Encounters Film Festival

Over the summer holidays, we (Cameron, Damo and I) submitted our animated documentary, AfterLives, to festivals around the world. We got screened at a few places, Encounters being one of them! We were also invited to go watch our film being screened at Bristol too in September! (We only got two free passes so we split the third, this made me realise most teams are represented by a director-producer combo). 

That's us!

What I learnt:

• I quickly learnt how differently films are judged and presented compared to animation since animation has a whole different set of limitations. However, I did notice what all of them had in common was a captivating narrative, regardless of medium and pace (eg. stories in VRChat, black and white films and isometric CGI), 
• Also tried the "if you're nervous about networking, arrive early" method, managed to network with a few film students,
• The Opening Shot is very important - sets the tone and pace of the film and introduces characters, 
• Went to all the Q&A sessions for the animated films to learn about the process and obstacles behind the making of short films
• Crowdfunding, how it works, where to draw the line, don't promise the audience things you can't deliver,
• Also promoted AfterLives to a film student who was curious about our lanyards (with my rusty social skills).

What could be improved:

• Up on the big screen, I noticed the subtitles I made were massive, I could've submitted a different version so the subtitles would match the screen size.