Horrorfest Promotion

Kholi said:
You can. You can even post script segments. Just no footage or stills of the actual movies.
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I thougth we were allowed to post stills? We're just not allowed to post footage, right?
 
Noct said:
I thougth we were allowed to post stills? We're just not allowed to post footage, right?
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I think you can only post BTS stills... but not actual movie stills? Maybe I'm wrong. I'm probably wrong.
 
jaustere said:
Unless something's changed since Monday...
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Hmm. I guess.

In that case, we should be able to do fifteen or twenty second teaser trailers. That's just the same as grabs.

Promotion might hurt a lot of entries. =P This really has become interesting.
 
I figure I'd use it as more to document the"filmmaking process" thread, less promotion, let everyone know what's going on with your film, uh oh ... does this mean briceman can't start a "(Insert Month) Status report thread" on 12:00:01 of the first of each month?
 
Kholi said:
Hmm. I guess.

In that case, we should be able to do fifteen or twenty second teaser trailers. That's just the same as grabs.

Promotion might hurt a lot of entries. =P This really has become interesting.
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You could post a bunch of grabs in succession and that would be a teaser clip. :) j/k

What are some examples of how promotion could hurt the entries? Maybe we could make a list of pitfalls to avoid.
 
A bad trailer or a bad looking still could definitely make someone go "I need to steer clear of that one."

=P Just like a bad trailer for any movie.

Even a bad poster or one sheet.

Also, giving away too much too early, you might influence someone and they'd end up running with a tad bit of your idea... possibly making it better. Not saying someone would steal, but there are alot of projects that end up being similar. It's all down to execution... but still.

I definitely don't want to be influenced by anyone's ideas. I'm going to try to steer clear of the threads unless people are allowed to post short teaser trailers.


Noct said:
You could post a bunch of grabs in succession and that would be a teaser clip. :) j/k

What are some examples of how promotion could hurt the entries? Maybe we could make a list of pitfalls to avoid.
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yeah, I gotcha. I agree. You made some good points. Ya know what's weird? In these fests certain trends take place even when there's no information. It seemed like there were a lot of Fedoras in HeroFest. In SciFest there were themes of ironic robotic love ala Macgregor, Hiro, and MojoTrancer. A few entries had people killing themselves in scifest ala pastywhiteboy, and slice. I guess that's all genre dependent, but still some collective nuance carried over into them all that freaked me out.
 
So Is this going to be only for DVX100 camera films?
I have an HVX and Im shooting a horror film soon, Can I enter?
 
i seperated the individual film threads to the top of the main horrorfest link, so click on that to post your individiual films.
 
Great ! Should be just in time for my new Horror/Thriller feature project I'm shooting with a new Panasonic Anamorphic 16:9 lens for true widescreen film like look. I'm very intersted to see how this is going to turn out.

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If anyone has used this lens I would greatly appreciate inputs, especially if you are from the Tampa Bay area.
 
I didn't have the pleasure of being involved with any previous fests here. Could someone point me to some info as to what prizes, if any, there are and how winners are selected? Thankee!
 
Jarred likes to surprise us with the prizes!

They were known well before sci-fest, but for herofest, they're weren't known until after the submission deadline (well, except for part of the 1st place prize). Jarred says that these will be "big" and we should be "excited" about the 1st place prize.

As for how they are determined, whoever has 100 posts can vote for the films in different categories. Some special awards are determined by the mods.
 
This is my first time submitting to a fest on this site? What are the details surrounding who retains distribution rights for films submitted to the contest?


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