VOTE for Wheatgrinders March IT Challenge

Vote for the Challenge you love best

  • Wonder Pets

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • MACRO WORLD

    Votes: 2 12.5%

  • As The Kitchen Turns

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Night Shoot

    Votes: 7 43.8%

  • Night life exposed

    Votes: 2 12.5%

  • Your favourite Object

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • 3 Long Takes

    Votes: 3 18.8%

  • Cityscape

    Votes: 2 12.5%
  • Total voters
    16
  • Poll closed .
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wheatgrinder

VOTE for Wheatgrinders March IT Challenge
Announcing Wheatgrinders Monthly IT Challenge For March 2011

The Challenge area for March is Cinematography

here are the rules\timeline in review..

Here is the time line in review:

1. "Challenge Area" Announced:
On the FIRST Monday in MARCH Ill tell everyone what the "Challenge Area" will be (Cinematography) DONE
2. Suggestion Box Open: DONE
eveyone wants to get started so the were already done with this bit..
3. Suggestion Box Closed: DONE
Today I gather up all the ideas that meet my strict yet completely arbitrary criteria and I set up a poll
4. Vote:
Voting until Friday morning'ish.
5. Challenge Details Announced:
On the the first Friday in March the challenge is announced.
6. Make the movies
duh
7. Upload the movies
Everyone, and I mean everyone, even if you didn't vote, or are afraid of clowns, has until 11:59 PM on the Sunday before the the first Monday in April to upload



Thats it, everything else is left to your interpretation.

Upload to youtube and post embed in the yet to be created submission thread, preferred, but whatever...


Please Note:
The 1st place prize is nada, 2nd place prize is zilch and 3rd place gets nothin.
There are NO rules, ignore the challenge details if you want, though I reserve the right, and encourage others, to type in all caps..
"BAD FORM! BAD FORM!" if your so tactless as to do something so antisocial as to "topic crash!"


List of possible "Challenge Areas" for next month.


  • Acting\Directing *we done did that one last month!
  • Cinematography *WERE DOING THIS ONE THIS MONTH (MARCH)
  • Production Audio
  • Pre-Production Planning
  • Visual Effects
  • Editing
  • Writing
  • DIY
Here are the choices..


  • Challenge Name: "Wonder Pets"
  • Challenge Description: "film a household pet in the most extraordinarily beautiful way"
  • Challenge Limitations: "no humans allowed in the footage"
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  • Challenge Name: "MACRO WORLD"
  • Challenge Description: "film an extreme macro close up of an ordinary household object"
  • Challenge Limitations: "none"
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  • Challenge Name: "As The Kitchen Turns"
  • Challenge Description: "film a kitchen appliance in a compromising situation with another kitchen appliance.
  • Challenge Limitations: "no porn"
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  • Challenge Name: Night Shoot
  • Challenge Description: Shoot a scene at "night" using your preferred method, either Day for Night, actual night shot with available lighting, or a night shot you light but make it look natural.
  • Challenge Limitations: No longer than a minute, no dialogue.
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  • Challenge Name: Night life exposed
  • Challenge Description: Shoot a scene at "night" using your preferred method, showing the strange things or normal things that happy regularly at night. something that usually happens... but is expected at night.
  • Challenge Limitations: No longer than a minute, no dialogue
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  • Challenge Name: "Your favourite Object"
  • Challenge Description: "make an advert or promotion for your favourite object in under a Minute. Audio dubbing would be nice"
  • Challenge Limitations: "No nudity!"
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  • Name: 3 Long Takes
  • Description: The short must be under a minute, and using only three long takes (no less than 15 seconds)
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  • Challenge name: Cityscape
  • Desciption: Put together a 1 minute sequence of your city, from midnight to midnight.
  • limitations: Your city/area and 1 minute.
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Night shoot would probably be the most challenging. So I like that. Some folks could learn a lot by doing that challenge, for sure.

But I voted for 3 long takes because I think it requires more creativity along with the technical obstacle, vs just the technical obstacle.
 
Night shoot...I could film myself at work.:) I have an interesting idea I might do for the cityscape even if it doesn't win.:P
 
Should the "Night Shoot" take place in an exterior location or just be set at night? I'm guessing that's what was meant by "Day for Night" yeah? Just wanted to clarify. Thanks : )
 
@flicker pictures,
There are no real rules, the participants challenge themselves to what ever level they see fit.

Shooting day for night is a technique where you "pretend" that its nighttime but your really shooting in the daylight. Its a mix of in camera and post tricks to pull off the illusion well.

You can shoot "day for night" indoors, but it might be pointless... if you can control the lighting indoors then just turn off the lights, boom instant night!
 
I will give the Day/Night my best shot-it may not be QUITE what is being looked for-but it's more a personal challenge, so I'll just roll with it :)
 
I voted for Cityscape because I've wanted to do a timelapse sort of thing for a while now...

But it looks like 'night scene' is going to run away with it. Probably good as people (myself included) shy away from shooting at night because it's tricky. If I'm not too busy with my short this month then I'll give this one a go...
 
NickClapper said:
I voted for Cityscape because I've wanted to do a timelapse sort of thing for a while now...

But it looks like 'night scene' is going to run away with it. Probably good as people (myself included) shy away from shooting at night because it's tricky. If I'm not too busy with my short this month then I'll give this one a go...
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you could always do a night time cityscape with timelapse... which is what i was thinking about doing...

or the sky at night as the sun fades it out

but do multiple different ones so that its like 3 different shots done on different days but edited to look like the same end of the night
 
licenseless said:
you could always do a night time cityscape with timelapse... which is what i was thinking about doing...

or the sky at night as the sun fades it out

but do multiple different ones so that its like 3 different shots done on different days but edited to look like the same end of the night
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It's good to see you posting. I didn't know if the tsunami affected your area.
 
wheatgrinder said:
...Id give you 32 points for that!
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You should find some sponsors for this challenge to see if you can get cool stuff for the contestants, but use a point based system with 3 pts for first, 2 for 2nd and 1 for 3rd, then use the accumulated points at the end of a year to award the winner - you should talk to IT for the feasibility of it (it is his board afterall ;) ).
 
CamVader said:
It's good to see you posting. I didn't know if the tsunami affected your area.
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yeah its been a long ass day... i didnt know what we were going to be doing because they first told us 3-5 meter tsunami around 4 oclock this afternoon...

which is like 9 to 15 feet... hahahahah that would have me working for days on end... seriously... we would have to be at work for the next 3 months trying to figure out how to piece together a 60 foot dish hahahahahahahhaahhhahahahahahah damn humpty dumpty wouldnt have shit on me hahahahhahahahahahaha

but then at 530 they told us it would be no more than 2 meters...

then it showed up around 620... or so... and was more like a half meter... so i guess thats not bad... just some pressure testing on the see walls hahahahahah

thanks for the concern though...

i am happy its over... only got 3 hours of sleep this after noon ( i work mids) so im exhausted and at work...

and as long as the plates we are next to dont shift next ... we are fine
 
knightly said:
You should find some sponsors for this challenge to see if you can get cool stuff for the contestants, but use a point based system with 3 pts for first, 2 for 2nd and 1 for 3rd, then use the accumulated points at the end of a year to award the winner - you should talk to IT for the feasibility of it (it is his board afterall ;) ).
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cool idea, but Id just rig it so I won everything.. and thad be no fun fer yall..
 
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