The 4th Annual The Escapist Film Festival Is Now Live

[FlitterFilms]

I'm excited to see what everyones done and scared to see the many reasons why I won't win.

 

[FlitterFilms]

I might be being thick but the names of the clips don't seem to be posted by the videos so I have to keep going back to the beginning of them to see what it was, if indeed it is displayed at the beginning, which I don't think mine is.

Isn't this a little awkward?

 

[Swishdude]

I might be being thick but the names of the clips don't seem to be posted by the videos so I have to keep going back to the beginning of them to see what it was, if indeed it is displayed at the beginning, which I don't think mine is.

Isn't this a little awkward?

It's a little strange. Maybe they will put up titles and forums and the likes during the week?

Also, I just wanted to say...

WOW.

The quality of every entry this year is amazing! I don't know who I should vote for, it's going to be really hard this year!

 

[talenos]

Woo, they're up! Already seen some pretty good ones too. Maybe this will be the year they give out more than 2 contracts.

 

[Emergent]

Aww, they put the super-compressed version of mine up. =(

I hope I get a chance to put up the 190mb version, at least so people can see it.

 

[SAXhorizon]

Well I do not see mine up there. Mine was uploaded late(40 min) dude to upload Errors on the site..(sigh)...Well let me know if u guyz see a Video on here Called 'Welcome to San Andreas...I Hope i Can compete still...We put a lot of money, time, and work in to it...

 

[WoodyT]

Did everyone's images that they sent in get posted as the thumbnail? Put mine in with plenty of time and it's just a random, unflattering screen grab.

 

[The Josh]

Did everyone's images that they sent in get posted as the thumbnail? Put mine in with plenty of time and it's just a random, unflattering screen grab.

Same. They seemed to just forget about the whole thumbnail thing in the end. I posted ours into the thread body [http://www.escapistmagazine.com/forums/read/6.242509-The-Escapist-Film-Festival-2010-Josh-Chad-Cooperators]

 

[talenos]

Yeah, whatever program they used to pick our thumbnail, was probably the worst possible frame in our film. Heh.

 

[shadow946]

I feel bad for the guys with the entirely black thumbnail

EDIT - Rectified, you guys were quick!

 

[steverivers]

No longer! Refresh the page, they all have their thumbnails now

EDIT - i take it back, the one with the black thumbnail still has a black thumbnail heh

Otherwise, everyone who submitted one seems to have it up

 

[VictoryBoogie]

Holy H264 Codecs, Batman!

The quality's good this year, glad that it's a "competition" in every sense on the word. Then again, seems to be a few recurring elements. VideoCopilot and Scott Pilgrim, anyone?

EDIT: @Emergent Every entry is hyper-compressed. Seeing your glorious 720p HD 4GB file beeing smooshed down to 30-odd megs and run through a flash wrapper is heartbreaking to say the least, but it's that, or less entries. Viva la Compresión !

 

[talenos]

Doh, ours is not up yet. I hope they got it.

 

[steverivers]

Do you guys think MovieBob will do a review of what he thinks are the top entrees???

Be careful what you wish for, you may just get it....

http://www.escapistmagazine.com/forums/read/6.242527-Vote-Now-for-Film-Fests-Viewers-Choice

 

[talenos]

Looks like our entry, Carmen 1.0 made "First Cut"

http://www.escapistmagazine.com/content/4thAnnualFilmFestival/view?video=2357

Heh, can't wait to see what kind of commentary we get when they do ours.

 

[VictoryBoogie]

Dude, I missed last year's contest (and by extension every one thus far), what does First Cut mean?

I do hope it's a good thing.

 

[shadow946]

I'm kind of disappointed that there is no link to comment on the video pages.

 

[Emergent]

@VictoryBoogie: It got compressed from 190 to 16, and from standard def to.. something significantly less than that. But, err... thanks.

 

[Jimtopia]

I'm kind of disappointed that there is no link to comment on the video pages.

Same, I wonder if they'll add that at any point over the week.

Also (I think) I'm glad to have made first cut. I'm not sure what that means, but I hope it's good!

 

[Spinwhiz]

Missing comment link has come down from its halloween-fueled sugar high and should now show up.