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Insomnia Film Festival
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Write, cast, shoot, edit, score, sleep. In that order. The first ever Insomnia Film Festival challenges you and your team to write, shoot, and edit a short film in just one day.
Targeted to sleep deprived college students, the 24 hour contest is hosted through Apple's education program. Listed below are the required film elements.
You must incorporate at least three of these elements in order to make your film eligible for the contest. And should also include an opening shot that lists your team name and the three elements you’ve chosen.
You must incorporate at least three of these elements in order to make your film eligible for the contest. And should also include an opening shot that lists your team name and the three elements you’ve chosen.
- Required character name: Alex Kona
- Required dialog line: “No, you don’t understand what it’s like growing up here.”
- Required costume: leather jacket and dark sunglasses
- Required prop: ice
- Required side kick: pet monkey
- Required setting: abandoned building
- Required shot: clock with 4:11 on face
- Required makeup: fake eyelashes and blue eye shadow
- Required genre: sci-fi/fantasy
- Required camera effect: crane or boom shot
- Required editing device: musical montage
After the entries are posted to Insomnia's web gallery, they will be available for the public to view and rate. Voting will continue through December 3rd and the 25 top rated films will be judged an expert panel.
Two winners will be chosen, the audience and the judges’ pick, and each winner will win a copy of Final Cut Studio, a copy of Shake, and an 80GB video iPod for their portable portfolio.
So get cracking, there is only 22 hours left. The contest ends at 5pm EST tomorrow.
