I'm on the judges panel for the Sony PROduction Awards 2014 - Win a FS700!

[Andrew Reid]

The Sony PROduction Awards is a short film competition, and a chance to get your work noticed and win some pretty nifty Sony gear. Filmmakers from around the world will be pitted against each other and go up against a judging panel which includes myself, Andrew Reid of EOSHD, Shane Hurlbut ASC, Philip Bloom, BAFTA winning dramatist Tony Marchant and others!

Enter your film now at the PROduction Awards competition website or read on for more details...

Read the full article here

[Julian]

Cool. Do you have to be a 'pro' filmmaker or an actual filmstudent to enter? Can't find any rules about that.

Looking at last years shortlist you don't really have to be a hollywood producer...

 

The 250MB file size limit is also a bit lame for a 5 minute movie...

[Andrew Reid]

You can be anyone, open to all.

 

For the compression I recommend 720p H.264 at 7Mbit, which is similar to what Vimeo streams at by default. You can easily get 5 minutes under the 250MB mark in that format.

[Julian]

Yeah I noticed it's open for 'wannabees' as well, perfect! Gonna try to force myself to actually make something :P

[Andrew Reid]

Good luck :)

[pietz]

i recommend using Handbrakes Constant Quality RF20. Excellent Quality at probably half of what Andrew is suggesting. Not just for this purpose what in general if you want high quality at a small size.

 

cool to see you on there Andrew, i guess its one of those awards where you just enter something that you already have and not go out and shoot something for it. so for that matter, why not do it...

 

although a much better price would have been the new A7r with all lenses that they announced :D

[HurtinMinorKey]

The Vimeo 1080 preset for Premiere is 5Mbit. I'd raise the target to 6, and put the maximum to 7.

 

Anyone from the US want to team up?

[wolf33d]

Hi, 

 

I am a student, but when I sign up, they ask for my course name and my tutor ? Do I have to study something in "film" industry, or as a business student I can be part of it ? 

Thanks

[Ernesto Mantaras]

Cool! Congratulations, Andrew! I'd love to do a new piece for the contest but I don't know if I'll have the time. I'll do my best to get something new out of the door soon, though.

Still I wonder, does this qualify as "no more than 25%" of CGI in the film?

[markm]

Do you know what? I don't think I've ever entered a competition where they played fair.
They get you at it then change the goalposts change the rules and pick some thing that blows bubbles up Sonys arse and they all congratulate each other. Sorry to be on a downer other peoples experience may vary.

[strancali]

Congrats on being one of the judges, you definitely earned it Andrew!

[strancali]

so which four films walked away with a fs700 in 2013?

[HurtinMinorKey]

bump

[Edward Zaee]

If your film contains any CGI/animation content, it must be no more than 25% of the film

 

OMG, that's very very very confusing. I mean, extreme grading can be considering CGI for some "purists".

 

I'd like to produce a B&W Sci-Fi short.

 

Can you clarify this?

 

 

 

 

BTW nice promo video but....

 

 

...... at least 90% of those shots were "enhanced by a computer".  ^_^

[Andrew Reid]

Grading doesn't count as CGI / animation.

 

I think a general mix of live action and computer animation or stop-motion would be fine, I don't think anyone is measuring precisely for 25% :)

[Rockect Sky Sword]

I am one of the finalist for the 2014 Unite States Super 8 Film and Digital Festival, screening this Feb 17.

And just when I was looking to enter to another competition, Sony slapped me in the face. Looking forward to it. 

PS: It is me, or one of the judges looks like Steve Jobs?

[Jean-Baptiste Avril]

Alzheimer.

Thx Andrew for this offer to show more professional works, and congrats to you to be part of the jury.

Just uploading a 3mm piece I did on Alzheimer. My starting point was that official campaigns to talk about the disease were just too consensuals. Not trying to be negative showing what it is, I included some old pictures of the person concerned not to reduce him to his illness. 

I believe the result is fair and decent.

Never knows, I might be among the finalists!

Cheers

JB

[Edward Zaee]

Andrew, can you upload more then two videos?