Are You An Epic Film Editor? Prove It and Win — Epic Editing Challenge at COLLECTIVE
By Jim Bask
The online artist community COLLECTIVE has just launched another new filmmaking contest to enable and challenge emerging filmmakers. If you haven’t visited COLLECTIVE yet, do it now.
COLLECTIVE is a community of passionate creatives changing the world one frame, pixel, and note at a time. Members live to unlock their potential by learning from each other.
As an exciting way to spread ideas and spark conversations about the creative process — and a regular thrill for its members — COLLECTIVE puts together exclusive challenges or members that are created and judged by its resident pros.
In this latest COLLECTIVE challenge, running July 28 to September 1, 2018, prove your skills by taking the Epic Editing Challenge. Your objective: cut a scene using the scripts and dailies from two film scenes for a chance to win some awesome creative tools from a prize pool worth over $10,000.
We’re teaming up with two highly respected filmmakers and educators
The contest was ideated by, and will be judged by, two of COLLECTIVE’s Resident Pros — Kris Truini and Sven Pape. They’re providing scripts and dailies from two film scenes from past projects they worked on — so COLLECTIVE member, artists like you, can take a shot to remold those scenes in your own vision.
Kris Truini is a director and cinema color expert who runs a YouTube channel based on the idea of free access to filmmaking education. The channel has over 250,000 subscribers and is a small step towards fulfilling Kris’s ambition of making filmmaking knowledge accessible to all.
Sven Pape is an A.C.E. Award nominated film editor who has cut for directors like James Cameron, James Franco, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, and Mark Webber, including the 2012 Sundance Film Festival favorite The End of Love. His storytelling-focused YouTube channel has over 150,000 subscribers who watch him work on cutting scenes. Sven’s latest film Alt-Right: Age of Rage was directed by Adam Bhala Lough and will hit theaters this August.
How to enter the Epic Editing Challenge
To get in on the fun, visit the Epic Editing Challenge contest page. You’ll start by signing up for COLLECTIVE, if you’re not already a member. Then download the dailies and script and your instructions to edit the footage into a final scene. There are two scenes from different films you can choose from; work on one or both scenes, and submit each of your unique edits to COLLECTIVE as a contest entry to win prizes. Each participant can only submit one version of each scene.
The whole point of the challenge is to see what the diverse talent among all the COLLECTIVE members will do differently, using their personal vision, references, attitudes, skills and approaches to editing. You’re free to stick to the script provided, or choose to ignore it. You can restructure the scene, eliminate or repeat the actor’s lines in any way you see fit.
