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Filmmakers invited to SCC for informational meeting Nov. 29 for 48-Hour Film Festival competition
An organizational meeting of the 48-Hour Film Festival teams will take place in Stoner Little Theatre on Thursday, November 29th at 7:00 pm. The general rules of the Festival will be reviewed and individual teams will get together to begin pre-planning. The theatre is located in Stoner Hall on the Somerset Community College Somerset Campus.
SCC Theatre’s 48-Hour Film Festival invites both novice and professional filmmakers to engage in the art and craft of filmmaking in this exciting and challenging two-day event.
Film teams are given only two days to conceive, prepare, shoot and produce a short film (no longer than six minutes in length) and present it on SCC Stoner Little Theatre’s “big screen” along with short features from other filmmakers entered in the Festival.
The films and performances are adjudicated and the evening culminates with an awards ceremony honoring “Technical Excellence,” “Special Achievement in Creativity,” and “Best Film.” Performance awards are also given for “Best Ensemble Performance,” “Best Featured Performance,” and “Best Supporting Performance.” "People’s Choice Awards" will be given to those films that the audience votes on as most effectively incorporating the required elements into the films.
On the first evening of the Festival, film teams attend an official “kick-off” meeting with the producer of the event. At this time, the special elements of the film projects are assigned. To assure that teams do not engage in significant filmmaking before the official 48 hours of the Festival begins, they will not learn of a number of elements that their film must contain until this meeting. First, each team will draw a different film genre after which their project must be stylized.
Four additional elements (the same for all filmmakers) are also assigned at this initial meeting and must be incorporated into the short film. Those are: a line of dialogue, a prop, a character and a costume element.
After the teams receive their assignments, they have 48 hours to complete their project, with all the assigned elements incorporated, and submitted to the producer of the Festival in DVD form.
The festival will take place beginning Friday, Jan. 25, and will end with the screening of the films on Sunday, Jan. 27, beginning at 8 p.m.
Teams that have their films submitted, in proper form, by the deadline on Sunday night, Jan. 27, will have their projects screened before the festival audience and judged for the categories mentioned above.
Anyone interested in creating a film team for the Festival or individual artists who would like information about how to get included on a team can contact festival producer, Steve Cleberg, at 606 451-6760 or by email at Steve.Cleberg@kctcs.edu.
Somerset Community College is a comprehensive two-year institution of higher education. SCC has campuses in Somerset and London, centers in Clinton, McCreary, Russell and Casey Counties. The website is www.somerset.kctcs.edu. Call for admission and registration information toll free at 1-877-629-9722.
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