Comments on: Feedback

By: another one

another one — Fri, 28 Apr 2006 00:32:01 +0000

Sorry for hijacking the thread but, no other place to go for this…

quote # bhaze
This is as close as I’ll get my ‘less than’ video to the homepage.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JPZ31ufCYdo
/quote

hehehe, it made me laugh. i like the joke. funny stuff…not profesionally funny(see post above) but still very funny.

By: another one

another one — Fri, 28 Apr 2006 00:22:08 +0000

quote Filmmaker
And you have to PAY to enter. Be grateful this is free and if you don’t like the submissions the screening committee picks, just don’t enter next time. Every filmmaker I know has submitted to a festival, gotten rejected and thought the selected films were terrible. You shrug it off, move on and keep making stuff. That’s the game.
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I’m not sure why would I have to be grateful?
I’m not a filmmaker. Not even close. But then again, this is not a Film festival. I understood it as a community project, lets have some fun and make some videos while we’re at it (or vice versa :) ) I would never submit my entry to any film festival, because i know my work is not up to the quality level of even the worst professional out there. But that’s why i have chosen to submit my idea here. As in: well, here’s what i came up with, how’s that? Am I dissapointed that my work hasn’t been seen – sure, but it’s not like i need prozac because of it. But that I should be GRATEFUL to FF for alowing me to so something on my free time – NOT.

I think this contest has, in the minds of lot of contestans, been redefined to a movie festival. Maybe this is normal to happen if you had really high hopes for your entry. I don’t know. After seing movie like “This is hot” i knew i had absolutely no chance of comming even close.

Let’s just have a beer/wine/juice/water and relax a bit. If you entered this as a professional, you should know how to accept defeat. If you entered for fun, just keep having fun. I know i am. Right now i’m amusing myself in seeeing when my work will finally, if ever, be posted.

I decided to blame all the problems ot the: us (the community) surprized the Flicks team with number of submissions so they couldn’t cope with it. hehehe…
Community 1:0 Flicks Team

Now make another contest and we’ll beat you again :P

Cheers all, I’m off to refresh the page to see if my flick got posted (a man’s gotta dream).

By: Flawed Logic

Flawed Logic — Thu, 27 Apr 2006 22:57:07 +0000

Yeah, except these are commercials, bro – not films. And they’ve already posted more than 10-20. Which one did you make?

By: Filmmaker

Filmmaker — Thu, 27 Apr 2006 21:37:21 +0000

Right, what I’m saying is that Firefox or the judges or someone should pick the top 10-20 and then just push those. Not sure which would make the cut, but it doesn’t really matter at this point, I think it would be better for Firefox and the random folks who visit the site who have nothing to do with the contest. Nobody is watching now because there’s too many, it’s overwhealming and the quality of the posted videos keeps going down. What do people have to pick one over the other to watch? The title? The thumbnail picture?

Also, I see this contest as kind of a film festival. Just because you worked really hard on your movie for free doesn’t mean the festival has to pick your submission to screen. Typically, a large film festival screens about 5-10% of the entries. And you have to PAY to enter. Be grateful this is free and if you don’t like the submissions the screening committee picks, just don’t enter next time. Every filmmaker I know has submitted to a festival, gotten rejected and thought the selected films were terrible. You shrug it off, move on and keep making stuff. That’s the game.

By: bhaze

bhaze — Thu, 27 Apr 2006 21:18:19 +0000

This is as close as I’ll get my ‘less than’ video to the homepage.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JPZ31ufCYdo