Sonda’s cousin, Nick Hollensbe, is one of the people behind this new website. I actually think the potential is huge. Needless to say I would love to see what Daren, Dorf, Rick, Becky, Sonda and I could come up with for this…
Why Should I Care?
How does $500 for winning a chapter or an all-expense paid trip to the Traverse City Film Festival sound?
Even though we think it’s pretty cool we don’t really expect you to care much about Rootclip out of the kindness of your heart. To that end, we thought we’d make it a little more interesting.
The Grand Prize Winner (that’s you if you win the final chapter) gets an all expense paid trip to the Traverse City Film Festival on August 1-3, 2008 where you’ll meet with award-winning documentary filmmaker Michael Moore (yes, that Michael Moore) and see the debut of the full Rootclip film.
Even if you don’t win the grand prize, you can still clean up nicely. Chapter winners (that’s you if you get the most votes for your chapter submission) win a $500 VISA Gift Card.
Not too shabby, huh?
The Rootclip Basics
We create a short video clip or “Rootclip” to start the story. You watch our video, then shoot your own rendition of what should happen in the next one minute. Once you’ve created your video, upload it to Rootclip.com during the submission period and compete for votes against the videos from other users. Gain the most “thumbs up” votes during the voting period and your video becomes the next chapter in the story.
Clip Notes
- Keep submissions close to 60 seconds.
- Maintain character consistency through wardrobe.
- End on a cliffhanger.
- Make it as funny or as serious as you want.
- Umm…Don’t know what to put here, but 5 is a nice round number.
I would like to win this just for the chance to meet Micheal Moore. I am sure I could come if a few things to discuss with him. Nick was saying they had been hoping people would take a more comical approach to the submissions, but as you can most are fairly serious. I think the funnest part would be trying to include a ton of subtle humor based on the absurdity of it all.
June 9, 2008 at 10:57 am |
As cool as that sounds, Michael Moore is one of the last people on earth I want to meet. And, I can’t write.