10-Day Film Challenge

(ok not really film, but you know...)

The Challenge

• The goal for this project is to orchestrate an entire short film production on and EXTREMELY tight schedule.

• You did it in 4 days, you can do it in 10!

The Rules

• All work must take place during class time, within the 10 days.

• Final product must be exported, WITH paper materials by 4pm on day 10. (May 6th)

• I’ll bend where I can, as long as it looks like we can’t get caught. (shhhh!)

More Rules• Each group will have a specific

genre

• Romance, Suspense/Thriller, Sci-Fi/Fantasy, Documentary/Mocumentary, Foreign/Silent, Historical Fiction, Time Travel, Superhero, Found-Footage

• Chosen at random (magic hat)

Requirements• Issued by the 10-Day people

• A character name and occupation

• A prop

• A specific line of dialogue (used verbatim)

• “That is a crazy cat!” is not “That’s a crazy cat!”

Limitations• Any special effects need to be

original

• If you think it’s going to take too much time, work around it

• Any music needs to be original

• ie: your/friends band, soundtrack pro

• Photos (if used) must be original

• take them yourself

Submissions

• Final exported movie

• Script

• Storyboard

• Movie Poster

Movie Poster

• Must be 13x19, no more than 20mb.

• Must have title of movie

• Line of dialogue can not be the title

• Finished by Day 9, and submitted to me.

Film Length

• No less than 3 minutes

• No more than 4 minutes

• Ending credits can be a maximum of :15sec. Does not count towards 4 min.

• Opening credits count towards TRT.