The Three Day Film Festival will be getting a shotgun start on Thursday, August 7, 2008. Some teens are already getting mentally prepared for the challenge ahead.
Students at Richland Northeast High School are polishing up their shooting and editing skills that they learned at school last year.
Yotum Almor, a senior at Richland Northeast who is is in the Palmetto Center for the Arts Program for theater, is excited about the festival.
"Mainly for the experience of the rush," he says.
Almor is preparing to create an original piece of cinematic magic in just 72 hours.
"It's a lot of work, usually takes about two months. So three days is, uh, is something new for me."
It's something new for organizers too. Susan Leonard, the Director of Media Arts for the South Carolina Arts Commission, says the Three Day Film Festival will offer a new experience from other festivals, like the Indie Reel and Toaster Festival.
At the kickoff, each team or individual will be provided with some important information that will have to be used in their short. "Each team will be given these pieces, the object and the line of dialogue, and then they will have 72 hours from script to screen, to put it together, and complete, and then we are going to have a screening."
Leonard says, "It's a collaborative art, it takes a lot of people skills, but also technical skills."
The students creativity is put to the test under a fast deadline, which Leonard says, brings out some of the best in the students. "There's a lot of dimension to their thinking, and a lot of energy."
Almor says he's already been thinking about an approach to the challenge, even though he won't have the specifics until Thursday's kickoff. "Picking the character based on the line.. that will make it easier," he says.
"I'd like to pursue film making first and maybe be in my own films," Almor says. "They are creating wonderful opportunities here."
The Three Day Film Festival is a contest for middle and high school film makers. They will be asked to write a script, shoot a short and provide their film to the screening. Entries must include a line of dialogue and an object that are announced at the kickoff, in addition to a literary character that is chosen by the film maker.
Kickoff is August 7, 2008 at 3pm. The screening is open to the public and is on Sunday, August 10 at 6pm at the Columbia Museum of Art.
For more information or to enter, email 3dayfilm@gmail.com
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