2 of my friends and I decided to send a team application to the Scandinavian Film Competition. It's a competition where you compete as a team against 17 other teams (6 from Denmark, 6 from Sweden and 6 from Norway) to see who can stay awake and watch most movies in a row, with only 10 minutes of break between each movie. Last years winners did 81 hours.
So anyway, we sent this movie in hopes of being chosen:
(unfortunately it's in danish)
AND WE WERE CHOSEN! wee
So, in mid november it's on. And until that - lots of training ;D
One of the prizes is a trip to Hollywood!!!!!!!
Go Team Butterfly!!!!! ;D
Besides that:
We finished our final movie project at filmschool and had the premiere, in the most packed cinema we've ever had. 1100 people was there. What a night!
Here's Manhood with english subs:
Then our movie FREYA won the Best Fiction award at the Foor River Film Festival in Croatia.
So, this weekend (starting Friday) is the production weekend of our last short film, as students at the film school Station Next. Exciting! This summer we finish school after 3 great years and 6 movies.
Since this is our last production, it had to be something really special. We've done several weeks of preproduction and now it's time for production/shooting. Wohoo! Can't tell too much about it yet, except that everyone has been working REALLY really hard!!!
Anyway, this time I'm not personally working on the film. I'm doing a "behind the scenes" film, with two other girls from the team. Gonna be interesting. It's been pretty hard work. It wasn't as simple as I thought it would be, since we wanted to do something different than what is usually done, but still had to keep it connected to the actual film and crew. We've come up with a lot of ideas but finally settled on one a few days ago. A bit late. But I think it's a pretty good idea!
Besides that, our short film from last year; FREYA, has been nominated at the Westport Youth Film Festival in Connecticut, USA. Super excited about that!
If you haven't seen it, take a look here:
I wanted to post some pics from preproduction, but unfortunately don't have any on this computer.
More blogs and pics will come during/after this weekend.
So, one of the movies I have worked on at Station Next (my film school) has been nominated at the National Film Festival for Talented Youth in Seattle.
Awesome!
The movie is "Besøg" (meaning: "The Visit"), a short film we made in the autumn of 2010. The criteria for the film was, that there was not allowed to be any dialog. Not as easy as it may sound!
Watch it here if you want! :'D
Last year our movie "Upside Down" was nominated too, but didn't win.
So, it's been a while since I've actually written anything about my own movieprojects. So I thought I'd give a little update on what's going on.
Our main production from first year at filmschool, "En Verden Vendt På Hovedet" (english: "Upside Down"), won the Grand Prix award at the Four River Filmfestival in Croatia a month ago. It was a complete surprise to us all, since we all have very mixed feelings about the movie. If you haven't seen the movie, you can see it here, though it's in danish and without subtitles:
http://www.station-next.dk/film.asp?side=2&id=62&film=7254&show=1
We finished our main production from second/last year at filmschool. It's called "FREYA" and we're all extremely proud of it. We had a pretty 'big' budget on this movie (considering what we normally do, anyway) so we had the chance to play around with the technical part. The movie was shot on a DSLR camera, and some on Super 8. We had some super long days of production (36hours in 2 1/2 days - one day with 18 hours), but it was well worth it. We've had so much positive feedback on that movie, and can't wait to see if it'll be nominated at any festivals. If you haven't seen that one either, watch it here, though again it's in danish and without subtitles. But they'll come eventually:
Last but not lease we've begun pre-production for our first film as last-year students. The criteria for this movie were:
- It has to be a genre film, meaning we had to choose a genre and write the movie so that it would fit the elements of that genre.
- We wouldn't get any professional help on the actual days of shooting, like we normally do.
Besides that, our group of about 20 people was split up into two groups, so we're making two movies in all.
My group has chosen the (pretty tricky) Sci-fi genre. I'm the sound technician on this set. We've basically got the story down, and the style to the movie, but we're having a few problems with the locations, since they are pretty tricky, and we've got a super low budget this time. But no worries, things will work out eventually, just like they always do.
Shooting will take place in three weeks, and we've got quite a lot of work to do before, but it's always exciting to see how people work under pressure. =D
Anyway, here's the 'short' update on things. I'll go watch 2001: A Space Odyssey now, for some inspiration!
Sharks are truly one of the most fascinating creatures out there. Since, well, as long as I remember, I have had a huge interest in sharks, and they have always been my favorite animal. I have watched countless amounts of documentaries on sharks and the oceans in general, and I am just about to begin taking my diving certificate (I actually got it for my 15th birthday, but haven't had time to take it yet).
So yesterday I sat down and watched another shark documentary - "Sharkwater". It was quite interesting, since it delt with a side, not many other documentaries have (of the ones I have watched at least). It delt with shark finning, but in a completely different way than I have seen before. The whole movie had a very personal tough to it, since we are actually following the film director Rob Stewart. In stead of it being a bunch of random people showing some pictures and telling a bunch of facts, we were a part of Rob Stewart's story.
But still he managed to not just tell a personal story, but have a good balance, including a lot of facts and some quite nasty pictures.
But back to the shark finning point. I wouldn't say it was an eyeopening experience for me, since I already was quite aware of awfulness about it, but he did sure have some parts to it, I wasn't that aware of.
I did end up with tears in my eyes at one point; some pictures were simply too disturbing.
The only really negative thing I want to say about this movie, is the narration. It was by far the worst narrator I have ever heard, because of his voice. But you'll have to watch it to see why ;-)
