DAD – Dames and Detectives
MAM – Monsters and Mayhem

Every year the difference between Theme and Genre needs to be explained.

And this year it doesn’t have to be me to do the explaining.

Night Of Adventure: Every one of the films would be set at night, be it in the city, a rural setting, etc. The common theme in each of them however would be the time in which the story takes place, ie. after dark. It would afford filmmakers an opportunity to experiment with different lighting techniques than they typically do and a wide variety of genres are well-suited to such a theme be it horror, film noir, science fiction, crime, romance, etc.

Habits And Addictions

It will present some of the known habits and addictions in the world, and some not known.

EPIC – Epic Plot and Intense Cinematography
FEAR – Fear Excitement Angst Revenge

I liked the horror ideas, we have so many halloween spoofs but an actual horror film with good characters that is outstanding is missing in my opinion. I know we have good films in a scary obscure mood, but I mean a classic horror film that might even have splatter elements.

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I think Littlebricks ideas are really nice. They’re simple, well-themed, and have probably the “snappiest” acronyms in this thread.

“RevMen” wrote: Every year the difference between Theme and Genre needs to be explained.

Agreed, I don’t think it’d be a good idea to have a genre-themed contest as all previous ones have been based on theme. A common theme results in an interesting variety of films, instead of, say, ten sci-fi movies.

“Littlebrick” wrote: I have a feeling we need to do the snazzy acronym we do every year.

I liked the acronym thing, however I do not think a concept should be abandoned simply because it doesn’t fit with any cute, pronounceable acronyms. btw, I like ICE and ABC. MoM isn’t bad either, but I don’t think the acronym fits.

As for my suggestions, it is my opinion that not only most, but nearly all brickfilms are made purely to entertain. I think it might be an interesting concept to base a contest around the premise that films should have a serious message of some sort; this can be almost anything from a cute moral lesson (a la some of the Words of Wisdom contest entries) to a political message and even if the subject is serious the film itself certainly would not have to be. Some ideas:

CAUSE – Communicating A Uniquely Satirical Examination: This is a somewhat lame attempt at filling out the acronym, but there aren’t many satirical brickfilms, likely because good satire is difficult to write. I think a satire-themed contest could be interesting.

SAM – Sharing A Message: See above.

-Smeagol

TRIP – Turningpoint Reconsideration Introspection Prospect
BOP – Borderline Obsession Paranoia

Brainstorming, we need lots of brainstorming,

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