Call for Filmmakers-Indyish’s Assembly Film/Music Relay

Looking for a fun filmmaking challenge? Indyish’s latest film and music project, The Assembly, offers a collaborative assembly-line style experiment, designed to stretch the scope of your work and inspire new connections.

Writing teams will be given a common starting point, the original sheet music for a song by a local music group. Their challenge is to write a 10 minute film script using at least five lyrical or thematic elements from the song.

Each script will be given to a team of filmmakers, which could include directors, editors, actors, costume designers, and visual artists. Your film team will shoot and edit a script and pass it on to a sound team to create the original soundtrack for your work. Films can recreate the work of scriptwriters or change it in significant ways.

As the project moves forward, passing from hand to hand, teams will make notes in a group script using the collaborative writing program, Celtx. Certain creative decisions, such as dialogue changes and location information, will only be added in at specific stages of the films’ development while others will change many times with each new team. Celtx will allow you to have a keen sense of the intentions of the writers’ whose work you are building upon. It maintains every version of the project, creating a unique document of creative transformation throughout The Assembly.

The final films will be screened at Friendship Cove on Saturday, March 10th with a live soundtrack by the musicians involved.

The batons are handed out to scriptwriters on February 10th with a week for each stage of the project.

Space is limited and will be determined by the number of applicants at each stage. Sign up must be completed by February 7th at which point the final teams will be announced.

You will receive your script Saturday, February 17th and have until Friday, February 23 to shoot and edit your film.

Things you must do:

-Adapt the script you are given into a roughly 10 minute film.

-Use Celtx to make changes to the original script and communicate with your team members. You can add anyone you wish as a collaborator on your part of the project.

-Put your finished film onto the Indyish ftp server (in uncompressed avi format) and copy your entire finalcut project folders (or whatever program you’re using) onto the ftp server to share with team members and musicians.

-Be willing to have your film published on an Indyish dvd documenting the project.

Interested filmmakers can email: Tessa@ Indyish.com

All info on the project will be made available at: www.indyish.com/events