Lost Video Island

Aislynn · Posted: Tue May 05, 2009 9:51 pm Post subject:

We'll get back to you ASAP, Becca!

buffyfan145 · Posted: Wed May 06, 2009 11:44 am Post subject:

This sounds like a really awesome idea!!!

I really want to do this and I'm torn between what novel to do. I want to either do "Northanger Abbey" by Jane Austen, "The Choice" by Nicholas Sparks, or some of the other romance novels I've read.

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xXAngelicEvilXx · Guest

I think I'm going to do "The Forgotten Door" by Alexander Key. It's an older book, and it has similarities but some differences, but the main character is named Little Jon so it could be a cool Locke vid, hehe.

Aislynn · Posted: Wed May 06, 2009 11:16 pm Post subject:

mrgrace · Advanced Vidder Joined: 09 Mar 2009 Posts: 18

I'm very excited for this contest, what a brilliant idea! But I din't know if I enter, cause I have to preparer to my exams... Anyway, I will try to make a vid for this contest, I think I will take "Tristan and Isolda" as a story to tell in my vid. It's not exactly a book sotry, it's smth like myth, but it's ok if I choose it?

Aislynn · Posted: Thu May 07, 2009 8:10 pm Post subject:

I'm not exactly sure about that, mrgrace, since we're asking specifically for a book, but we'll confer and get back to just as soon as we can! I certainly hope you'll have time to enter around your exams!

mrgrace · Advanced Vidder Joined: 09 Mar 2009 Posts: 18

SassyLostie2 · Posted: Fri May 08, 2009 12:15 am Post subject:

Technically, the story of Tristan and Isolde has been written into a book.

Many myths are written down into book form.

Aislynn · Posted: Sat May 09, 2009 2:22 am Post subject:

mrgrace, we've been talking this over for a while now and we feel that a myth is really not what this contest was supposed to be for, even though, yes, I'm sure it's been written down at some point

but we're looking for a fictional novel (something that would be "Name of Book" by Author instead of one story in a book of myths). So hopefully you can find a book that would be better suited to this contest!

You're always welcome to do "Tristan and Isolde" separately as just a "regular" vid. I bet you'd make an awesome vid for it!

But it's just not quite what we're looking for in this contest, which is something that's starting as a stand-alone book/novel.

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

I have a question about how literal the clips have to be to the story.
If I pick a story that has something in it that has never appeared on Lost can I subsitute it with something else?

For example ,one story I considered had a snake in it, but we have never seen a snake in Lost so can I substitute it with something else?
Would you accept things as more of an analogy or metaphor rather than an actual snake.If I choose that story could I have Ben act as the snake instead of an animal?

If there is no way to literally recreate an element of the real story with Lost can I just use that line as literally as is possible with the clips we have been given on Lost?

Macaila

Aislynn · Posted: Sat May 09, 2009 7:05 pm Post subject:

Hey, Macaila! This was from the last page so you might not have seen it but it should answer your questions.

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

Thank you that does help me out.

I have some questions about the audio in the video.
I am considering doing nursery rhymes,so if for example I wanted to do Mary Had A Little Lamb, can I use a children's album with that song on it and then use the appropriate clips to tell the story?

A few weeks ago Michael Emerson was on Jimmy Fallon and read aloud a nursery rhyme, would I be allowed to use Michael's reading of the rhyme in my video? I wasn't sure if that fell under the same catagory as using footage of Lost stars in movies and other television projects.

Macaila

littleton_pace · Posted: Fri May 15, 2009 2:58 am Post subject:

We'll chat about it and get back to you soon Macaila

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xXAngelicEvilXx · Guest

There's a 50/50 on me being in the contest. I've just had plenty of stuff going on and I haven't even started the video yet. It all depends on everything going on here at the house. Just got a dog, so training is in order.

littleton_pace · Posted: Sun May 17, 2009 3:56 am Post subject:

Sorry it took so long to get back to you Macaila; hackers!!

Anyway, we chatted and if you can find an instrumental song of the nursery rhyme you want to tell, then that's fine, but seeing as the songs lyrics tell the story; that's not allowed because the song is telling the story; not the vid. And the specific requirement in this comp is to tell a fictional story with our losties in a video.

As for Michael's creepy nursery rhyme, that's fine to use

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