My friends and I entered a film into a national contest and won or something
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Okay, so there's this friend of mine from our acting group who's an aspiring director and he finds out about this national contest, The Great American No Bull Challenge 2012. The overall theme of it was that bullying is wrong or something like that. He calls me up and tells me that we're going to put together a film and enter. So after a few days of filming and editing . . . this.
[video=youtube;Bid4ShXWgfY]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bid4ShXWgfY[/video]
The contest site: [url]http://nobullchallenge.org/[/url]
The film itself wasn't exactly what I'd call a success. The actors either had been from theater or had never acted before so hamminess and inexperience abound. The soundtrack is grating and the writing was about as subtle as nails on a chalkboard and was lifted somewhat from the film [I]Cyberbully[/I]. As the final nail in the coffin, our director had decided to play an obnoxiously blatant song about suicide over the film.
So, imagine my surprise (my friend was far more confident than I) when, lo and behold, our video got into the top 100 in the nation, then handpicked to get into the top 15, and finally into the final eight. We were then promptly flown out to San Fransisco for three days to attend an awards show and see if our film was one of five winners. They interviewed us, people from CNN came and filmed us, we ate fancy food, and we got to meet Sean Kingston for some reason. Our film won best acting, and there was much rejoicing.
I'm the guy in the blue and white striped hoodie/shirt thing, and my friend was the director and cameraman.
Would have been more dramatic if you rented a boom mic to capture their voices more
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I take that back, it was mainly just the first scene
that wasn't nearly as bad as you were making out, it was actually pretty good. The ending was kinda eh, though, but whatever.
"we're really sorry want to come to the game tonight (just say yes my mom is going to take away my xbox if you don't)"
Well, your acting was pretty good, you seemed on the verge of smiling at parts, like some people look when they're really sad/stressed.
It was pretty good
The actin wasn't the best though, but you'd expect that from an amatuer film
I thought your acting was definitely the best part. Good job.
The person that inflicted that song on this otherwise pretty decent short should never be allowed within 10 feet of an editing suite again.
Lets put a singing part over a monologe :downs:
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[url]http://nobullchallenge.org/the-results[/url]
Holla
✔ A $2,000 scholarship
✔ An internship position at the Great American NO BULL Challenge as Campaign Associate Manager during the 2012/2013 year
✔ An iPad and GoPro Hero2 Video Camera
✔ $2,000 text-a-tip program will be donated to your school or organization to help students get help by text message, anonymously
✔ Best Acting crystal statue presented at the NO BULL Teen Video Awards Gala
The acting was really good, i'm not surprised you won the award at all.
Acting was really good
I liked it! the acting was great and believable.
thanks guys!
[QUOTE=Killuah;38136061]Lets put a singing part over a monologe :downs:
[editline]22nd October 2012[/editline]
[url]http://nobullchallenge.org/the-results[/url]
Holla
✔ A $2,000 scholarship
✔ An internship position at the Great American NO BULL Challenge as Campaign Associate Manager during the 2012/2013 year
✔ An iPad and GoPro Hero2 Video Camera
✔ $2,000 text-a-tip program will be donated to your school or organization to help students get help by text message, anonymously
✔ Best Acting crystal statue presented at the NO BULL Teen Video Awards Gala[/QUOTE]
Yeah, we made an agreement, I got the iPad and the statue and Jacob (my friend/the director, editor, and cameraman) took the video camera, the campaign manager job, and the scholarship. Funny thing is, they tried to set it up so that he was the only one that got any spotlight but I ended up doing most of the talking(Jacob isn't a very good public speaker.) Hell, I even gave the acceptance speech for the award.
Should've taken the bux and the scholarship if you could. YOu pretty much won just because of you and the possibilities for future out of the scholarship and the job is worth infinitely more than what you got, monetary and life-wise.
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