A Poll of things to be used in your film

A Poll of things to be used in your film

  • Guns

    Votes: 21 51.2%

  • Guys with guns

    Votes: 17 41.5%

  • Chicks with guns

    Votes: 8 19.5%

  • Car chase

    Votes: 5 12.2%

  • Computer

    Votes: 13 31.7%

  • Lead is female

    Votes: 15 36.6%

  • Lead is male

    Votes: 26 63.4%

  • Cell phones

    Votes: 16 39.0%

  • Explosions

    Votes: 7 17.1%
  • Total voters
    41
Wild Imagination Films

Wild Imagination Films

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Curiosity got me thinking about what "standard" spy film stuff will be getting used. Not trying to get any information from anyone, more of a broad stroke of what we'll be seeing.

I think it would be really interesting to see an entry in which none of the listed items are used.
Discussion?
Debate?
-Will
 
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I actually think it would be totally fascinating to see a Fest in which the rule was "No guns". Might lead to seeing some new and interesting things from people. That said, SpyFest is probably not the time for that rule. :)

As for doing a movie with NONE of those things, well, it'd be hard. Especially since you have "Lead is a male" and "Lead is a female" up there. It would be an interesting short...
 
I started thinking seriously about the question of none of the 9 items on the list being in the film. I think it can be done. I may do a short with these restrictions.
 
dougspice said:
I actually think it would be totally fascinating to see a Fest in which the rule was "No guns". Might lead to seeing some new and interesting things from people. That said, SpyFest is probably not the time for that rule. :)
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I had a film production class in college where the professor said that if any guns were in the film, you would automatically receive an F grade for the project. I believe that it had to do with previous student productions running into problems with the police when shooting outdoor locations, even when they notified the police that they would be shooting and using prop guns. But I agree that guns are often too heavily leaned upon as a plot tool.

However, as you say, SpyFest really isn't the time to institute such a rule. :violent5:
 
Wild Imagination Films said:
I started thinking seriously about the question of none of the 9 items on the list being in the film. I think it can be done. I may do a short with these restrictions.
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Good idea, although its going to be hard to avoid either 6 or 7. Unless its multi-character based thing so you can claim "i have no clear protagonist".... otherwise my planned entry has none of the other elements, at the moment
 
nimbleal said:
Good idea, although its going to be hard to avoid either 6 or 7. Unless its multi-character based thing so you can claim "i have no clear protagonist"....
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I think it could be done, such as if the main character was a car or a telephone that came to life.
 
true. that would be interesting... especially if it didn't go into the realms of fantasy. Like a place or a tree or something being the emotional and metaphorical epicenter of the story. The great thai film "Last Life in the Universe" has a house as an important character. You could say 2001 had a computer as the lead.
 
johnlabonney said:
I had a film production class in college where the professor said that if any guns were in the film, you would automatically receive an F grade for the project. I believe that it had to do with previous student productions running into problems with the police when shooting outdoor locations, even when they notified the police that they would be shooting and using prop guns. But I agree that guns are often too heavily leaned upon as a plot tool.
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Right, we had the same rule. And it was for safety reasons. You could get around it if you put in enough effort or took the risk of being failed (which I did, on a couple occasions). On the one hand it made for more interesting movies overall, and on the second hand it helped fewer people get in serious trouble with the law. But a school has certain legal and PR culpability that a message board doesn't.
 
Christine, Jaws, ET, Watership Down, Alien, Predator, Orka. Leads were not even human.
Sci-Fi or Fantasy would lend itself more readily to the non-gender role. This could be either really interesting or very trite.
Guns are a tridky subject. An interesting note on the subject. What do you think would happen if guns had to be really silly looking or pink? Do you think people would still accept them? Isn't it odd how only assault rifles were banned when they are less accurate than a dear rifle? It was actually the assault style weapons banned by the bill. I think it's not a very smart idea to say all "toy" guns have to have a blaze orange tip. I could paint the tip of my TEC 9mm blaze orange and everyone would think it was a toy. Think of the damage this could do. But this is for another time and place. Only related to this thread because most of us will use guns in our short film. For this reason, we will notify law enforcement, wear reflective film crew vests, etc.
I am going to write and film a short "Spyfest" entry in which none of the 9 elements are used.
I hope everyone will enjoy it.
-Will
 
Wow, yeah, a whole lotta chicks with guns. I like chicks and guns as much as the next guy, but I hope there's some twists on these films!
 
This is somewhat how I thought it would play out, but I didn't really expect the high percentage of female leads.
But hey, I'm not complaining, I dig chicks with guns.
 
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i am specifically NOT using guns .. my killing will be done much more brutally .. guns no longer seem to have that "GASP!" effect :)
have fun!
 
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