Next fest is: Twilightfest!!

The only rule is, to talk Rod Serling into showing up somewhere in your film.

And that would be mega Twilightish cause he died in 1975.

But hey, if it would be easy everyone could do it.

Frank
 
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Looks interesting, I am going to be making a few calls on monday.

Needed a writer and need a maya generalist. :)
 
The announcement last night was just to throw it out there, official details will be posted including restrictions, requirements and time limits, etc...

Be patient, I'm still in LA for TimeFest, don't jump ahead of me now!

PS: If you want a script, send me a PM!
 
Just started individual film thread. Posted behind the scene pics and movie poster. Wrapped up shooting, almost done with final sound and color grade. Waiting for upload instructions. Prizes?
 
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Wait...So every film in this fest has to incorporate vampires and romance?
 
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Just started individual film thread. Posted behind the scene pics and movie poster. Wrapped up shooting, almost done with final sound and color grade. Waiting for upload instructions. Prizes?
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looks like we're in the same boat. i wonder what the next fest after twilight fest will be?
 
i've got a few ideas banging around in the old noggin for TwilightFest. Waiting for the official rules before I write anything out though.
 
This is not official rules here, but I can tell you one thing:

We don't really want to end up seeing 65 films with a twist at the end. Twist films are pretty common in the short format, and one may feel obligated to make a twist film with something like a twilight fest. But, I think the most creative of you will find another way to incorporate the theme fully. And, we'll hopefully spell things out for you in a way that you don't feel limited in that you must make a twist film or something like that.

The general ideas behind twilight fest, are:

Yes, kind of an homage to those old shows.

And, the idea that something isn't quite right here.

We'll get the rules posted real soon, but folks are still recovering, traveling back home, getting caught up on work, etc, etc.

Later,
Jason
 
Jason Ramsey said:
This is not official rules here, but I can tell you one thing:

We don't really want to end up seeing 65 films with a twist at the end. Twist films are pretty common in the short format, and one may feel obligated to make a twist film with something like a twilight fest. But, I think the most creative of you will find another way to incorporate the theme fully. And, we'll hopefully spell things out for you in a way that you don't feel limited in that you must make a twist film or something like that.

The general ideas behind twilight fest, are:

Yes, kind of an homage to those old shows.

And, the idea that something isn't quite right here.

We'll get the rules posted real soon, but folks are still recovering, traveling back home, getting caught up on work, etc, etc.

Later,
Jason
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Sweet. Thanks Jason. I don't plan on doing anything with a twist, so rest easy :thumbsup:
 
it's ok. I'm sure there will be some great films with twists as there often are in teh fests. I just don't want folks to feel obligated to do a twist film by the chosen fest.

Later,
Jason
 
Okay, I'm confused. Twilight Zone was all about the twist endings, wasn't it? I'm not sure how you can do a 'something's not right' film without revealing at the end why it wasn't right -- and that pretty much requires a twist ending, doesn't it? Am I not understanding something?
 
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Okay, I'm confused. Twilight Zone was all about the twist endings, wasn't it? I'm not sure how you can do a 'something's not right' film without revealing at the end why it wasn't right -- and that pretty much requires a twist ending, doesn't it? Am I not understanding something?
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That's not necessarily correct. You can have a film that showcases something that "isn't right" and is a bit eerie/supernatural without having to force a twist ending.

For example, here is the opening narration of the 1 January 1961 episode of The Twilight Zone:

His name is Arch Hammer, he's 36 years old. He's been a salesman, a dispatcher, a truck driver, a con man, a bookie, and a part-time bartender. This is a cheap man, a nickel-and-dime man, with a cheapness that goes past the suit and the shirt; a cheapness of mind, a cheapness of taste, a tawdry little shine on the seat of his conscience, and a dark-room squint at a world whose sunlight has never gotten through to him. But Mr. Hammer has a talent, discovered at a very early age. This much he does have. He can make his face change. He can twitch a muscle, move a jaw, concentrate on the cast of his eyes, and he can change his face. He can change it into anything he wants. Mr. Archie Hammer, jack-of-all-trades, has just checked in at three-eighty a night, with two bags, some newspaper clippings, a most odd talent, and a master plan to destroy some lives.
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Maybe for those of you who are having trouble deciding what to do you can search YouTube for old episodes. You obviously can't take the exact idea but you will get the point of the theme. But please don't sue me if you do this, write a script, film the short and then find out the rules require somethig different than what you did. I am not a mod, I am just trying to help.

Best of luck all,
 
Okay, that gives you the beginning of a story, but it's not a story. The story is about what he does with this strange ability -- and, no doubt, how it backfires on him in the end. And that backfire is the 'twist ending'.
 
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