Weekend Project: ZOMBIE BITES!
This Weekend Project's theme is ZOMBIE BITES!
Shoot a first person video of a zombie bite.
RULES
1. The video must be shot in first person.
2. No music.
3. You don't need to show the bite taking place, but you can if you like.
4. Videos must be between 3 seconds and 3 minutes long
Shoot a first person video of a zombie bite.
RULES
1. The video must be shot in first person.
2. No music.
3. You don't need to show the bite taking place, but you can if you like.
4. Videos must be between 3 seconds and 3 minutes long
5. We must see a person with a zombie bite.
The winner will get a Lost Zombies t-shirt of their choice.
Videos must be submitted by Monday July 26th at 11:59PM Pacific Standard Time.
Upload your video and post a link on this thread.
The winner will get a Lost Zombies t-shirt of their choice.
Videos must be submitted by Monday July 26th at 11:59PM Pacific Standard Time.
Upload your video and post a link on this thread.
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Permalink Reply by Josh Palmer on -
Like I said in the LZ Contests group:
Looks like a great theme for the weekend contest! I hope to see many many more people participate in this weekends contest than the contest before.
Zombie bites!
Get too it ladies and gentleman!!!
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Permalink Reply by Scott Brooker on -
Im going to give it a shot! it sounds so easy and at the same time could be extremely complicated :)
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Permalink Reply by Scott Brooker on
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Can someone define for me the, "shot in first person"?
I read Skot's film school posts, "In a first person film the camera is constantly being acknowledged think of Cloverfield and The Blair Witch. By its very nature first person video is rule-breaking. Acknowledging the camera, also called breaking the 4th wall, is a no-no in traditional film making."
but when I think of first person VISUALLY, I think, video game first person... so no turning of the camera and talking to it etc? just maybe a mirror or other reflective shot to show the characters face.
so I search the net for the answer, and the only thing I came up with was, "There are no rules in film making, only sins." hehehe
I guess what im asking is, what are the Do's and Don'ts of this rule?....
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Permalink Reply by Josh Palmer on
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I thought it was supposed to be "doom" video game type shots...lol...I was kind of confused when you won...because it wasn't at all first person in my opinion...bit apparently its not a big deal.
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Permalink Reply by Scott Brooker on
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I find it very confusing myself..... I wasn't sure during the last project, but figured, ok ill make a video and talk to the camera and be disqualified for doing something wrong and then I would FIND OUT.
its a really hazy rule, and it makes me a bit uncomfortable when im not sure what I should be doing.
its fun to break rules, but only when you know you are breaking them :)
btw good job on your video!
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Permalink Reply by Laz on -
First person is just you and a camera (eg not a set of shots from a locked off camera and then edited together), either facing you or away or both, but you are acknowledging the camera and not pretending that is isn't there, think diaries of the dead, blair witch etc (first person) as opposed to a TV Soap Opera (not first person)
Normally they are one continuous shoot, eg the camera doesnt stop rolling, you are the subject aswell as the cameraman
if this makes sense lol, I kind of made a dog's dinner of it
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Permalink Reply by Josh Palmer on
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Lol...that's what I thought...more or less...further adding to my initial confusion...
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Permalink Reply by Scott Brooker on
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prior to reading that bit in that film school post, my understanding of first person video would be the same as Josh. and having the camera as the eyes of only a single character in the story. so you could talk to the camera like you were talking to yourself and not turn it back at yourself..
so then after reading that bit, I figured, OK, it must mean the camera has to be with a single character and either shot thru his eyes or he/she would have to be in the shot. the camera couldn't suddenly be someplace else without that character.... or shot from another characters point of view.
I kinda thought a good example might be the end credits of the dawn of the dead 2007, the other characters are acknowledging the camera/camera man, at one point he sets it down and walks away from it.
and laz I kinda figured my locked off camera floating over the grass would be a rule breaker because it wasn't set by the character onto some object in the film like a fence post in that case. but I figured it was too corny to keep placing the camera by the character.
I'm still confused :)
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Permalink Reply by Laz on
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ok ignore all of the above including the video game stuff, just pretend that right now, you are actually in the zombie apocalypse and you happen to have a video camera. How you would now film yourself is what you would call 'first person'. for example you are not making a professional film or bothered about fancy shots, you simply have a camera to record your thoughts like a video diary.
The whole of the blair witch project is shot in 'first person'
I think all of the rules in Skot's film school still apply to first person filming.
Skot will most likely come in a post a short sentence that will make this all clear lol but basically you are acknowledging the camera as being with you eg:
http://www.lostzombies.com/video/something-happened-here
http://www.lostzombies.com/video/three-days
http://www.lostzombies.com/video/grid-c1-zombie-ambush
an example that is NOT first person:
http://www.lostzombies.com/video/its-just-a-game
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Permalink Reply by Scott Brooker on
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Laz, I like that explanation! :)
I'm Still very interested in how Skot defines it. it's kinda bugging me I can't find a answer on the internet :) I thought it had everything!
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