I dont know how far we will get with our limited acting skills. You cant catch everything in editing but we like to tell ourselves that.
Ideas we got plenty of. That does not neccesarily mean they can all be made into RTE quality series. Oh god please help us in this hour of storm. Its very likely that our ship will sink because a ship can have only one captain.
On a more positive note: ‘Hello world! And most importantly shiver me timbers!!!!’
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I’ve been lurking around the Egomotion forums for news and such ( I should really say hello for the sake of politeness ) and someone recently posted this excerpt from the RTE website.
StoryLand invites new and experienced drama production teams to pitch for a truly creative 6-part drama series to be webcast in March 2009.
Pilot first episodes of up to ten new drama series will be commissioned by RTÉ and the audience will decide, by voting
on-line, which six will get to make a second episode.The second episodes will again be voted on by the audience and four series will get to make a 3rd episode and so on until only one series gets to make all 6 episodes.
Each episode needs to be between 3 to 7 minutes long. If commissioned your budget is a maximum of eight thousand euro per ep, meaning you get nearly 50 grand for your series if you make it to the end.
The pilots will be up from March 2009, with the series webcast between then and September 2009.
This is a fantastic opportunity to get your ideas out there. We’re looking for good stories and interesting characters that will have immediate appeal to 20 somethings. We want as many creative ideas as we can handle so get your thinking caps on and get submitting!
Here’s the link http://www.rte.ie/storyland/index.html
This could be awesome. We have at least another month to work out a series idea and write a pilot script as the website suggests, I can imagine that we all have fairly diverse ideas for a mini-series so we’ll definitely have to have a meeting about it, what we could try is each of us would submit a separate idea and see whichever one RTE would commission. The only disadvantage about this method is that you’ll have to shoot 30 second footage to support the submission, but in the unlikely event that one our submissions gets chosen, the individual or the set of individuals behind the creation of that idea would, likewise in previous Gifted Babies productions, take charge of the production while the rest of the crew silently complain that their idea was better 😛
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The bad news, it appears that Kommando, Cork Film Festivals 24 Hour film competition is a no show, there’s no mention of the competition either on the website or in their schedules so if it’s not advertised therefore it doesn’t exist. It’s a pity actually, some of us where really looking forward to having another go and some of us who weren’t but were obligated 😛
Now for the good news, Bad Vibrations did not make it in this years Depict! shortlist 🙂
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1. The story revolves around a mid film reveal of a seemingly friendly cat named Milton…
2. A strict 1pm start. Harsh but we could lose daylight.
3. In the event of someone’s death, it will be Piratehelm.
4. The following words will lead to distractions. “Pancakes”, “tea”, “Cethan” (esp. when combined with a popular phrase), “Ace”, “To”, and “Base” .
5. There are reshoots.
6. There will be groans immediately following mention of reshoots.
7. Random outburst of singing. This been a popular choice,
8: Editing fixes everything
9: Nobody uses a script
10: The film crew display symptoms of ADHD ( that goes for the director as well )
11: Zoooooooooooooooooooooooooom!!!
12: The phrase “don’t worry, we can dub over it” is used frequently
13: You are eating every half hour at someone else’s house
14: When you make Jan grumpy. (This most typically comes at round 11pm, when tiredness and giddiness have settled in the crew’s minds)
15: There is swearing to beat Jesus.
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Every so often, I think of great ideas for films that minutes later reveal themselves to either be terrible, weird or unfilmable. Rather than letting them disappear into the ether, I am committed to writing them down, so that future generations will remember my ponderous plots, senseless scenes and head hurting histories.
No. 2: Clubbed!
In Apartment 21b, the Easterbrook reading circle are hold their weekly meeting to discuss books and drink tea. When a member goes missing in mysterious circumstances, Detective Sam O’ Reilly goes undercover as an avid reader to discover the cause, and learns the book club’s great secret
Key Scenes:
Sam bluffs her way through a discussion concerning Tess of the d’Ubervilles by remembering watching half the movie late one night.
The Ending: Sam finds the entire life of missing person, Mr. Hazel Brook’s body written in book form. Turns out that the book club document Its members’ lives and when they run out of pages, they are killed to give the book an ending. Sam learns this too late…
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RIP Hitachi DZ-MV750E DVD camcorder 2005 – 2008
Not that it's broken, it's just that I'm no longer going to buy Mini-DVDs for it
It’s like that scene from Old Yeller. I’ve never seen the film but I heard about what happens in the end, turns out Bruce Willis’s character was the ghost of Kaiser Sosay. But that has got nothing to do with the topic, despite what Cethan may suggest in the comments section. Anyway, after shooting the last few scenes for the second Milton film on Thursday night, I pretty much used the last blank mini-DVD that I’ve been able to find from a pile of computer accessories I intend on giving away for charity with an attached price tag. I’ve had this Hitachi DZ-MV750E DVD camcorder for 3 years now but it was only since last year that I started using it for making films. I used it the year before to film a Dramat play but that turned out to be a pointless endeavour, as I had too much college work to do & Dramat never bothered chasing after me to get the stuff edited. The play was quite shite. Anyway, my dad bought it for me when he was flying back from Australia in 2005, he picked it up from Singapore Airport for something like €250 so back then it was a pretty good price and as far as I can remember DVD cameras were a lot more popular back then, nowadays people just spend their money on flavoured condoms.
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Every so often, I think of great ideas for films that minutes later reveal themselves to either be terrible, weird or unfilmable. Rather than letting them disappear into the ether, I am committed to writing them down, so that future generations will remember my ponderous plots, senseless scenes and head hurting histories.
No. 1: ‘Loons
Everyone in the world wakes up to discover their heads have been replaced by balloons. There is then a race against time to discover the cause before everyone’s noodle deflates.
Key scene: Upon meeting the villianous Dr. Helium, our hero decapitates him, cuasing his head to float gently into the sky.
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Since it’s been a week since the last post I thought I might as well take it upon myself to add another one for the sake adding more content to the site. So here is the link to the film we made a month prior to Bad Vibrations, called Trippers Through Time. It was written, shot and edited in a space of 48 hours as part of Bangor Film Festivals’ 2880 competition which, in comparison to our last attempt at shooting a film in a short amount of time, was a resounding success not only because we manage to complete it but the fact that it also got shown to an American audience much to our surprise. Apparently, Americans are very to please 😛
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