UK FILM-MAKERS: Do you want £5000?

**Cykotic** · 17-May-2006

The Horror Channel (UK version) has launched a competition called CUT, in which you must make a 2 minute horror movie. First prize is £5000, but the runner up films also get the chance to be screened on the channel and at a cinema showing!!! http://www.horrorchannel.co.uk/ for more details...

**Dawg** · 18-May-2006

The rules doesn't seem to specify that.

And only 2 minutes for a short film?! Geez Louise!

Dawg

**DjfunkmasterG** · 18-May-2006

Originally Posted by Dawg

The rules doesn't seem to specify that.

And only 2 minutes for a short film?! Geez Louise!

Dawg

No Kidding... I couldn't even make a 2 minute horror film. Plus the links don't work for the rules either.

**MinionZombie** · 19-May-2006

Sweet as, I think I'll be able to wangle a short film I'm working on now into a short 2 minute version (the overall film will be 10 to 15 minutes), you have to allow pop up windows for that site and then it'll come up.

*edit*

Ah buggery, that's no good, I won't start filming until after the 16th of June - the closing date. Two bloody months? Stingy! Most of these sort of competitions give much more time than that ... I could look at other shorts I've done, but I doubt I could pull out anything worthwhile, which would be a waste of a DVD or miniDV.

**Dawg** · 20-May-2006

Originally Posted by MinionZombie

Sweet as, I think I'll be able to wangle a short film I'm working on now into a short 2 minute version (the overall film will be 10 to 15 minutes), you have to allow pop up windows for that site and then it'll come up.

*edit*

Ah buggery, that's no good, I won't start filming until after the 16th of June - the closing date. Two bloody months? Stingy! Most of these sort of competitions give much more time than that ... I could look at other shorts I've done, but I doubt I could pull out anything worthwhile, which would be a waste of a DVD or miniDV.

You wouldn't want to spend 50 cents for a blank DVD or $5.00 for a MiniDV tape when you can win 5000 pounds? I would!

But anyway, unless you are really, really good, 2 minutes to tell a story is a little bit too short. Maybe someone will surprise us?

Dawg

**MinionZombie** · 21-May-2006

Well at the moment I have zero income bar a few expenses I get from work experience, but there's always something else to spend that dribble of money on, such as fixing my laptop. So I've got to be very careful with my spending, that even means reigning in on buying DVD-Rs and miniDV tapes.

Besides, I'd have to severely adapt one of my existing films, which run for like 15 mintues, down into 2, which would just make a pretty crap mess, so there's no point in bothering cos I definately wouldn't win. I did enter a competition this year though over at Yamgo.com, they liked my entry, hopefully that's a good omen, it'd be awesome to be in the top ten for that. Only a month and a bit left to go before they announce who those top ten are...