there should be budget and resorce restrictions to.......so that everyone is working with roughly the same stuff......what can you make in 2 days with $100, a camera and computer

It would make more sense to me if you all used the [same] script....


Have fun!

where would the creativity be in that? or the fun for that matter......if the script sucks everyones movies will suck......im more down for like basic concept or plot etc.

The creativity is in the "directing".... The fun is seeing what comes "creativity" from the same script (it would let your "directing skills" do the talking since the material for everyone is equal, it's the same). Pick a guy to write the script who you th ink is good. It would be (in my opinion) the best way to see how others, as well as yourself, would approach a basic concept. Everyone would have a unique way of wanting to do it. It'd be a great learning experience, I believe. "Oh look what he/she did wit h that scene... I didn't think of doing it that way, that's pretty damn cool!" And so on...

Seems more scientific that way. Otherwise it's just a bunch of short films with a vague connection.


Just a thought... You don't have to try it.


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Seems more scientific that way. Otherwise it's just a bunch of short films with a vague connection.

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that makes sense. Same script. This way everyone can see how other people handled the shots and scenes.

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"They look like psychos? Is that what they look like? They were Vampires. Psychos do not EXPLODE when sunlight hits them. I don't give a f*** how crazy they are!" - George Clooney in 'From Dusk Till Dawn'

This concept can go quite far. Maybe someone should give out a suggestion or note to the adminastrators.

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Does anybody got any script ideas? I mean the particular filmmmakers participating in this would all have to agree on what genre the film is gonna be....i.e romance, crime, thriller, drama, ect.

TACO WAGON PRODUCTIONS©

"They look like psychos? Is that what they look like? They were Vampires. Psychos do not EXPLODE when sunlight hits them. I don't give a f*** how crazy they are!" - George Clooney in 'From Dusk Till Dawn'

I have hundreds of ideas, mostly character pieces, romances, and intertwining dramas or comedies.

To go even further there could be a script competeition(although I doubt that it would go that far), and the winner's cript could be chosen, and along side the script compititions could be the nominations for the filmmaker's.

There are so many possibilites.

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I think there should only be an idea for a film, as previously stated, rather than an already made script, because every filmmaker has different beliefs, personal philosophies, etc. So, if you got a script that totally went against what you believe, it would be pretty damn hard to go make it.
The prompt should be something like, make a film about first love, or coming to terms with death, etc. (I know those are chessy but they're just off the top of my head). Then each Filmmaking team would have a certain amount of time to write and shoot. The films would then be judged on technical skills, quality of story & plot, direction, editing, all that.

That's a good point...where I got this idea is from this guy named Evan Mather, check out his website Here, "...filmmakers Evan Mather and Jason Wishnow recently travelled to Joshua Tree National Park - where it was 106 degrees in the shade - to film a couplet of faux tequila commercials. Using the same raw footage, each retreated to their individual coasts and created a 30-second spot promoting that fine Mexican drink."

So anyway he and three other guys would go out and shoot a bunch of sh** for a fake commercial about Tequila...there was like 3 guys...and then each of the guys would take the footage and edit it...then after they were all done they would show eachother...all the same footage but all edited differently in different styles. Check it out.

As far as this idea...I think if the films would be compared to see who did the best job their would have to be a master "script" By script I don't mean a "final" draft that MUST be on film...what I mean is it is just the basic layout of the film. OTherwise, like someone said, I'd be a bunch of films with vague refrences to eachother...I.E: The assignment is to make a film about suicide.

Your gonna get a lot of random sh** outta that plot.

The plot should be laid out but then the director or whatever should be allowed to write in his own dialogue, characters, settings, and lenghth of film. Ya know what I'm saying? This way the plot is all the same and they can be compared but eachone has its own shades of style from the filmmaker.

TACO WAGON PRODUCTIONS©

"They look like psychos? Is that what they look like? They were Vampires. Psychos do not EXPLODE when sunlight hits them. I don't give a f*** how crazy they are!" - George Clooney in 'From Dusk Till Dawn'