http://sites.google.com/site/lifeinadayfaqs/

How do I submit my video(s)?
Between 24 July and 31 July, just click the “Submit” tab on Life In A Day channel and upload the footage directly from your computer. The “Submit” tab will become visible on 24 July.

Does my video have to be documentary? Can it be fiction?
All we’re asking is for you to document your world over the course of a single day; we expect most videos to comprise documentary footage, but if you think that your world is best captured through fictional storytelling or even animation, it is entirely up to you.

Do I need permission to record other people in my video?
Yes, you do need permission to include other people in your video. If your video makes it through the first stage of our selection process, we will email you release forms which you must send back to us signed by anyone who appears in your video.

Can I use music?
Please avoid the use of music within your submission.

What do I need to know about recording sound?
It’s important to think about the audio on your video, as sound recording often affects the overall quality of a video. Good sound recording will probably increase the chance of your footage being chosen to be in the final film. If possible, it would be great to enhance your recording by using external microphones, in addition to those built in to most cameras.

When is the Sundance Film Festival?
The 2011 Sundance Film Festival will take place from 20 January to 30 January 2011. The premiere date of Life In A Day will be announced closer to the start of the festival.

Local film professional, set and prop builder, and last but not least special FX guy Stefan Price is this month's subject. He's created a Friday Night Film Group in Winter Garden that produces internet television and short films under a Creative Commons license. He and his group are inviting just about anyone with a script and the right mindset to come play in their video sandbox.

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Jennifer Wakefield is the Director of Public Relations for the Orlando Economic Development Commission (EDC). In this inteview with Ryan Price, she shares a number of exciting industries taking root all over Central Florida, including Film and Digital Media, Helath and Biomedical, Military Simulation and Training, and of course the Entertainment industry.

Shameless Links:

• Orlando EDC
• Metro Orlando Film and Entertainment Commission, headed by Suzy Spang Allen
• Film in Florida, the Governor's office of Film and Entertainment
• Employ Florida Digital Media Banner Center
• Florida Interactive Entertainemnt Academy Downtown
• Enzian FilmSLAM
• Orlando Film Festival
• Florida Film Festival
• Orlando/Orange County Convention & Visitor's Bureau
• Nemours Children's Health Care
• Burnham at Lake Nona
• City of Orlando Community Venues
• UCF College of Medicine
• Orlando Health and Adventist Health System
• Winnie Palmer Hospital
• Disney Children's Hospital
• Institute for Simulation and Training
• IITSEC Conference
• National Center for Simulation
• Engineering & Computer Simulations
• Texture Magazine
• Global Robotics Institute
• Florida Creatives on iTunes

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If you are still subscribed to this RSS feed, this is a notification that these posts will all be migrated over to Liberatr Presents (live.liberatr.net) or FloridaCreatives.com shortly. Florida Creatives takes the same creative spirit behind this podcast and incorporates a tangible element: at this time, a group of 50 or so people is meeting each third Monday of the month at the Crooked Bayou in Downtown Orlando. Liberatr Presents will have event announcements pulled in from all over the web, recaps of said events, interviews with cool people and tons of your input.

Please change your subscription, as Make it Short will be dissolving sometime this year. Thank you for your support, comments, suggestions and your listenership, and thanks to the Florida Film Festival crew, as well as JJ, Brian and Michael for doing these initial interviews. Your permalinks will still be good and the downloads for the mp3s will still work for a little while, but make sure you check Florida Creatives or Liberatr Presents if you ever lose them.

I’d especially love for all of our past guests to attend the meetup in May on the 21st or June on the 18th.

Peace,
Ryan Price

Orlando ACM SIGGRAPH presents:
An Evening with Imageworks: The Life of an Animator
Thursday, April 19, 2007

Sony Pictures Imageworks presents a special evening and behind the scenes.

Speakers, Dan Lobl and Stan Szymanski, will be talking about Imageworks and their four pipelines: live action animation and visual effects (Spider-Man 1,2,3), all CG animation (Surf’s Up), performance capture (Beowulf and Monster House), and 3D stereoscopic (Open Season and Monster House).

This event will be hosted by Electronic Arts - Tiburon.

6:00-7:00pm - Event Mingle
7:00-7:15pm - Orlando ACM SIGGRAPH announcements
7:15-8:00pm - EA Presentations
8:00-9:30pm - Sony Presentations

COST:
This event is open to all current Orlando ACM SIGGRAPH members and $25 for non-members (Includes an Orlando ACM SIGGRAPH membership for one year).

We can accept cash or checks only at the door. Click here to become an Orlando ACM SIGGRAPH member and pay online using PayPal.

WHO:
Sony Pictures Imageworks

WHAT:
An Evening with Imageworks: The Life of an Animator

WHEN:
Thursday, April 19th, 2007

WHERE:
Electronic Arts - Tiburon
1950 Summit Park Drive
Orlando, FL 32810

For more information and speaker’s bios please visit http://orlando.siggraph.org

This first screening is happening Monday in or around SXSW, but the second one is right here in Florida, even if it is down South. Delray Beach is, to my understanding, in between West Palm Beach and Boca Raton, about 3 hours from Orlando. If you have the time next weekend, check out the festival and Handmade Puppet Dreams (myspace).

Showing Handmade Puppet Dreams Volume ll

MARCH 12th, 2007 @ 7:30 PM
Rain on 4th
Rt 217 B West 4th Street
Austin, Texas 78701

Hosted By:
Dreamland Village

Showing Handmade Puppet Dreams Volume ll

MARCH 17th, 2007 @ 9:30 PM
Delray Beach Film Festival
919 Foxpointe Circle
Delray Beach, Florida 33445

Hosted By:
Delray Beach Film Festival

BONUS: If you are going to be in Delray for the festival, please please please let us know - < liberatr AT gmail DOT com > - I’d love to have someone talking to filmmakers and reporting back, or posting photos at the very least.

There are plenty of local events for film fans this month.  Here are a few to consider:

• February 9-16 — Film Noir Film Festival at the Studio(at)620 in St. Pete — An exhibit of 20th century mug shots complements the film noir classics showcased in this festival.  Films such as Laura, Sunset Boulevard, The Killing and Blood Simple will be introduced by local authors, filmmakers and film critics, with discussions following each screening.  $7 for one film, $10 for two films, exhibit admission is free.
• February 16 at 6 p.m. at Studio XP in St. Pete — Pinellas Filmmaker Society meeting and indie film screening — This focus of this new monthly event is to identify and promote local talent.  People are encouraged to bring in their films, resumes and questions and/or to promote their businesses during the Showcase part of the evening.  This event is free and open to the public.
• February 28 at 8 p.m. at the Studio(at)620 in St. Pete — Ironweed Film Club — A monthly screening of socially conscious films.  Films scheduled to be shown this month are short films Fair Trade:The Story and Interview With Amartya Sen, and feature film Black Gold.  General admission is $5 or $3 for Studio members.
• February 28-March 4 — Gasparilla Film Festival — Movies.  Parties.  Filmmakers.  Panel discussions.  Movies.  Parties.  More movies.  Be there or be square.

(cross-posted at www.tampafilmfan.com)

Start a little romance but rule out conversation. Communicate only through videos, art, emails, written notes. Then share the experience with the world in a narrative film and video podcasts under the banner of “Four Eyed Monsters.”

I think this is taken from the Apple site.

This indie-film/podcasting/internet phenomenon is coming to our fair city, and I intend to let people know about it! I posted it to my Upcoming.org, as that is how I’m letting people know about events lately.

Arin Crumley and Susan Buice created this film and they’re taking it all over the country. They have three screenings in Florida on this day, so I don’t know if they’re actually going to be here, but come and see the film anyway. Also, right now I don’t know when the screening is. Their blog didn’t list a time. Still, it looks like most Enzian screenings are happening at 6:30 and 9:45, but call ahead and ask them yourself. (407) 629-1088

F.E.M. on MySpace

Do you have a Four Eyed Monsters story?

Here’s a podcast with the filmmakers.

For the first time in its six years, the 48 Hour Film Project is coming to Tampa.  The 48HFP is a unique contest where filmmaking teams have only two days to make a film from start to finish.

From the website:

There’s a random drawing just prior to the start of each competition, where each film team will select a genre for its film. In addition, we will announce a character, prop and line of dialogue that must appear in each film. You are responsible for putting together your own cast and crew, and getting equipment and anything else you need to make a film/video. Because we guarantee a screening to all teams that submit an on-time film, we limit the number of teams that participate in each city. 

Visit www.48hourfilm.com/tampa to learn the rules, read about the prizes, sign up for the newsletter or register your team.  Bill Rogers of Windsong Productions is producing the project in Tampa.  His website is www.windsongproductions.com.

On your mark, get set, ACTION!

(cross-posted at www.tampafilmfan.com) 

The submission rules are a tiny bit misleading — there is a big heading for Entry Fee which goes on to say that there is no entry fee, and that all attendees (including filmmakers I assume) must pay $5 at the door to cover the expense to the Enzian. Am I wrong or is this a new rule… feel free to chime in with your memories, guys.

DEADLINE EXTENDED TO THURSDAY, JANUARY 11!

Originally a project of University of Central Florida’s Downtown Media Arts Center, the FilmSlam seemed fated to end when DMAC closed earlier this year. The local filmmaking community and FilmSlam organizers came to Enzian with a request to continue the monthly screenings of local filmmakers’ projects. As a result, Enzian will continue the program to focus on the growing number of indie and student filmmakers in the State of Florida.

FilmSlam will be held on the second Sunday of each month at 1:00 PM at Enzian Theater. Below are the dates for 2007:

The festival itself takes place on December 2nd & 3rd, one can only assume it takes place at the Enzian. Another fun fact: according to the entry form the festival has been showcasing Florida filmmakers for 15 years now.

Also know that this festival is for short narratives and documentaries, less than 25 minutes. If you’re entering as a student, you need to have created your film on school time.

There really isn’t much other information as to the origins or organizers of the festival, but I would like to know so I can post it here, and just for me.

Update: One piece of info over at the Enzian Blog. The best 90 minutes of Brouhaha will be featured at this year’s Florida Film Festival, as “juried by local industry professionals”. Now the rule about “Films that played at the 2005 or 2006 Florida Film Festival are NOT eligible for Brouhaha” makes sense.

• Orlando Film Festival Site
• City Arts Factory
• Michael King’s The Way Back Home
• Make it Short
• Make it Short on iTunes

JJ Ruscella discusses his current film Karaoke King, Film Industry in small cities, developing a franchise and interactive extensions of his project.

Links:

• Karaoke King
• Kris: The Making of a Saint
• Caius Productions
• Make it Short
• Make it Short on iTunes

Simon Brown of Project Huxley, Chase Gordon of Free Lunch for Brad Whitman, Nathan Zellner of Redemptitude, Jeff Mahler of Inside and Anthony Gordon of B.I.K.E. at the First Watch Cafe in Orlando. Ryan Price reporting from the Florida Film Festival.

Each filmmaker gets a chance to discuss his film briefly. The discussion then turns toward submitting to film festivals and online distrobution options as well as trying to find crew for independent projects.

Links:

• Project Huxley
• Free Lunch for Brad Whitman
• Redemptitude
• Inside
• B.I.K.E.
• Make it Short
• Make it Short on iTunes

Nathan of the Zellner Brothers talks about his short Redemptitude and David Applebaum discusses Adios Papitas Fritas. Ryan Price reporting from the Florida Film Festival.

Links:
Zellner Brothers
David Applebaum