Please don’t waste time discussing alternative titles for the contest, Josh has decided on that one and is not likely to change his mind.

Also, please ensure you read all of his oroginal post and the entire thread before asking questions for clarity, as you may find your question has already been answered.

(Actually, if they don’t read the thread, they won’t see that point! It’s a bit like leaving a sign for a blind man to read!)

For copyright free music, there was a whole host of posts around the time of HAT. Could someone edit the thread and repost it as a sticky in this forum?

I think this is an excellent theme, absolutely wide open for subject matter and storylines. I am really looking forward to what the community will bring forward for this contest Josh, well done. My usual offer of help applies.

Uh oh….a search for HAV on Google reveals the second link as ‘Bonsai on the web’ – http://www.hav.com/bonsai

Another one reveals that HAV stands for Hepatitis A Virus – a debilitating disease lasting for several months.

Doctor: I’m afraid you have got HAV
Patient: Is that bad?
Doctor: You will be severely debilitated by the need to animate for a few months, but the prognosis is good. I can see that after June 13th there will be a reduction in the debilitation, but an increase in anxiety levels, but there should be some relief in July when your final test results are announced.

Hav is also a Japanese band.

Wow, ape hav hat? Except in the wrong order… Darn, I really need a Delorean.

I am definately entering…… I could use the film im making at he moment for it so it ties in quite well. (I havn’t started filming yet but…) yeh great im in

Just to make sure, is this a non-exclusive OR? Is it ok to portray good and bad equally in one film?

Good and Evil can both be betrayed. It would be difficult to show one without the other. However, you must choose either a hero or a villain to be the focus of your film.

Time limits? Deadines?

These things are covered in the first post.

I’d still like to know if entries have to be unreleased, I cannot find anything explicit in the first post about that.

Yes, they must remain unreleased until the submission deadline. I didn’t state it in the first post but it’s on the forthcoming contest page.

How does one post a movie somewhere so that it is available to the judges and yet remains ¨unreleased¨? If this has already been covered somewhere, my apologies; but I would still appreciate it if someone point me in the right direction.

How does one post a movie somewhere so that it is available to the judges and yet remains ¨unreleased¨?

The film remains hidden from the judges until the deadline as well. Before the deadline, you must upload your film somewhere and provide me with a link to it. Only I will see all of the films before the deadline. If needed, I can provide you with server space to upload. For contests I always put all of the films on the brickfilms server.

A maximum size of 3 megabytes (3072kb) per minute.

Realmedia is another codec than DivX. I think that’s a no.