How To Make a Film
You don’t need to be a pro with a big camera. Do the best you can with what you have.
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Keep the camera steady
- bad camera work might make us sea-sick. So unless you are making the ‘blair witch project’, hold your camera still.
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Make the sound nice
- its hard to hear the message in film when there are car horns, airplanes, wind blowing into the mic, or the actors are being drowned out by background sounds.
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Work from a script
- Every film needs a beginning, middle and end. Many videos fall short because they weren’t planned with story structure to start with. So, write it, review it, rewrite it and then shoot it.
Rules
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Deadline: August 31, 2013
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Theme: Women and Sikhism.
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ie – it has to be Sikh related, and about women in some way
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Max. Film Length: 25 Minutes.
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We are not looking for the Sikh version of The Hobbit. Keep it concise.
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Suggested film length: 5-7 minutes
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The project must be the creative work of the contestant.
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Be honest, if having your parents “help” starts to turn in to having your parents “direct, produce and edit”, than the film should be in the senior category not the junior.
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Don’t be offensive
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Watch the profanity, gratuitous violence, or discrimination to race/gender
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Include subtitles for non-English films.
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Need help on that? more info
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If you are serious about making a film please do read the full list of rules
