KNOXVILLE, Tenn., July 21 /PRNewswire/ -- Collaborative filmmaking
site, Rootclip.com, began its second contest with a host of high-profile
filmmakers as new judges.
Through Rootclip, amateur and independent filmmakers, writers, actors,
and film buffs from around the nation develop short films together. Located
at http://www.rootclip.com , Rootclip encourages site visitors to create
customized short film storylines.
Judges for Rootclip's second competition, which runs July 14 through
September 22, include five filmmakers with diverse backgrounds:
-- Michael Samstag, director and producer for the DVD special features
of the first three Harry Potter films
-- Ya'Ke, director of Hope's War
-- David Meyers, director of photography for The Oasis and a film
instructor at Full Sail Real World Education
-- Jeremiah Birnbaum, executive producer of Presque Isle and co-founder
and CEO of the San Francisco School of Digital Filmmaking
-- Rich Cline, a film critic who covers film weekly for BBC Radio Five
Live and the Web site "Shadows on the Wall"
"Our goal is to create connections between directors, writers and
actors across the nation," said Kevin Antoine, president and co-founder,
Rootclip. "With their impressive filmmaking backgrounds, this panel of
judges will draw more people into the collaboration -- making the film an
overall more creative, polished product."
After the successful first contest, titled "Good Luck," Antoine is
eager to see what visitors will create with the new premise, "Chance
Encounter."
"Our new contest revolves around a mysterious event that seemingly
panics an entire town," Antoine said. "The storyline focuses on two
friends, who walk the same route each day to catch the bus for work. Their
lives are pretty mundane until they meet up with an unknown news reporter
waiting at the bus stop. It's up to our site visitors to show us how their
journey unfolds."
How it works
Like all Rootclip.com contests, the development of "Chance Encounter"
will play out over a six-chapter cycle. The Rootclip in-house team develops
an inaugural film chapter to jump-start the story. Participating filmmakers
then view the root clip, a few minutes of content that begins the story but
has a completely open-ended conclusion, and then shoot their own rendition
of what should happen next. The users upload their one-minute chapters to
Rootclip.com, where online viewers and the panel of judges judge the
submissions and select the chapter winner. The judges' scores count for 50
percent of an entry's total score while votes from Web site visitors make
up the remaining 50 percent. Once the winner for that chapter is announced,
the open submission period begins again. This process repeats itself four
times before culminating in a final chapter competition among all previous
chapter winners.
Prizes for each "Chance Encounter" chapter winner include a $250 VISA
gift card; a Balance Beam by Trig Industries, a tool designed to add
stability and smooth video shots for smaller digital camcorders; and "Video
for the Web" Video Training DVDs from Vasst.com. The grand prize is $2,000
in cash.
Participants are encouraged to keep entries between one and two
minutes, and to maintain character consistency through wardrobe. Winners
for the second, third, fourth, and fifth chapters will be eligible to
submit the sixth chapter, and possibly win the grand prize.
About Rootclip.com
Rootclip.com was created to give filmmakers, writers, actors and
anybody who just likes to watch movies the ability to collaborate on a
video project. Rootclip's goal is to be the catalyst that gets people
thinking and being creative with video in such a way that it infects the
masses and brings a new life to the art of filmmaking.
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Related links:
http://www.Rootclip.com
CONTACT:
Allen Klosowski of Rootclip, +1-303-886-0402,
allen@rootclip.com
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