This summer, Philips and the renowned
director/producer, Ridley Scott, launched a global filmmaker competition
dubbed the: 'Tell It Your Way Film Making Contest'.
The entrants were given total freedom of expression and could take up any theme they wanted. But there were two rules in the contest to qualify for the prize that were strictly enforced:
1)
Only six lines of dialogue were allowed in the film thus challenging
the film maker to show rather than to tell the story. This insured that
the film submissions would portray a story graphically keeping the
elements in the story visual.
2)
The other rule concerned brevity and challenged the film maker with a
time constraint for conveying the story. Any film submitted in the
contest had to be no longer than a total of three minutes.
Finally
after the judging ended, this was the prize-winning entry in the, "Tell
It Your Way" contest. It is entitled, 'The Porcelain Unicorn.' The
judges were not only impressed with the film but also touched by the
human feelings expressed graphically between two strangers.
7 comments:
Words never need to be spoken,
Love is an inborn trait that says
what our soul is made of.
That's better than any 3 hour long movie that I've seen in a long time.
Wow... What and expression of heartfelt feelings and humanity, no matter the circumstances. Reaching out is the first step...
Smiles, JCinmeforever
I've seen that film before. Very well done. But I can't help feeling a bit miffed because I've been told I have a talent for writing dialogue. It's the old radio background ya know. And I can't help wondering how one might fill 3 minutes of radio time with just six lines of dialogue.
Some years ago I met a writer of radio serials in Oz during the days before TV. He said he used to write the Tarzan episodes in the bathtub, and whenever he ran out of ideas for the plot, he used lots of jungle and animal noises to fill in the blanks. Hehe.
Little did I realize as a kid glued to the radio listening to my favorite serials that Tarzan was a middle-age balding man sitting naked in a bathtub.
Remember, Gary, they had lots of visual footage communication much with no words,. . . . the radio had only the silence. . .
The sounds thereof by Simon and Garfunkel.
The simple act of kindness which at times is often the most difficult to convey. Thanks for this Justin.
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