Friday 28 October 2011

FLIP - Day 2

The FLIP festival started yesterday. But Day 1 of FLIP only had 3 events on and the general consensus among my friends were that they weren't interested and though I was interested in the OperaVox, I decided in the end it wasn't worth going to.


So Friday 29th October at FLIP was pretty good all-in-all. I arrived at 11am and got back home at 11pm. First there was the annual showreel review talk, this year chaired by Mick Foley. Reviewers included Barry Purves (Stop Motion Animator/Director), Glen Holberton (of Loose Moose Productions) & Michael Nagasaka (of Frontier Games). They had a discussion on the state of animation in todays world from each of their perspectives (which was mundanely fascinating at best) before granting their opinions on four individuals showreels. It was an interesting listen, and while very nice, the reviewers were appropriately critical and after talking to one of the applicants afterward, quite helpful. One point I was slightly confused by was Barry Purves commenting that a decent duration for a showreel is around 5 mins but it was of my previous understanding that snappier than that was better, at around 1 min. It was also brought up that a potential employer of an audience member used a "7 second test" where if he wasn't impressed in the first 7 seconds of a showreel, he'd turn off. A very informative session.




One of the events meticulously scheduled into the diary was the drinks and networking session where lager was provided (courtesy of one of the funders; Saint), and casual conversation was encouraged amongst the patrons. It's always hard to break away from the comfort zone that is your circle of friends but I did manage to talk to a couple people. Not as many as I wanted but met some good people nevertheless.


As well as throughout the day there was a wealth of short films shown in the 3 'Open Shorts' segments. Most of them fantastic, but of course there were some I didn't get. Notable films from Open Shorts 2 include "Das HausDir. David Buob, "The Skeleton Woman" Dir. Sarah Von Den Coom, "Flea and Fly" Dir. Fernando Miller. From Open Shorts 3 "Dead Bird" Dir. Trevor Hardy, "Plume" Dir. Barry Purves and particularly "Iluzia" Dir. Udi Asoulin & Uriah Naeh were great pieces of animation and film.




Overall, a positive experience, and it's pretty late so I'd better get off. Need enough sleep for Day 3, don't I.



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