Rootclip News

You might not have noticed that Rootclip.com is hosting two contest voting periods this week. We encourage you to vote and comment on both to support aspiring filmmakers.

Rootclip has some incredible, fantastic, and awe-inspiring submissions in the final round of their film Chance Encounter. These films are all amazing in their own way, and we need everybody to help us pick the best one. Filmmakers in this competition are competing for the $2000 Grand Prize and ultimate bragging rights!

Click here to see the videos and vote for Chance Encounter’s final winner!

Also, Rootclip has gone to colllege and is hosting the University of Tennessee Knoxville 2008 Fall Film Project. These future filmmakers need you to weigh in with your opinion and votes. Please give them support and go check out their excellent films.

Click here to see the videos and vote for the UTK 2008 Fall Film Project’s Chapter 2 Winner!

If you are feeling left out by all this action, and now have the urge to get in on the filmmaking action, we have your fix. Rootclip.com’s newest competition, Doctor Frank is currently underway and taking submissions. The latest contest revolves around a mad scientis named Doctor Frank, his assistant Igor Johnson, and a rather ordinary switch that opens up endless possibilities.

Click here on more details regarding the new Rootclip.com contest – Doctor Frank!

Thanks everybody for your support of Rootclip.com, and good luck to everybody competing this weekend!

Rootclip.com was created to give filmmakers, writers, actors and anybody who just likes to watch movies the ability to collaborate on a video project. It’s a new approach to collaborative filmmaking. Rootclip team members create a short video clip or “Rootclip” to start the story. You watch the video, then shoot your own rendition of what should happen next in less than 2 minutes. Once you’ve created your video, upload it to Rootclip.com during the submission period and compete for votes against the videos from other users.

We’re pleased to announce the launch of the first in the Doctor Frank Rootclip.com contest series. The new storyline revolves around an experiment and an awe-inspiring switch (or not). We think this story has the most creativity potential so far, and are super stoked to see what all you creative Rootclip submitters can come up with to finish the story.

A new story, and new prizes too:

Grand Prize is a $2,000.00 VISA Gift Card and a Porta-Brace SS-2 Side Sling Pack, Retail Value $199.

Chapter winners 2-5 will recieve a $250 VISA Gift Card, a RichardSolo.com Backup Battery for iPhone / iPod, Retail Value $49.95, Boston Bill Sunglasses, Retail Value $30, and The DV Rebel’s Guide: An All-Digital Approach to Making Killer Action Movies on the Cheap by Stu Maschwitz, Retail Value of $44.99. (ARV: $374.94).

To help with story flow this round, we sugest breaking up the chapters with this general outline:

• Chapter 1: Introduction
• Chapter 2: Conflict
• Chapters 3 & 4: Rising Tension
• Chapter 5: Climax
• Chapter 6: Resolution

Also people, take it in any direction you want, but try not to mortally wound the good Doctor Frank if possible. We’re thinking about having his experiments become a more regular feature on the site.

Many thanks to Les Lanphere, better known as killerrobotninja, and his team for putting this together for us. We hope you like it as much as we do!

Good luck everybody, and we can’t wait to see all the crazy directions that you can take this story!

To enter, submit your videos here.

Congratulations are in order for Ya’Ke Smith, one of our esteemed Rootclip.com judges!

Ya’Ke’s film The Second Coming, a narrative short about an estranged father who returns home to make amends with his son, has been selected to screen at the Urbanworld Film Festival, Sept 10-14 in New York City.

The film previously won the HBO Short Film Award at the American Black Film Festival, was nominated for a Student Academy Award and made it national broadcast debut on HBO.

To learn more about Ya’Ke’s films visit his website at ExodusFilmWorks.com.

And if you’re in the New York area come out and show support for his film. Please visit UrbanWorld.org for dates and times.

JakusB has won Chapter 4 of Chance Encounter with their entry Unwelcomed Help. Congratulations and good work JakusB!

Again, this round had some intense competition with Tony’s entry Back in Black: Out of Time, bryceanderic’s entry True Colors, and a comedic sping with Dynomar’s submission Homerun.

Great work by everybody this round! Thanks for your patience while we tallied the last judge votes coming in over the holiday weekend.

Just a reminder that JakusB, FungusRidden and joshutk are ineligible to compete until the final chapter, so we need your submissions next round!

JakusB you’ve won a $250 VISA Gift Card, a really cool Balance Beam from Trig Industries, Retail Value $249.50, a “Video for the Web” training DVD by VASST, Retail Value $80, and The DV Rebel’s Guide: An All-Digital Approach to Making Killer Action Movies on the Cheap by Stu Maschwitz, Retail Value of $44.99.

Also, JakusB is now eligible to compete in the final chapter for the $2,000.00 Cash Grand Prize.