Outdoor Film Festival or simply OFF - is an annual review of short films. It is also called the Festival of street cinema. Its history began in 2014 - then the team of organizers set about trying to create a truly national event. This year it will be held for the fifth time. We explain why this year, you should definitely look to OFF.
1. You can visit for free
On the street festival movies do not need to buy a ticket. This means that any resident of the municipality, which will host the OFF, can view all movies for free software.
2. It is taking place in your town or village
Speaking of major festivals, we usually mean activities for residents and guests of Moscow, or at least in St. Petersburg. Outdoor Film Festival - an entirely different story.
In 2019 Festival of street cinema will take over a thousand settlements. Perhaps, too, have in your list. This year, a series of festivals held from June 1st to September 28th. OFF If your city has passed, set a reminder for 2020 th.
3. Arranged in unusual venues
The third principle OFF Festival - a choice open-air spaces. Rooms can not accommodate everyone, and want to watch movies in the summer not in stuffy theaters, but rather, in the parks and on the quays.
4. Movie you will not tire
OFF - Short Film Festival. This means that even if a movie you do not like scary, wait until the next need will be short-lived. Average timing of pictures - 10 minutes.
In the main competition program of 10 films announced. Some famous actors are removed, for example, this year will show a movie with Alexei Serebryakov and Alexander Palem.
Outside of the competition program at the Festival of street cinema shows short films of old age. The list can be explored on website festival.
5. You can see the unusual and experimental films
One of the experimental contest called "OPA! suddenness of art. " A special commission has selected among hundreds of applications eight scenarios, which directed a short film finalists. This commission included actress Irina and Julia AUG Gorbachev, the author of "Legends of number 17," Nikolai Lebedev, film critic of "Komsomolskaya Pravda" Stas Tyrkin and mobile film director Maxim Mussel.
competition concept implies two rules. Firstly, every movie has to be a sudden plot twist - the so-called moment of "Opa!". And secondly, all work must be taken on a smartphone OPPO Reno 10x Zoom.
It is believed that movies captured on your smartphone - is low-grade amateur videos. But in fact, the mobile cinema is able to convey the same as that created by using professional equipment. You can disagree, but will have to contend with the pioneers of mobile shooting: directors Zack Snyder ( "Justice League" "Batman vs. Superman"), Sean Baker ( "Mandarin", "project" Florida "") and Steven Soderbergh ( "Ocean's Eleven," "Luck Logan ").
Participants in the "OPA! The art of surprise "shared photographs from the shooting and told us about the Challenge and prospects of mobile cinema as a whole.
Michael Shulaev
The director of the film "My day."
Previously, we had never filmed a movie on a smartphone, so when we approved, at once began to think of something. It turned out that it is not necessary to invent anything.
Shooting mobile film is different from a conventional survey. Now smartphones give a picture quality that the program with manual settings and a set of filters, you can get a great result and reduce equipment costs.
The only problem was the timing. After making a selection of the results it was necessary to put together a team quickly, keep the actors and find a location.
On a smartphone can be removed and a full meter. Of course, some nuances like the blurring of the object on the background of smartphones still inferior cameras, though not surprised, if a solution to this problem has come up.
Thanks to modern smartphones one can remove the film, put in YouTube and express themselves. The main thing - it's history. Not even the idea, because a lot of ideas and people who can develop them, much less. If you have a history and a good smartphone, you can make a film. Not a masterpiece of cinematography, but understandable, user friendly movie for people.
Anton Yashkin
The director of the film "And maybe it's fate?"
I decided to participate in the competition for several reasons. Firstly, the movie shooting on a smartphone - an interesting experiment and directing the call. Second, the street festival film - it is a platform with an audience from different cities and villages. In the audience a different perspective on life, experience and age. Can you imagine what it is checking for lice? And thirdly, it is my directorial film debut. Before that I was shooting commercials and music videos.
The biggest limitation when shooting on a smartphone was the lack of interchangeable lens and smaller than on professional cameras, dynamic range.
But this experience will certainly be useful for directors, cameramen and actors. For the director an opportunity for bold experiments. And the actors in a scene appear more life: Smartphone in hands of the operator they hesitate less than the bulky camera.
No matter what you shoot. It is important - how and what to shoot. The viewer is an important story. If she does not care, all will be all the same. In my case, the approval of the script before putting the film took 20 days. In such times, neither I nor many members of the crew have not worked.
Smartphones have already reached the point where, perhaps, can not yet compete with serious videoapparatam, but give decent quality pictures. For example, OPPO Reno 10x ZoomWhereby the contestants did their work supports the shooting of 48-megapixel camera in the resolution of 2 160p at 60 frames per second. Additional feature model, which was previously available Professional camera with telephoto lenses - a 10-fold increase without loss of quality.
In this film we see the effects level by Michael Bay and mounting style of Guy Ritchie's films, but here it is not necessary. The main thing in the mobile cinema, as in any other, the script and the acting.
Michael Shulaeva film "My Day" - participant of the Festival of street cinema in 2019
View movies of the program "OPA! suddenness of art "and participate in online polls on the contest page.
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6. The winner is determined viewers
In competitions Outdoor Film Festival winner is determined not by the professional jury, and ordinary viewers. After each film guests lit lanterns smartphones, and then a special commission considers what work is to "collect" the largest number of lights. Do not you just are giving voice and increases the chances of talented directors to receive a prize, but also assess how many people agree with you.
7. There is not just a movie
In each place the festival takes its traits: film screening accompanied by various activities and performances, and in the territory of OFF can be located and fair gastromarkety. Here, for example, a photo with one of the festivals in 2018: guests entertained fakir.
This year in Moscow planned lectures with the participation of representatives of the leading film schools, and will be held in St. Petersburg performances of the musical group "Dunaevskii Orchestra» and the most incendiary jazz band in town - Sweet Hot Jazz Band.
Check the calendar of the Festival of street cinema - perhaps he will soon be in your city. August 31 festival will take place in the park "charge" in Moscow on the territory of the space "Sevkabel Port" in St. Petersburg. The entrance is free.
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