20 May
2005

Fun Friday: How Many Robots Can You Name?

How even a couple of kids can make a film festival entry

Have you ever wondered how all those great filmmakers like George Lucas became "great"? By taking a camera and making a movie, like George did with THX-1138 (which was a USC student film project later expanded into a full film BTW).


So, what do you do with the kids around the house. How about giving them a digital camera (640x480 30fps preferred if you want DVDs) for a film festival. That's just what Ben Jolitz and Rebecca Jolitz did this spring, and their result is Bots: An exhausted teenager on the high school robotics team dreams of robots, But he's late for school! Will his sister get him up on time? A comedic homage to robots past and present. Near DVD format."


Done entirely using a Canon SD200 camera, their own scripting, acting, prop and effects skills, and using a beta of the ExecProducer FilmPro production storyboard, they assembled a complete movie in DVD high quality, Internet mp4, and flash over their Spring Break, ready for a film festival.


So I invite everyone to view Bots. And see if you can name all the robots we grew up with and loved.


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