Competitors will begin Friday night with instructions about elements that must appear in their film, and then using tools built for video games, virtual reality environments, and other mainstays of the Machinima community, they will make a short film in only a weekend.
Take a few minutes to enjoy this short piece from one of the competing teams. (Fluent Media Productions)
We can’t wait to see what these teams create. You can see it yourself in Second Life when the films are screened.
The judges have seen this year’s films and are ready for the Awards Night. They laughed a lot (often, where you intended for them to), and they cried a couple of times (once each over the terrible music I put on the DVD Screener Menu), and more than once they reported having the hairs on the back of the neck stand up.
So here are the nominations for Awards to be presented on Sunday night:
(an envelope rustles…and then)
(Nominees are presented in alphabetical order)
Best Visual Effects
Beeswax
Dimensions of Grandeur
Elf & Fairy
Best Production Design
Come Back to Me
loveHarmony
Spindrift
Best Editing
The Exchange
Love Technically
Spindrift
Best Cinematography
Come Back to Me
The Exchange
Spindrift
Best Screenplay
Beeswax
Criterion
Love Technically
Best Acting Ensemble
Beeswax
The Highest Bid
Steve Rising
Best Acting Female
Beeswax (Danielle Perata – The Queen Bee)
Dimensions (Susan Luce – Sheila Berman)
loveHarmony (Michelle Marquette – Sheila Berman)
Best Acting Male
Beeswax (Jake Lyall – Mark)
Beeswax (David Bettencourt – Glen)
The Exchange (James Davis Jr. – James)
Best Direction
Beeswax (Jacob Rangel)
Love Technically (Turner Caldwell)
Spindrift (Allison Ayer)
Best Film
Beeswax
Criterion
The Exchange
Love Technically
Spindrift
The winners of these awards and many more will be revealed at the San Jose 48 Hour Film Project Awards and Highlights Night. Details are here:
San Jose 48HFP Awards Show
Sunday Sept 19, 5-8pm
Theatre on San Pedro Square
Tickets: $10 online (http://bit.ly/bj4svD)
Audiences for the 2010 48 Hour Film Project in San Jose submitted ballots during the screenings and results are finally in.
These are the films that came out on top at the ballot box this year. (They are presented in alphabetical order.)
Group A:
Beeswax
Deported
Elf & Fairy
Group B:
Come Back to Me
Jefferson Banks
loveHarmony
Group C:
Love Technically
The Price
Spindrift
You can find out who wins the top honor in each category as well as see most of these films on Sunday night, Sept 19th at the San Jose Theatre on San Pedro Square. Here are the details:
Bay Area filmmaker DB Cheng contributed to the 2009 San Jose 48 Hour Film Project hit “Dave and Liz.” For the 2010 season he decided to bring his own film company, EM West Productions to the party and submit his own competitive entry. This is what they came up with. We think you’ll enjoy their new film, “loveHarmony.”
Awards from the San Jose 2010 season will be presented on Sept 19th in the Theatre on San Pedro Square.
We love to feature content that is designed to enlighten and teach. It’s no secret that the TED lectures are among the best of this sort of material online.
These talks are a little bit longer than typical clips and videos online. But they are definitely worth the time.
In one of the best of this series, Vilayanur Ramachandran tells us what brain damage can reveal about the connection between celebral tissue and the mind, using three startling delusions as examples.
Imagine now, inside your head is a 3 pound mass of jelly asking the question, “when will I check in on this blog again?”
Seems like teams that compete in the 48 Hour Film Project either love or hate the new genre: Adventure Serial.
This veteran team (you may know them as Beyond Forever Studios — now Ovation Pictures) leapt on the opportunity to do a sendup of the most iconic adventure serial from modern times. We think you may get as big a chuckle from this as the audience did in San Jose.
You can see how this movie did in audience polling and with the judges by attending the Highlights and Awards Night on Sept 19th.
Rising star filmmakers at Stabbing My Jelly! submitted this film to the 2010 San Francisco 48 Hour Film Project. They went all out with the look and took on a different style from their efforts in the past.
Their entry in the San Jose competition is a candidate for Audience Choice Award as well as other top honors from the judges. You can see how they did at the Highlights and Awards show on Sept 19th. Details can be found on the San Jose 48HFP website.
Veteran competition filmmakers at Outlaw Media Productions brought in this charmer for their San Jose 48 Hour Film Project entry for 2010. We like to applaud their enthusiasm for finding and developing very young new talent for the community. We’re starting to be a little bit excited about some of their recent finds.
Take a few moments to visit with Jack and his father. You tell us who has more game!
Find out how this film, and the other great movies made for the 2010 San Jose 48 Hour Film Project fared with judges. Join us on Sept 19th for the Fourth Annual San Jose 48HFP Awards and Highlights Night. Details are on the City Website.
For the most part here at See It Online, we’ve favored the short works, and those that primarily deliver entertainment. (We like being entertained, don’t you know…)
But one of the richest emerging veins of emerging online content is that of educational matter once reserved for university students, and attendees at top level industry conferences. From among those, the one stream that stands out head-and-shoulders, is the series of talks given at various TED conferences.
Over the next several weeks, we’ll point you to a number of TED lectures online that are definitely worth watching. Since these tend to be longer than a typical online clip (these tend to be around 20 minutes in length), you may want to view them when you know you’ll have some uninterrupted time. (Maybe it’s when the boss heads off for a weekly meeting — or just after the kids have gone to bed…you get the idea.)
Take a look now at this delightful romp through statistics about the world with Hans Rosling. Your view of the world may be slightly changed when you hear what he has to say.
If the number of times that you said (or thought), “I didn’t know that!” is less than six, you either weren’t paying attention or you already have an amazingly well-founded world view.
It’s tough finding connections with friends you can trust when you’re a teen. The folks at Outlaw Media Productions know this and illustrate it very well with their midsummer short film, Zombie Prom Date.
These veteran competitive filmmakers created 5 short films in Bay Area competitions this summer (that we know about) and we thoroughly enjoyed this one.
This film received awards for best acting and best screenplay in the competition for which it was created.
To see their latest film (Jack) when it is released, stay tuned here.