Microsoft and Triggerstreet.com are sponsoring an online movie-making contest. Dubbed the Ultimate Video Relay, it is a collaborative competition in which videographers have to build upon work submitted by other videographers.
Not sure if you are interested? Log into the contest website and watch "The Cube", the already completed first episode of the series you will be asked to finish. It is silly story about a worker in an office cubicle who is handed a black cube with undefined powers that he is supposed to carry to an address elsewhere in his city.
If you take the bait and decide to enter the competition, you will need to join Triggersteet (a free online community for unrepresented screenwriters and short film directors), log into an existing Triggerstreet account and download the software used to create and submit (by May 19th) a script that carries the story forward.
Six winning scripts will be chosen by Triggerstreet members. Each winner will be given a Falcon DRX laptop, Sony HDR-SR11 (Specs, ) Handycam, Pinnacle Studio editing software, and of course a copy of Windows Vista Ultimate and asked to bring their script to life. One winning film will be chosen from out of the six and posted online and the competition begins all over again with the search for the perfect Act III script (by July 21).
One interesting tidbit about this competition is that Kyle Newman the pro who was asked to write and direct Act I, won a similar competition (the Coca-Cola Refreshing Filmmaker's Award) back at the start of his own career.
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