one minute film

It's official! Workshops have already started for the One 

Minute Film Scholarship program, and our proposal was 

accepted! That means that I'll be writing here from 

time to time about the film's progress and fun stuff 

like that.

The first workshop was all about story, and after a few examples 

and talk about the mechanics of scriptwriting for film, we had a 

roundtable panel going over everyone's project individually. I'm 

the only one doing animation, but it looks like there's going to 

be a lot of great films being made.

Because I don't think I've mentioned it here yet, here's the 

basics on our project:

Kate and Bradbury: A hand-drawn animated short about the 

relationship between a kite and a bicycle.

When Kate, a free-wheeling bicycle, fails to propel herself up a hill, she becomes 

despondent. However, soon afterwards she comes across Bradbury the kite, 

who is having trouble catching a breeze. When the two make a connection, 

they learn that they just might be able to help each other out.

For our submission we sent in a brief summary of the plot and 

then rough storyboards, which I may post here eventually. 

My turn under the microscope at the roundtable was pretty 

painless; the main suggestion that I reveived was that some 

of the random "biking around" scenes could be shortened down 

and get right to the point (the hill), which I definitely agree 

with and will help with the time limit.

Tonight I go in for the first "Intro to 16mm" class, on which I 

will report back later.