Whilst most of my learned cyber-buds were soberly sanctifying their scriberly souls (ahem) at SWF, I decided to throw down the gauntlet and set myself a little challenge. Or perhaps that should be: I threw a great, heaving, metal gauntlet at myself and it hit me in this guise:
Swarovski has teamed up with Tank to search the creative community for the freshest film directors around. The Three Graces competition, which launches today, is an open call to filmmakers and creatives working with the moving image to develop a short film to accompany one of three exclusive tracks we’ve commissioned for the project. Submissions will interpret the myth of the Three Graces, who symbolise the qualities of radiance, joy and abundance.
After reading about the competition in Saturday's (28th June) Shooting People Filmmakers' Bulletin, I spent the best part of yesterday storyboarding, setting up test shots, checking light levels, filming, chucking together a rough edit and thoroughly enjoying every single darn second of it. After very little sleep (editing becomes strangely obsessive, y'know), I woke up exhausted but buzzing and ready to get going on my plans for a second day of filming drop-ins and cutaways which will complete the shoot.
After editing and perfecting (ha!) the current material, this will be Entry Number One. Whether I have the time to devise/shoot/edit Entry Number Two, Three and so on is another situation entirely but I do have lots of ideas kicking around - what happens to those remains to be seen; however, if I don't do something with at least one of them, that gauntlet is going to jump up and choke me. Fingers crossed it doesn't!
For all you out there who wish to have a punt, full details are here.
Good Luck & leave a comment if you are entering!
Yo good on you! sounds great fun!
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