Other film festivals

Since we have this finished product, I figured we might as well milk it for all it's worth. Here's a resource to find other short film festivals that we could potentially submit our work to: http://www.shortfilmcentral.com/events/

the part of the script that isn't in the storyboards

Scene: The doodle is made

CLASS SCHEDULE

You! Be at Ha's house at these times! 

Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday from 6pm to 10pm. 

Friday 3-10 with a break for dinner/SOCA

Saturday 2-10, with a break for dinner

Sunday 11-3 or 4 or 5?


Remember that these set times shouldn't preclude individual work time on the "sets 'n props" to-do list if we have time to spare. Hopefully our legions of volunteers should help us burn through that quickly though!!


Also remember that our goal is to have filming of the Tower Interior scenes and all the Doodleland props/set done by SUNDAY so that we can start filming Doodleland!




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Set #1: The Tower Interior!

We are finished with set #1! We are only...two days behind on our most recent schedule so far. 

Doodle Do

Rolling to do list!

j-make background for Ringo's house in the drawer

j-fill in Lucy’s line after oscar says “strange” in the ship

j-make a clown werewolf mummy with knives for fingers

∞-make watercolor practice flowers

∞-get/make/cut a big piece of paper that will be the fear (for the biggest fear)

e- make windows in doodletown. make some windows for doodles to peek out of (make sure they are big enough) make boarded up things or metal guards to go behind them. If possible have them be able to look out through the slats. They should be removeable (do not glue!) and maybe open in different ways.

je-make background drawings for the little ship to be pulled across. See script for backgrounds.

je-make a spaceship/houses/whatever new things will spring up in doodletown.

Je-think of background for hand show

h- find sock-monkey socks for his close-up hands (ha’s friend???)

Ja-ask Jeff if he’ll narrate for us

a-make/get self portrait of allie’s brother

Deadlines

If we are going to finish this, we have got meet these deadlines come heck or high water!
LET'S DO IT

Here is a list of all the things that need to be made for these scenes. The ones in red need to be finished by Friday the 9th for filming!! The ones with a ∞ by them, anyone can do, but if your initial is next to something, you're the best person for the job.

j-email mr. bennet - Think – using allie’s brother, also using mr. bennet’s class…. Timing concerns!! Also, sophie?

j-make a new tree

j-draw a 2D mini-ship

j-make little inky things for the dresser drawer

j-make ringo

j-fill in Lucy’s line after oscar says “strange” in the ship

j-make a clown werewolf mummy with knives for fingers

∞-email matt king, see if there’s any way to check out the AFO camera on weekends.

∞-make a calendar of everyone’s schedules (including kenny and kelley)

∞-make scribbles

∞-make post-it shrubs

∞-trim doodlelands paper

∞-make and cover front doodlelands hill in pre-ripped paper, then notebook paper. Leave bottom fringe so that it hides the frame edge

∞-make a word balloon for sock monkey. On a stick or wire that is held seperately

∞-patch the sun that’s already there by cutting out a horizon-to-top strip that covers the sun, paint it blue.

∞-buy blue fuzzy gloves the same color as oscar, also find sock-monkey socks (ha’s friend???)

∞-make tiny paper /map that gets printed out of dood

∞-write [kid’s name] Mrs Wittkopf’s class Period 5

∞-get/make/cut a big piece of paper that will be the fear.

∞-make tiny smoothies, maybe a little smoothie machine

e-cover trees with yellow

e- make windows in doodletown. make some windows for doodles to peek out of (make sure they are big enough) make boarded up things or metal guards to go behind them. If possible have them be able to look out through the slats. They should be removeable (do not glue!) and maybe open in different ways.

Je-make a sun w/moveable face

je-make background drawings for the little ship to be pulled across. See script for backgrounds.

Je-draw a fruit bowl full of aaahhhberries

Je-make dood’s bowl (2D) also a bag of scribble kibble to put next to it maybe.

Je-draw a record and player and record cover with swinging arm

je-make tiny pizza cutter

je-make a spaceship/houses/whatever new things will spring up in doodletown.

Jeh-make the dresser (non-functional)

h-make life-sized pen

h-make little-sized pen

h-make a cushion that slides onto the stick to become a stool.

h-make badges

h-make the pencil sharpener gun

h-make a tiny pencil

h-make a tiny pen (simpler than the squid pen! For lucy at the end)

Ja-ask Jeff if he’ll narrate for us

a-make/get self portrait of allie’s brother

just a wow picture

New York International Children's Film Festival

In order to get the into the NYICFF, we need to get cracking!
This year, the deadline for Student Short Films (that's us) is OCTOBER 15TH.
That's roughly four months.

Requirements:
Film on DVD (PAL or NTSC) -- I don't know what this means.
$25 entry fee
Entry form -- http://gkids.com/images_submit/NYICFF2012EntryFormShort.pdf

Optional:
Promotional material (high res jpgs, reviews, bios, etc)

For more information: http://www.gkids.com/?section=submit

What's Next?

Hey Y'all,

I'm looking forward to seeing your progress on the stage - set - prop - puppet production. My suggestion would be to use what you have to create some still photographs. Let's see something, folks!

Send me some pics!

Din Quixote Soundtrack

As presented by Flavorpill:


Don Quixote de la Mancha is a complex figure. He is at once a rational thinker and a raving madman, a deep romantic trying to create a better world and a sympathy-evoking innocent. He sets off on an imagined quest to win glory for his imagined paramour, and spends the novel trying to distinguish between his hallucinations and his reality in an only slightly exaggerated description of the way we all live our lives. His intentions are forever honorable, though they never seem to come to any good, as he is too often waylaid by his own foolishness. There’s some contention that Quixote knows more than he lets on – that his insanity is an act of sorts, but we interpret him in the middle ground: not totally bonkers, but not self-aware enough to be sly about it either. Here’s what we think he would fight windmills, make declarations, and uphold the code of the knight-errant to.

“Desaparecido” – Manu Chao
The sun-drenched tones of Manu Chao would definitely be Don Quixote’s go-to soundtrack for wandering around with Sancho Panza in the Spanish sun.
“I Just Wasn’t Made For These Times” — The Beach Boys
A perfect song about trying to find your place in a world that doesn’t make sense to you, sung by a classically optimistic band that would appeal to our hero’s innocent enthusiasm. Plus, maybe he could have a moment of self-realization when he hits the lines “They say I got brains/ But they ain’t doing me no good/ I wish they could…”
“Where Do My Bluebird Fly” — The Tallest Man on Earth
We think Don Quixote would appreciate the almost painful beauty of this song, sorrowful fever dream music for his lonely adventuring.
“(Have You Ever Been To) Electric Ladyland” — Jimi Hendrix
We just want to know what Don Quixote would hallucinate Electric Ladyland to be. We think he’d have fun with this song – after all, every lovable lunatic we know is a Hendrix fan.
“This Year” — The Mountain Goats
Any gentleman who has gone mad with chivalry from reading too many books about knights would also have to be into the hyper-literary Mountain Goats. There’s just no other way.
“I Want to Know What Love Is” — Foreigner
Our hero is a hopeless romantic, for sure, and he’d totally be into cheesy 80s rock songs. But his belief in the rigidity of right and wrong and the purity of love is what keeps him going through beatings and giants, through enchantments and humiliations, so there are worse things.
“Blowin’ In The Wind” — Bob Dylan
While Dylan isn’t necessarily the picture of the chivalrous knight in real life, this classic track would definitely appeal to a wandering adventurer trying to instill some good in the world.
“Such Great Heights” — The Postal Service
All idealistic, semi-dorky lovers dig the Postal Service. Also, this is a song about overcoming obstacles in the face of naysayers, something that we think Quixote would probably identify with.
“Love Vigilantes” (New Order Cover) — Iron & Wine
This song manages to be both chivalrous and super wholesome, but not obnoxious, which is something of a feat. We imagine Don Quixote listening to this track and wishing he had a wife and family of his own.
“Hands of Time” — Ron Sexsmith
In a certain sense, Don Quixote is just an aging man looking for an adventure to help him in the fight against his mortality. Like so much else in Quixote’s story, it’s a losing battle.