PAH-FEST:Hollywood 2009
October 25 - November 1 in hollywood, California
Filmmakers Challenge
Los Angeles City College -- "Milagro"
Los Angeles Film School -- "Ghost"
Rules
THEME
What is a Miracle?
RULES OF ENGAGEMENT
Length: exactly 6 mins not including title and end credits
Title no more than 15 seconds
End Credits no more than 45 seconds
CAST
3 main characters
LOCATIONS
2 distinct neighborhoods
1 LA landmark
SPECIFIC SHOTS
2O second moving shot
1 mysterious POV (God's POV, rat's pov, etc)
1 dutch angle
SPECIFIC TIMELINE MOMENTS
At exactly 1:20 one of the main characters needs to become fixated on something nobody else sees or cares about.
At exactly 2:07 I want to see butter and it has to do something with the story at hand.
At exactly 3:33 we see something the main characters don¹t that could be a glimpse of a scene from another movies the audience is curious, but is immediately snapped back into your movie. (Example: A car goes by with two men fighting over one of those inflatable doughnuts to ease hemorrhoid pain, but nothing is said or made of it.)
At exactly 5:00 there;¹s need to be a "Grand Pause", introspective moment
MUSICAL SCORE
Solo Instrument only with special use of sound effects as form of music.

