Enter the “Quarantined Film Festival” for Green River Students Only (New Deadline June 5th)
Green River College’s award-winning newspaper, The Current, is hosting a special film festival to keep our community connected while coronavirus keeps us at home.
With the world shutting down, businesses closing up, hospitals filled with the suffering and the press in a tempestuous haze, people need each other more than ever. But just because nearly everyone is stuck at home does not mean the Green River community is put on hold.
The Current is proud to present the “Quarantined Film Festival,” where students produce and upload short films to YouTube and Vimeo. The films will be judged by a special panel of professionals, educators and members of the staff. The first place winner will receive a $100 gift card of their choice, and the top 3 films will be shown on The Current’s website at www.thegrcurrent.com
Quarantined Film Festival
Who: For students at Green River College
What: An online film festival where students create short films from home about some aspect of the quarantined lifestyle we’re all living!
When: Turn in your films via a YouTube or Vimeo link to thecurrent.ae@mail.greenriver.edu by 8 p.m., Friday, June 5th. (late films will be watched, but not accepted to the festival unless we have less than 5 submissions total.)
Where: Wherever you’re quarantined.
Why: Because it’s fun, and what else are you going to do with your time?
How: See below.
Film Festival Guidelines:
1. You can only film with people you already live with (Do not invite anyone over for this)
2. If you have more than one actor, they must be roughly 6 feet apart.
3. Do not cast someone who feels sick to be in your film.
4. Your film can be about anything, it simply must be only 2-3 minutes long. (This may be college, but try not to be too graphic. Obviously, no nudity or overtly graphic violence.)
Other info:
Do not invite large groups of people over to make your quarantine film. Be both safe and creative by making something by yourself or with the people you live with. This can be anything from a drama where your family plays every character, a stop motion with lego guys, or even a documentary about your pet cat. Have fun and happy filmmaking!
How to Make a Short Film
1. Make a story board or an outline of what your story will be with a beginning, middle, and end.
2. Fill it in with dialogue for each character to say that will make up the story as a whole. (Unless you are a professional improviser, it is highly recommended that you do not skip this step.)
3. Get your actor(s) or subject(s) together (from a safe distance) and review your preproduction work with them if necessary.
4. Get your camera or phone and start shooting! Try to keep with your original ideas as best you can, but feel free to play around with new ones during production!
5. Now it’s time for post-production, or the editing process. You may be doing this all on your phone, but I highly recommend hooking up your phone or camera’s sd card to a computer and editing it on there if you can.
6. Feel free to get creative with this. You don’t necessarily need actors or a story for your film. You could even just film nature time lapses with royalty free music if you want. It’s all up to you!
Send any questions about the festival to: thecurrent.ae@mail.greenriver.edu
Happy filmmaking, Gators!
-Connor O’Boyle, AE Editor — The Current
