TimeFest Official Rules

This isn't a contest for prizes. It's a festival. There may or may not be any prizes. I'm not saying there aren't any, but I am saying that the possibility exists that there aren't any.

Any prizes would be a bonus, and should not be expected as an entitlement or as a given.
 
Prizes will be announced in Tandem with the films going live or in Tandem with the announcement of the winners.

Later,
Jason
 
I don't care about the prizes, I want it to be the 16th today! I wanna watch the movies :) Man, I can't wait! This fest will be a blast, looking forward to all your great work!

Just had to say this :D

PS. Still thanks alot for the info jason :)
 
Yeah I have to say while the prizes in the past have been great, the real prize is getting to watch all of the entries and the fantastic feedback everyone gives each other. I have yet to participate in a fest (soon!) and have learned so much just from following the threads, watching the films, and reading everyone's feedback. I can get clients to fork over money for gear and toys, but this kind of experience is invaluable.
 
I completely agree Jeff. It's the reason I had entered exhibition only in the past.

But one has to wonder if prizes are not the point, why have voting at all?
 
Mark Harris said:
I completely agree Jeff. It's the reason I had entered exhibition only in the past.

But one has to wonder if prizes are not the point, why have voting at all?
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Just because prizes aren't the point, doesn't mean competition isn't.

I know lots of filmmakers that are far more motivated by the "1" than the gear. The gear is awesome. But I think outside of the fun aspect, people are much more motivated by striving to be better each contest and seeing if they can make more and more polished and competitive films and come out on top.

There's voting for the audience award at Sundance and they don't give you an HVX. Your question kind of collapses on itself. There's no voting to prize importance relationship that's necessarily presupposed anywhere in any contest.

You can give prizes away and have no voting, or have it done by a small panel.

You can have voting and have 1st place and have no prizes as many, many, many, festivals do all over the world which people are eager to enter and win.
 
I have other questions:

* All films must be no longer than 6 (six) minutes and 2 seconds (6:02) TOTAL. INCLUDING ANY CREDITS. [the new 2 seconds are for the mandatory acknowledgement of DVXuser]
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So if we have 2 seconds of black reserved for this at the end, does this have to be ONLY the acknowledgement of DVXUser, or can that acknowledgement be included with credits in that 2 seconds?

Also:

No promotion on external web sites is allowed until after the screening has been completed.
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I had to get permission from one company to use an image they own in our film. They asked if they could link to the contest in their blog and let people know their image is being featured in my film. Does this mean they cannot?
 
Jack Daniel Stanley said:
Here you go.

http://dvxuser.com/RED-ONEprize.htm
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That's not cool. Non-descript youtube links are one thing, labeling the link as RED prize...

And I do agree prizes aren't the point of these competitions, but I think any real filmmaker loves the idea of getting better equipment to shoot on as it always makes life easier. Heck, I'm getting a RED for a short in a few months and it's the first time I've ever had people emailing me ASKING to work on it instead of begging people.
 
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Gohanto said:
That's not cool. Non-descript youtube links are one thing, labeling the link as RED prize...
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Always run your cursor over the link before clicking. You will see the url address appear at the bottom left hand corner of your browser.

:happy:

I've been fooled one too many times by these crazy guys! :grin:
 
Mark Harris said:
So if we have 2 seconds of black reserved for this at the end, does this have to be ONLY the acknowledgement of DVXUser, or can that acknowledgement be included with credits in that 2 seconds?
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The film + credits should be 6 minutes or less. After that should be added on 2 seconds containing the DVXuser acknowledgement.

I had to get permission from one company to use an image they own in our film. They asked if they could link to the contest in their blog and let people know their image is being featured in my film. Does this mean they cannot?
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Currently we allow no outside promotion, until voting closes. So just let them know that once the voting closes they can link to the contest, your entry, whatever they want.
 
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