Great idea to share all the vids via Spin for world-wide screenings. Yow-sah.
Jan On 4/13/07, Rupert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Nice. I like it. > > See that your planned UK venue is in the Lake District - presumably > with the Common People :) ? > Always glad for an excuse to go to the Lakes. > > If you want to do something down south as well - in London or > Brighton, let me know and I'd be glad to help. > > Equally there are people here in the Midlands and out West. > > Please keep us up to date here in the Group. > > Rupert > http://twittervlog.blogspot.com/ > http://www.twitter.com/ruperthowe/ > http://feeds.feedburner.com/twittervlog/ > > > On 13 Apr 2007, at 12:58, Jason Daniels wrote: > > Hey all, > I am somewhat new to this list and have been following many of the > threads. > I would like to take this opportunity to let you all know about a > project > that I am organizing and to invite the videoblogging community to > collaborate and take this project to the next level. > > The name of the project is the 100 Second Film Festival > http://100second.ltc.org > > Quite simply, it is an evolving collection of videos that are all one > hundred seconds or less in duration. The collection is creatively > commoned > and projected at theaters, museums, bars, libraries, etc. Launched in > 2005, > the goal has been to use the web to share the videos giving people > the power > to build their own community based screenings. In 2007, that dream is > being > realized in new ways. > > There are two primary ways to collaborate: > > 1) Submit a video to the festival. This video should be of fairly high > quality (ie - close to full frame and not Flash). Email the permalink to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tag a video on Blip with '100seconds'. There > are no > limits on theme or subject matter, anything that is one minute and forty > seconds or less is acceptable. Oh yeah, the initial deadline for > submissions is July 1st. More details > here<http://100second.ltc.org/main.html#participate> > > 2) Create your own screening. This is a more time intensive but more > powerful collaboration. Around September 1st - we will be posting all > the > videos from 2005, 2006 and the new submissions from 2007 in a group > on the > collaborative software platform SpinXpress - > http://www.spinxpress.com/jdaniels/100_Second_Film_Festival. > > As an example, I am involved with at least two separate screenings in > Massachusetts which will be composed of lots of local videos that > will be > posted to the Spin group. For the balance of the screening (an 80 minute > show) I will be pulling videos from the Spin group. Another screening is > being planned in the UK and that screening will feature local works > plus a > different slice of videos from the Spin group. Those interested can join > our group and use the software to sort of sculpt their own festival > out of > the videos available. As a community event, it is usually a pretty > successful draw. If you still have public access TV in your area you can > work with them, too. > > Some of the best from 2005 - 2006 are complied into this video on the > Internet Archive. > http://www.archive.org/details/100_Second_FilmFestival_bestof20052006 > > If you would like any more information on the festival you can send > an email > to me at [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Thanks, > Jason Daniels > executive producer > 100 Second Film Festival > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > > > > > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > > > > > Yahoo! Groups Links > > > > -- The Faux Press - better than real http://fauxpress.blogspot.com http://twitter.com/fauxpress [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
