Oh, Jason Eisener, what have you wrought?
Dartmouth cultural hotspot Alderney Landing, is putting the call out for entries to a Youth Horror Movie Trailer Competition.
If you’re between the ages 14-25, put together a horror movie trailer, three minutes maximum running time, for a fictitious horror movie. Submissions must be received no later than July 29 at 4pm. Applications will be reviewed by a juried panel of local industry professionals and artists, selected by Alderney Landing.
Entries will be judged based on the following criteria: content originality (quality of storyline and script), production (camera work, lighting and composition), image (focus, colour and lighting), sound quality (clarity, consistency of audio levels) and post-production (editing, transitions, pacing, continuity and flow). Presumably the judges will recognize that the best horror movies have a liberal relationship with sound quality, image and editing!
Click here for an application.
Applicants should submit their trailer on DVD (in AVI or MPEG), to Kim Farmer, Alderney Landing Theatre PO BOX 725, 2 Ochterloney Street, Dartmouth, NS B2Y 3Z3
This article appears in May 19-25, 2011.