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WILL NOT BE ENTERED INTO THIS CONTEST.

I'm in. Were do we enter it? Youtube?
And Smeagol,I need to ask you a couple of questions on youtube. Look me up.

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Wait 3? You still need to make 2!

Yeah.  But please understand people, "Avant-Garde" does not simply mean whatever you want it to mean.  If you aren't confident you understand it perhaps a reading of the wikipedia article linked in the first post might be in order.  A few innovative bits of animation don't make a film avant-garde, at least not in the sense we're looking for; it's going to take something unique and probably somewhat "out there" to fair well in this contest.  An entry to this contest could be an excellent short film and still place very poorly in the contest if it isn't avant-garde.

Smeagol can you give example of a story that would fit the theme

I'll let you know if I find any particularly good examples.  Basically experimental, innovative types of music and writing often fall in this category.  I would point out that while there are some tendencies in the genre you would not exactly want to mimic somebody else's avant-garde storytelling or it would sort of kill the concept of uniqueness and originalty.  Google may be a good resource.  This passage is also interesting:

Essentially Butor's idea was to reconsider the form of a novel, writing it in the format of an encyclopedia rather than a standard narrative story.  There are infinite possibilities here, but the key is that entries should do something we don't anticipate, in a good way.  Consider all the standards we assume for a short film, and then understand that very few of these standards really need to be followed for the contest.  A few examples of conventions you are free to break:

• The aspect ratio is the same through the whole film, and it's 4:3, 16:9, or 2.35:1.  The film's frame is a horizontally oriented rectangle.

• The frame rate is the same through the whole movie, most likely 15 fps or 24 fps.

• The video is either in black and white, or full RGB color.

• There is a visual video component to the film at almost all times.

• The film has a story, with a beginning, middle, and end.  Usually presented in that order.

• The environment of the brickfilm is mostly built of LEGO and posterboard.

• The film only shows us one camera angle at a time.

• There is only one possible way to watch the film -- it consists of a single video file that is viewed from start to finish.

• The film is almost entirely LEGO animation, well above the required 50%.

• The film has recognizable "characters," who speak in normal human language and are depicted as minifigures.

Just about anything that is not mandated by the guidelines is something you can reconsider.

For the Bricks in Motion major 2010 competition this sounds like a big art-house [censored]fest.
There are not many film makers that will get this to work at a level expected.
This would be much better as a simple Ani-Exerciser task.
I'd much rather the theme was "Thriller". Not many Brickfilms scare the audience, maybe they should. Or a Musical would be fun.

Last edited by Sméagol (September 10, 2009 (08:18pm))

The BiM Contest themes are not meant to be genre-specific, as that would be incredibly limiting to what the director can do with their film. The theme is mostly a way of guiding the storylines of potential films, but still leaves the director the ability to choose what kind of film they want to make.

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This is so hard to think of a decent idea, I've been playing around with ideas about the order of the story, pretty much breaking the "The film has a story, with a beginning, middle, and end.  Usually presented in that order." point Sméagol made. I also thought about an interactive java film kind of thing where you are the minifig, kind of like a video game kind of thing, but a few tests have put that idea on the backburner, until I know that we're not going on holiday this Summer, becuase it's gonna take a lot of time.

This is going to be a real challenge.