Student Filmmakers: Apple's Insomnia Film Festival

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<p>And now for something completely different… a student film contest…</p>

<p>These students were given their assignments (props, character name, lines of dialog) Friday evening November 10th and had to have a complete 3-minute film submitted 24 hours later. So the task was to write, shoot, and do all of the editing and other post-production in that time and get it in early enough so that it wouldn’t be caught in the last minute upload rush. There were 153 entries from colleges all around the country.</p>

<p>Some of these are pretty good for a 24-hour effort, and some are quite funny. Check these out at <a href=“http://edcommunity.apple.com/contest/results.php?sortmode=3&searchfrom=5&start=0&collection=1[/url]”>http://edcommunity.apple.com/contest/results.php?sortmode=3&searchfrom=5&start=0&collection=1&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>You can also rate the individual films, but you have to register first (to make sure that no one can vote multiple times). The top 25 in popularity (by Dec 5th) will move into the finals to be judged by professionals.</p>

<p>And… (warning: vote pandering coming up!) if you happen to vote for a certain Ohio University production (currently 6th out of all the entries), they would be ever grateful.</p>

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<p>'twould me my grandest pleasure to cast a crucial vote for

In fact, I already HAVE!!! :smiley: :smiley: :smiley: </p>

<p>Mornin’ dig~ :)</p>

<p>~b.</p>

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<p>Thanks, B. Every rating counts.</p>

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<p>I’m voting!</p>

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<p>Oh my gosh! I’m not sure how many of you rated the film, but suddenly the OU film went from 6th place (out of 153) this morning (with 1868 points) to 2nd place (with 4360 points early this afternoon). I’m stunned! Wow! Thanks to all. All of the films’ points increased significantly. Now I thinking that maybe they only update the total once in a while rather than continuously.</p>

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<p>digimedia,
Nice work! H and I really enjoyed the short! I also forwarded it to our son (recent film school grad). It’s always great to see what other students in the field are working on. Thanks for sharing it with everyone!</p>

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<p>Voting by the public has ended. It looks like a “certain-Ohio-University-film” placed 5th of all the films posted by university teams nationwide. Apple had a limit of 500 registrants, but only 156 teams actually completed the project in time (24 hours) to be in the competition.</p>

<p><a href=“http://edcommunity.apple.com/contest/results.php?textsrch=&subjectcode=&topiccode=&searchfrom=5&start=0&sortmode=3&collection=1&subject=&format=&application=&fulltext=[/url]”>http://edcommunity.apple.com/contest/results.php?textsrch=&subjectcode=&topiccode=&searchfrom=5&start=0&sortmode=3&collection=1&subject=&format=&application=&fulltext=&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>The top 25 in the public voting now go forward to be judged by experts (<a href=“http://www.apple.com/education/insomnia/judges.html[/url]”>http://www.apple.com/education/insomnia/judges.html&lt;/a&gt;) and the winner will be announced next week. So “Gagged” became a finalist and is moving on.</p>

<p>Thanks to those of you who voted.</p>

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<p>dig!!!</p>

<p>How AWESOME! Hope those experts are as knowledgeable as <em>I</em> am <em>lol</em>. Then “Gagged” will take it hands down. Absolutely. :slight_smile: ~b.</p>