Looking for people to make films to be shown at Burning Man

PlayaFrame · Post by **PlayaFrame** » Tue Jan 27, 2009 10:43 am

We are looking for filmmakers to make short (15min or less) films that will be shown on a 30 x 45 ft screen on the playa.

If you are interested in having a film shown please visit
http://www.playaframe.org
or contact me through here or [email protected] with any questions.

If you are not interested, thank you for your time.

Thank you,
jefe
[email protected]

klondike_bar · Post by **klondike_bar** » Tue Jan 27, 2009 11:53 am

sounds pretty cool.

mercury_988 · Post by **mercury_988** » Sun Feb 01, 2009 5:44 pm

sounds fun!

so are you looking for already completed films or people who want to work on some?

specific subjects or anything that comes to mind?

I think I might be able to help you out.

Elliot · Post by **Elliot** » Sun Feb 01, 2009 6:30 pm

I have something that might work, and I'm posting it here to gauge general interest.

For almost two years, filmmaker Oli Newsome followed the west coast Kinetic Sculpture Racing circuit with two cameras. He is now editing a feature length docu-drama.

Along the way, he released a number of short films from the individual races -- mostly just to us racers to shut us up.

At one point I spent several days at his house, doing "I'm ready for my close-up, Mr. DeMille" stuff. But while I was there, I was also looking for a film to show in our booth in the 2007 Man Pavillion. I wanted a real eye catcher -- non-stop Kinetic action.

Oli, good guy that he is, agreed to assemble such a film for me. We took his hour-or-more-long film from the 2007 Grand Championship, and edited out all that was not Racing Sculptures in motion. That came to something like 25 minutes, so we added five minutes from the Klamath Falls race. There is no sound, except generic background music.

We started running this non-stop on a TV in the Man Pavillion... and you all know what happened to the Man Pavillion in 2007. So few people have seen it.

You can perfectly well stop this film at 15 minutes -- there is no plot. There is just something like 40 pedal-powered sculptures racing over land, sand, mud and water. You have seen some of these machines on the Playa over the years -- there is a lot of overlap between KSR and BM.

Whaddaya think?

Post by **mdmf007** » Sun Feb 01, 2009 6:50 pm

Do they have to be anygood?

i just started playing with video and editing - and am having a blast. I was hoping to put some news type pieces of whats what onplaya together, edit them as a breaking news type of thing that afternoon and go from there.

whats ya think. My time is limited on playa due to work, so i thought I would premake intros and exits, and drop the content in on the old laptop.

You might have said it already - but what format do you want? and in what media?

DVD, MPEG, AVI, SDcards, Disks, Thumb Drives? This sounds like fun. I was thinking of a sort of BM 911 thing as well. Who knows.

later

PlayaFrame · Post by **PlayaFrame** » Mon Feb 02, 2009 6:14 pm

No it doesnt have to be good. We will show whatever (as long as its not commercialized i.e. no Pepsi commercials). The only way we will not show something is due to time restraint.

With that being said...for the sake of the people that will be watching please dont make anything unbearable haha.

As far as media. As long as it will play on a computer it should work. We are going to make the deadline sometime in late July/early August so we can just make a playlist on the computer and let it run.
So I think for what you are talking about thumb drive might be the easiest.

If I understood you right...you want to make like a news story of that days events? That may play into something else we are going to do. Our plan is also to go around during the day taking pictures...then at sunset we will have a slideshow of that days pictures

PlayaFrame · Post by **PlayaFrame** » Mon Feb 02, 2009 6:18 pm

For Kinetic Sculpture Racing...

Go for it. I tried looking at some of the videos on the page...but internet is kinda sucking here. But yea...I like the idea!

Elliot · Post by **Elliot** » Mon Feb 02, 2009 7:37 pm

PlayaFrame wrote:For Kinetic Sculpture Racing...

Go for it. I tried looking at some of the videos on the page...but internet is kinda sucking here. But yea...I like the idea!

I don't see a snail mail address on your site, so perhaps you can PM or e-mail me an address, and I'll ship a DVD.

Edit:
For a taste of KSR right here on this screen, try this:

It is somebody else's film, but shows off the sport pretty well.
See if you can spot me by comparing with my avatar.

PlayaFrame · Post by **PlayaFrame** » Mon Feb 02, 2009 8:16 pm

oops you were right. I edited the webpage that has that info

http://www.playaframe.org/uploader.htm

that has snail mail...and Im still working on how to get uploading to work.

Post by **mdmf007** » Tue Feb 03, 2009 9:14 pm

PlayaFrame wrote:No it doesnt have to be good......

If I understood you right...you want to make like a news story of that days events? ....

Sounds good - I know you want to preview material, so I will upload the intro and closer, and let you know what sort of content would go inbetween. I was thinking of 90 second news clips opening with a 20 second newsesque, kitchy, burner style of intro graphic set, music and "BREAKING NEWS" style of break in.

I have a few ideas, and will be working on it this week.

PlayaFrame · Post by **PlayaFrame** » Thu Mar 05, 2009 7:45 am

Elliot,
I got your movie a little while back. I like it. Itll be shown.
Sorry for the late reply.

Jefe

Elliot · Post by **Elliot** » Thu Mar 05, 2009 12:25 pm

That's wondermuss, Jefe! Oli Newsome will be delighted. One of these years I hope to have him join us.

Elliot

Homiesinheaven · Post by **Homiesinheaven** » Wed Jul 29, 2009 10:21 am

hi there,

great idea! i curate a collection of short videos (psychedelic, abstract, beautiful) that Burners will like and you might be interested in:

http://www.vimeo.com/spiritworld

if you like any of those i would be happy to contact the owner for permission and a copy.

Minxy · Post by **Minxy** » Wed Jul 29, 2009 2:10 pm

Holy cow, those kinetic racing sculptures were COOOOOL! :D