DepicT! Filmmaking Competition – 2012 Call for Entries

DepicT! is an international short film competition provided by Watershed Media Centre which seeks to uncover up and coming film-making talent in the UK.

The contest is open to applications from film-makers with productions that last no longer than 90 seconds but still manage to show originality, imagination and the ability to engage audiences. Films can focus on a wide range of genres, including:

•Animation.
•Documentary.
•Drama.
•Experimental or artist film.
•Hybrid work.

All shortlisted film-makers will be invited to attend the Encounters Short Film Festival in Bristol.  The winning entry will receive a £1,500 cash prize plus UK distribution through the Digital Screen Network.  Film-makers in the UK may apply.  The deadline for entries to the 2012 competition is 9 July 2012.

For further information please visit: http://www.depict.org/

Sculpture for Community Garden

Local sculptor Jason Parr  has been commissioned to create a sculpture outside the library on Tolhouse Street as part of the community garden project. He has carved a 4.5 metre totem pole decorated with rows of bloaters at the top, a wave and a sun design and  below  initials and names carved by residents under Jason’s supervision.  The sculpture makes a very pleasing visual transition from the severe architectural columns of the library building to the  trees growing along Yarmouth Way.

The community garden has been designed with plants and trees, places to sit, a vegetable patch and apple tree orchard. The project, called ‘Growing Together’, is funded by £50,000 from the Working Neighbourhood Fund and aims to give local people the chance to come together to create a community space and at the same time have the chance to learn about gardening, construction skills and healthy eating among others. The garden will be officially opened on the 30th October, 2010, with a day of gardening-themed activities.

Local film-maker Matthew Harrison has also been involved,  assisting a group of young people in filming the work being done in the garden as part of a project run by the library and Great Yarmouth Museums with support from BBC Voices. Around a dozen young people aged between 16 and 25 and who aren’t currently in education, employment or training were offered a day’s training at the BBC in Norwich and were then taught film-making techniques as they filmed the creation of the garden.

Here is the link on Youtube  to the Growing Together Film. Feel free to add comments or just say ‘like’ if you like it and forward round your networks. Enjoy ! It’s 14 brilliant minutes.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eNwkpuoEq-8

Jason helping Shirley to carve her mother’s name Rose

Any ideas??

Hi

I’m currently trying to think up an idea for a new film. I’m finding it a bit hard. I have a case of writer’s block.  I want to do a comedy mystery a bit like The Pink Panther, but also a bit like Pulp Fiction.

I wondered if anyone had any ideas along those lines, which might help to get me out of this writer’s block.

Thanks

Reel to Real Filmmaking, Emily Payne

Hi my name is Emily Payne,

I am a filmmaker/ photographer just starting out in the industry. I have been working in film professionally for a year. I have worked on 3 feature films, and 4 short films. These all being shot in the Norfolk area mainly in and around Great Yarmouth. Working on these films has opened up more doors, so I can further my career especially in the camera department. I got my first job working in the camera department last year as a trainee clapper loader, on a short film called Waving At Trains starring Pete Postlethwaite.

I have previously done film making work shops with Seachange Arts, and was one of ten lucky young people to get picked by filmmaker Jennifer Oey to shoot a short film in Latvia.

I am currently working on a behind the scenes film for an animation called Reynard City. http://www.reynardcity.co.uk/

If you would like to watch to any of my shot films you can via this link http://www.youtube.com/ElephantStampUK

Also if you would lke to know more about work I have done you can via this link http://www.uk.filmcrewpro.com/cv/em.payne