Moby-Dick Film Competition
Monday, December 5th, 2011
Neighbor Patrick Shea, who recently finished recording a song for each chapter of the Herman Melville classic Moby-Dick his website Call Me Ishmael, has a residency at Pianos for the month of March. The last night of the residency (Thursday, March 29) will be Film Night–they’ll show films about Moby-Dick–made by you!–from 7:00-8:00 before the music starts at 8:15.
Details from Patrick:
This is an open call to anyone who would like to make a film about Moby-Dick. Your film can be related to Call Me Ishmael songs (i.e.; a music video or a filmic representation of a song) or not–feel free to do whatever you want, as long as it’s about Moby-Dick.
Rules:
1) Your film must be about Moby-Dick in some way.
2) Your film must be 1 minute or less.
3) Your film must have a budget of $100 or less.
4) Submissions are due by February 15.
We will screen as many of the best entries as we can in an hour, and the audience will vote on a winner.
That’s not as complicated as it sounds! We’re looking forward to watching what you make. We’re viewing entries on a rolling schedule; in other words, we’ll watch them as soon as we get them. Once all the submissions are in, we’ll let you know if you made the final screening.
Prizes:
1st place — 1/2 of 1/3 (or 1/6) of donations we take at the door
2nd place — 1/4 of 1/3 (or 1/12) of donations we take at the door
3rd place — 1/4 of 1/3 (or 1/12) of donations we take at the door
To submit your work:
1) Export your film. Codec, H.264; Data Rate, 5000 kbps; Frame Size, 720×480. Audio Codec, AAC; Data Rate, 256 kbps; Sample Rate, 44.1 kHz.
2) Compress (.zip) a folder containing your film (use your email address as the name of your file), as well as an .rtf or .pdf containing your name and contact info, the name of your film, a one sentence description of the film for the program (don’t Jack London this sentence, please), and a one sentence description of you for the program (ditto on no long sentence constructions).
3) Either use SendSpace or a similar download option, and email a link for download to dotheleeshore@gmail.com.
4) All submissions are due by February 15.
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