I wonder what the next fest will be?

I would love to do an Action Fest, simply because I do martial arts and I'd love to try to choreograph and film a cool fight scene :) I haven't been able to come up with a good 'action movie' story though...I don't wanna have a bunch of action with no plot.

Comedy Fest would definitely be fun. My SpyFest entry was comedic...and of course it was fun to shoot because we were all too busy laughing.

If it goes either way...we could do an Action/Comedy :-)
 
mikkowilson said:
Why not? It works for Hollywood.

- Mikko
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Um...it's a personal choice I guess ;-)

Every action short I tried to write came off as a cliche spy/cop flick...I offended myself reading my own crap.

But maybe inspiration will strike if there's a fest at stake!
 
Jaime V said:
Every action short I tried to write came off as a cliche spy/cop flick...I offended myself reading my own crap.
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That made me LOL pretty hard.

But, you guys know it seems to be that the Fests are much more "open" now. A theme that can be wrapped up in different Genres looks like it works out well.

Darkness could've been comedy, action, etc. It's what you made of it. Good trend to continue.
 
I strongly agree.

Perhaps a "Do as you please" Fest would be a logical progression. Actually, it could turn out to be the best.
 
New Years Fest. Make it open genre. Can be about anything you want as long as it takes place on New Years Eve or New Years Day and there must be something to show it's New Years.

Also, I vote to get rid of the time limit. I think a lot of people are being limited on what they can do artistically because they can't get everything in that they want. If it's too long and that makes it boring or just not good, then they just won't win the contest. If server space is an issue, you can put a limit to the file size so the longer films just need to have a smaller frame size. I'm saying this mainly because we recently made a short that we're extremely happy with and turned out fantastic (feedback has been overwhelming) that we would have entered in this fest, but it was too long. Our original intention was to make it for All Hallows Fest, but the 5 minute limit was just too short for the film to play out properly. The 5 minute version does work, but I'd rather not compromise. Can I make a 5 minute short? Sure, if I want to. But my stories are more detailed and compelling than what can fit in under 5 minutes. I'm sure others would probably agree at least to some extent. Please remove the time limit, or at least make it more reasonable (like 10 or 15 minutes). Try it at least once and I'm sure we'll get some really good films. And you'll still get shorter films I'm sure.
 
The time limit isn't just a server space issue - it's also a voting issue.
With 35 or so entries we're already talking about everyone finding the time to download and watch nearly 3 hours of material, and that's with a 5 minute limit.

That could easily double, if not more, if the time limit were lifted.
I support these fest wholeheartedly, but honestly it would be hard for me to find 6 hours to spend watching them all in order to be able to vote.

I could see maybe increasing the limit a little bit - but taking it away completely would be a bad idea, in my opinion.
 
Luis Caffesse said:
The time limit isn't just a server space issue - it's also a voting issue.
With 35 or so entries we're already talking about everyone finding the time to download and watch nearly 3 hours of material, and that's with a 5 minute limit.

That could easily double, if not more, if the time limit were lifted.
I support these fest wholeheartedly, but honestly it would be hard for me to find 6 hours to spend watching them all in order to be able to vote.

I could see maybe increasing the limit a little bit - but taking it away completely would be a bad idea, in my opinion.
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I could understand the limit due to voting. I still think the limit should be increased. The voting time period could also be increased, based on the number of entries and the total length of time of all the entries. If it takes 6 hours to watch them all, why not give 3 weeks to vote? Or even more than that?
 
I probably won't be able to compete next fest, but an action-fest would be fun to watch... or a comedyfest.
 
flmmkr said:
I could understand the limit due to voting. I still think the limit should be increased. The voting time period could also be increased, based on the number of entries and the total length of time of all the entries. If it takes 6 hours to watch them all, why not give 3 weeks to vote? Or even more than that?
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If I'm not mistaken I think the powers that be are pretty happy with the five minute limit...

I for one would not be as interested in watching upwards of 30 short films that ranged as long as 10 or 15 minutes. The caliber here is definitely improving, but the five minute restriction is a difficult one to master and leaves plenty of room for improvement in storytelling and technical ability.

If you can't tell a story in five minutes, you don't deserve fifteen. In an open contest of widely varying skill levels, I'd much rather sit through five minutes of an average story than fifteen. If the latter I'd probably be doing a lot of fast-forwarding if not turning off altogether.

Five minutes is nearly always watchable, regardless of quality, and allows for the best chance that people will watch the whole thing and give critiques.
 
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