Official Hero-Fest Rules

That's fantastic Jarred, where will the screening be?

I'll be happy to host a post-screening bash at my place if enough folks are interested.
 
I'm all in for it.

Great update, Jarred.

I won't be skimping on the five minute length, probably. But I guess it's good to know there's an extra minute now. =P

PARTY AT SAM'S HOUSE!
 
Screening ? PArty ?

I may have to make my first ever trip to LA LA land :thumbsup:

So ... cool .... shoot for five minutes but five and change is OK ... awesome.
 
hella ya! I'm up for the screening party. Just let me know when and where and how much booze to bring. :)

/j
 
yeah the screening will be at a nice little post place I made friends with here in burbank.. the afterparty sounds great too. thanks guys. And Jack.. Ill make you a deal. If you win the Herofest this time around, I will personally buy your plane ticket to come to LA.. you gotta get out here.

Actually.. maybe that will be my first dedicated prize.. Plane fare for the winner to come to the screening party. Sounds good to me.
 
room and board is your own call.. The film fest is free remember so there is no budget besides my back pocked. its hot here though in LA in june so the park benches are pretty nice :)
 
man... I've got a friggin' palace up here in Woodland Hills (till late July).. if you guys are clean and civilized.. I wouldn't mind hosting you for a few days during the screening. after that though.. I'd have to give you the boot.

so ya, if you are like most filmmakers and your lifestyle matches your budget, I could probably help out.

/justin
 
That first prize sounds pretty good. I second MikeZas question about what will be screened: Everything, or just top 10 or 20? This is getting interesting...
 
well if all the films were screened it would be a 6 or 7 hour screening ... so probably not all films unless they are gonna break it up over a couple of days ... which I don't think they are.

My guess would be the higher ranked films (20 films would be something like 90 minutes) filled out with whoever is actually there.

But that's just a guess.
 
Edgen said:
man... I've got a friggin' palace up here in Woodland Hills (till late July).. if you guys are clean and civilized.. I wouldn't mind hosting you for a few days during the screening. after that though.. I'd have to give you the boot.

so ya, if you are like most filmmakers and your lifestyle matches your budget, I could probably help out.
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rock on

If my lifestyle matched my budget I'd be in a cardboard box. :grin:
 
we will probally screen the first 15 or so.. i mean at 5 minutes each thats a good 90 minutes... dont want to make people sit there forever.
 
Just some insight for everyone that's seen Jarred's extra grace minute (now extended up to 6 minutes if you can't hit the 5 minute mark) ... remember that this festival is judged by the peers, so people may be more favorable with a film that was able to do well within 5 minutes than a film that ate up nearly that whole extra minute.

In otherwords, I'd be afraid about taking that extra minute for granted only to have other film makers not score me as high because I didn't nail the original 5 minutes ... not that they'd for sure do it, but it's a concern of mine ... enough so that I'll do everything in my power to hit the five minute mark anyway.

For FX, Cinematography, sound, etc. the extra minute won't matter ... it's just if the story can still make sense in 5 minutes or not.

Screening in HD, huh? So I'll want to blow up a HD version of this thing for sure then. :)
 
I tend to agree with you Norm ... people can gets snarfy if they feel another filmmaker has an unfair advantage ... but in this instance, the rules thread is a resource available to everyone and it has been announced almost 4 weeks before the deadline that films may run a little longer.

Having said that I am going to do everything in my power to come in at 5 minutes, save rushing the movie ...

Beyond a story making sense in the given time frame, there is an approriate pacing for each scene and the film as a whole. I felt I rushed some scenes in ODD Squad and it hurt the film in the areas of perfromance and general/emotional impact ... so while I'm going to TRY to get it in at 5 , I'm going to take the time if it's needed to land acting beats and give approraiate weight moment to moment in the story.
 
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Jarred Land said:
we will probally screen the first 15 or so.. i mean at 5 minutes each thats a good 90 minutes... dont want to make people sit there forever.
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Since most of us successfully sat through the entire King Kong flick recently...would it be possible to allow these "15 or so" entrants to show their "extended" version? I'm sure we could last 2 hours :)

Also, didn't you put up a poster for this a while back? I can't find it now.
 
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