Somatic
http://somaticoptics.com/
Thanks John. And thanks for all your input and support from wayback and up through this contest.

BRICEMAN, ENVISION, and ISAAC BRODY didn't work on this film, but help keep me sane on a moment to moment basis (yes, believe it or not this is me relatively sane). Thanks guys.

And of course thanks to JARRED for giving these films a home, allolwing inspiration and knowledge to flourish like a mutant virus in zombie film, and for giving me a hard time (you bastid) :)

if I forgot anyone please forgive me ... it's late and I'm very tired ... please PM me and scream at me and I will update the post :thumbsup:
 
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Congratulations to all the winners. I can't wait to see what you guys come up with for Horror Fest. I know I learned a ton this time around and come October 1st I hope to challenge you guys at the top!

Congrats,
Alex
 
Jarred Land said:
dahopa.. you made a parody when people wanted to laugh.. your DP sucked but your movie made people laugh, so you deserve it. shut up already or im giving your place to briceman.
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Yeah - my DP was marginally better than my last two, but I agree - he still sucked.

Cheers, bud.
 
hell ya! Congrats to all the winners!
(and to the losers so we don't feel left out)

I thought it was a pretty friggin' cool festival and was honored to be a part of it. Looking forward to the next and can't wait to see everyone's 'new take' this next round.

/j
 
What happened to the download links? I'd like to match the winning names with the winning films. It seems that navigating this contest is unnecessarily difficult. Why not keep the download links available for latecomers to the contest, posted in an easily accessible place? Or, if doing that causes bandwidth problems, at least telling us the names of the winning films?

Sorry to rant, but I don't understand why this contest is buried so deeply on dvxuser.com. A banner house ad linking to the films or, at the very least, to the contest results would seem to be much more user-friendly.
 
Shoot, it was 7 minutes after midnight, and just realized I'd not submitted the ballot yet, but the announcements were already made.

Double drat.

EDIT: Will there be a breakdown of how all the films placed/scored, like the last couple of times?
 
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Xrayspecs said:
What happened to the download links? I'd like to match the winning names with the winning films. It seems that navigating this contest is unnecessarily difficult. Why not keep the download links available for latecomers to the contest, posted in an easily accessible place? Or, if doing that causes bandwidth problems, at least telling us the names of the winning films?

Sorry to rant, but I don't understand why this contest is buried so deeply on dvxuser.com. A banner house ad linking to the films or, at the very least, to the contest results would seem to be much more user-friendly.
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I guess this one wasn't as well supported because of the fewer entries.
 
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