Week 4: Film Festival Spotlight

 

1. Week 4: Film Festival Spotlight

   • Highlight an upcoming film festival and discuss the filmmaking process.

   Today I'm writing about my latest goal.  I'm making animated video shorts that I'll compile to enter into this film festival, Voices with Impact.

    Each short will revolve around a few key mental health related issues. The first one was made with Adobe express.

    

   Here you can see all the winners of the filmmaking award; I'm really looking forward to seeing Sue Morgan's because I suspect hers might be the most evolved.

   https://www.voiceswithimpact.com/

    

   I applied to this, too but didn't expect to win because I had not figured it out in time.

    

   Here's my first short:
   https://youtu.be/-98sWFuSsWc?si=1j25DNYu1noqPaNd

   It's based off of a Quora question I answered that day.
   https://www.quora.com/Is-it-possible-for-someone-without-knowledge-of-psychiatry-to-diagnose-someone-with-schizophrenia-or-other-mental-disorders-based-solely-on-written-words/answer/Sandra-Cheng

    

   I just inserted the video for fun. Maybe it's because I'm not sure if I'll actually enter a film into the voices with impact thing, especially without my usual Adobe Creative suite access. Hmm...
   
   I'd also like to make a goal of cleaning up my place for the next three weeks straight before deciding this- but at the end of those 3 weeks, I'll hopefully have come up with a more solid strategy for the film. I'll pitch the idea to my backer(s) and if they like it, I'll probably purchase the creative cloud for one more month before the deadline to keep myself a little more sane during this period, rather than having to install and learn any new and less than ideal freeware.  While I have some confidence that I can pull something together with Canva and the like, I don't really believe I'll have the confidence to share it with anyone without access to more tools.