The Porcelain Unicorn

[Iwillnevergiveup]

This summer, Philips and the renowned director/producer, Ridley Scott, launched a global filmmaker competition dubbed the: 'Tell It Your Way Film Making Contest'.

The entrants were given total freedom of expression and could take up any theme they wanted. But there were two rules in the contest to qualify for the prize that were strictly enforced:
1) Only six lines of dialogue were allowed in the film thus challenging the film maker to show rather than to tell the story. This insured that the film submissions would portray a story graphically keeping the elements in the story visual.
2) The other rule concerned brevity and challenged the film maker with a time constraint for conveying the story. Any film submitted in the contest had to be no longer than a total of three minutes.


Finally after the judging ended, this was the prize-winning entry in the, "Tell It Your Way" contest. It is entitled, 'The Porcelain Unicorn.'


http://www.porcelainunicorn.com/

Better link below.

[Iwillnevergiveup]

1. Better link?

http://www.porcelainunicorn.com/

[Iwillnevergiveup]

5. OK link in the OP, too. n/t

[Cerridwen]

2. Wow! Powerful. You already saw your link doesn't work. You have an extra

period in the link in your OP. You have dot dot com

Do you have time to edit OP?

Thanks for posting this here.

[Iwillnevergiveup]

3. Thanks, Cerridwen

I'd hate for one extra dot to cause people to miss this incredible video. FIXED!

[Cerridwen]

4. Kinda what I was thinking.

:)

I'd hate for someone to miss it just because they're reading glasses are in worse shape than mine.

[Quantess]

6. Wonderful!

[pa28]

7. Outstanding. Great idea for a competition too.

Here are the finalists and semi-finalists.

http://www.youtube.com/philipscinema

[BeHereNow]

13. Just watched the finalists too-

incredible how each director produced such different
and wonderful shorts with the same six lines of dialogue.
Wonderful stuff!
BHN

[Iwillnevergiveup]

14. I can see why this one won

I watched a couple of others, and they didn't come close.

[LadyHawkAZ]

8. Loved everything BUT the Mitt Romney campaign ad

that popped up across the video.

[dmr]

9. Powerful video. I'm still crying.

Thank you for posting this.
:hi:

[Iwillnevergiveup]

10. You are welcome, dmr

Hope it goes viral - so inspirational and so what life should be about, yes?

:hi:

[Iwillnevergiveup]

11. Antidote

for the artist who shot his dog and filmed it!

[BeHereNow]

12. Wow! Why can't directors like this person make major movies?

The crap coming out of Hollywood these days proves
that the art of story telling is foreign to the financial
backers and studio execs...
Hope we see more from this director!
Thanks for posting this!
BHN

[underpants]

15. Great movie in only 3:02

[RZM]

16. That was very powerful

I feel bad for saying this, but when I read the subject line, I honestly thought the post was going to be about bidets.

The more TV and film I watch, the more I realize how hard it is to tell a story effectively without lots of dialogue. Thanks for the post!

[Iwillnevergiveup]

17. I thought it was going to be a cartoon

:blush:

[RZM]

18. Even when I saw it was a movie, I wasn't expecting that subject matter

It's just a well done piece.

[Iwillnevergiveup]

19. Yes, I believe

it resonates timelessly. Glad you liked it, too.

[Iwillnevergiveup]

20. I'm givin' this a kick

because I believe more people would like to see it and because it is so awesome and worthwhile.

http://www.porcelainunicorn.com /