Lost Video Island

cagedfreedom · Expert Vidder Joined: 24 Feb 2008 Posts: 1855

Awesome idea! I may enter this month depends on what books cross my mind haha
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Im1oftheOceanic6 · Expert Vidder Joined: 23 Jun 2008 Posts: 3705

I have a few questions to make sure I understand the rules.

Are we allowed to use children's books?

We can use a book even if it hasn't been made into a movie, right?

This is going to be a tought contest. I've read some great books and I've had several that brought Lost to mind but I never thought about making them into a video.I'll have to get busy figuring out what book to use.

Macaila

Charmed_Charlee · Posted: Fri May 01, 2009 8:36 pm Post subject:

Hey Macaila, yeah it's fine to use both childrens books and books which have been made into a movie

Im1oftheOceanic6 · Expert Vidder Joined: 23 Jun 2008 Posts: 3705

Thanks for the clarification.

I thought if I found a young childrens book that fit with Lost I might be able to tell a complete story because the book would not be very long so therefore easier to do a shorter video.

I have an idea for a book that has one scene in it that I think could be an interesting Lost video.

I'm glad we can choose between telling the whole story of a book in a video or just using a few scenes from the book to make a video.

There are alot of great books out there so I hope I can figure out which one would work best for a video.

I have one quick question.If I choose to only do a scene from a book but I choose the final scene should I post in the videoes description that the video may imply how the actual book ends and therefore may spoil the book?

Macaila

rbexter93 · Expert Vidder Joined: 24 Mar 2006 Posts: 3270

Great idea

So if we choose to do the whole story do we have to include every event or just the main ones? I'm almost certain I'm going to do The Host as I have some awesome ideas for fitting it with Lost.
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Charlies_Innocence · Posted: Fri May 01, 2009 11:42 pm Post subject:

Question - Can we make it like a trailer for the book instead of showing specific scenes?

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SassyLostie2 · Posted: Fri May 01, 2009 11:48 pm Post subject:

littleton_pace · Posted: Sat May 02, 2009 1:51 am Post subject:

well, as you can see, there are more questions so it'll be in one big post

So Macaila, Becca and Elyse, we'll chat and get back to you all soon!

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SawyerLittleton · Posted: Sat May 02, 2009 9:14 am Post subject:

WOW that's so exciting!!

So just to make myself clear ( I know I'm stupid xD) I choose one of my favourite books (for example..Harry Potter or something) and try to tell the story in my video? Well thats hard but I'll try. And is it bad if my book already GOT a movie?
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rbexter93 · Expert Vidder Joined: 24 Mar 2006 Posts: 3270

I have another query.

In my book, a character jumps down an elevator shaft but I wanted to set that portion of the story on the island. Could I take creative licence and change it to a cliff or does it have to be exactly as in the book?
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littleton_pace · Posted: Sat May 02, 2009 1:48 pm Post subject:

Sorry it took so long to respond guys but we hope we answered all your questions

Allie - Sorry, but since you'd be using another "Dracula" in your video, even though it's not from the Dracula movie, that's not allowed because we're asking for the losties to play the characters

Although if you want to use scenes of the Lost actors in other shows/movies, Claire in Brick for example, then that's fine

Im1oftheOceanic6 - That's up to you!

If you think you're vid might spoil readers of the book, then it's up to you if you want to warn them

But it won't count for/against you in the competition.

Becca - Just using the main events in the story would suffice if you're going to re-tell the whole story

And since we're asking to re-tell the story, we'd like it to be as it is in the book and not change plotlines. Although there is a few elevator scenes when the guys go down to the hatch in the season 4 finale ;P

SawyerLittleton - Yes, that's right

No, it's not bad that you're book is a movie, but if it has been, you can't use footage from that movie in your video

Elyse - Sorry, we're not going to allow trailers because title cards would be helping to tell the story and we want to see it re-told with our losties

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Charlies_Innocence · Posted: Sat May 02, 2009 3:50 pm Post subject:

All right, thanks for answering my question!

I'll go try and think of what I could do, cuz I really like the idea for this contest!

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SawyerLittleton · Posted: Sat May 02, 2009 4:01 pm Post subject:

I have a book and my only problem is: It takes place in the streets of new york...can i replace new york with the island? it will be just the background that will change ^^"
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ciaimpala · Posted: Sat May 02, 2009 4:21 pm Post subject:

Really awesome idea!!! Even if I can't come up with anything I'm still REALLY excited to see what others come up with

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Lostwithoutdom · Posted: Sat May 02, 2009 6:57 pm Post subject: