footagehead MARQUEE Mini-Movie Contest
Very little online/mobile content takes advantage of the creative possibilities of using stock footage. A cost effective solution such as 
footagehead could change all that.
First, filmmakers have to explore creative possibilities of using stock footage, and that’s something that the footagehead MARQUEE Mini-Movie Contest aims to solve. The prize ($500 or an Apple Gift Card) could also be incentive to enter.
If you’re making short films, for mobile, online or any other distribution platform, footagehead offers royalty-free 16×9 stock footage at $200 a clip (most clips are 10-second long). The majority of footagehead’s clips were shot on high definition low bit rate cameras using interframe compression such as the Panasonic P2, the XDCAM HD (EX1), and various HDV cameras. Some clips were shot with less compression such as on Panasonic’s Varicam and some were down-converted from HDCAM to DVCPRO HD. A select group of historical shots were up-converted from standard definition to HDV. All of footagehead’s clips have an aspect ratio of 16 x 9 (widescreen).
The Contest:
Using stock footage from the footagehead website, students are invited to create a short film of up to 60 seconds. footagehead is looking for unusual and innovative presentations that will appeal to contemporary media makers and be used to promote footagehead to clients across the entertainment, advertising, corporate and web media sectors. Students are invited to compose and edit a one minute movie using only footagehead clips.
For contest details and submission information, contact footagehead at (310) 822-9600 or info@footagehead.com by September 15, 2009.
“Offline” movies using the downloadable preview clips from the footagehead site should be submitted to info@footagehead.com referencing “marquee movie contest” no later than October 15, 2009.
Submissions will be presented to a board of four professionals in the film and television industry including a writer for The Hollywood Reporter, a web design executive for Warner Bros. Feature Films division and the president of a local creative agency as well as a FootageBank HD executive. The creator of the winning movie will receive $500. The creators of the second and third place movies will receive $100 Apple gift cards.
Three finalists will be selected on November 1, 2009 and will be given access to master clips for their final edit. Final films are due by November 20, 2009 and winners will be announced December 1, 2009.
For cinematographers interested in submitting footage for consideration to footagehead’s stock footage collection, material is accepted shot with HDV, P2, DVCPRO HD, XDCAM HD, and HDCAM down-converted. Accepted Master File Codecs include HDV, DVCPRO HD, PHOTO JPEG, and XDCAM HD. For more information on the submission process, go to the footagehead website.
footagehead founder/president Paula Lumbard brings over 20 years of industry experience to this, her third and latest footage enterprise. Paula has built a reputation for her fair and just business practices. Vice President and IT specialist Carol Martin has been in the footage industry for over a decade and headed up the creation of this new footage store.
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