Open Invite For Collaborative Film Project
Humanities Montana is hosting a collaborative film project called “Gather Round” on the theme of water.
Each person who participates in the project is invited to submit video footage. The project prompt asks, “How is water significant in your life? Show us a fishing hole, irrigation system, river, lake, rainstorm, swimming pool or household tap.”
Using crowdsourced footage and a poem from Montana poets laureate Melissa Kwasny and Mandy Smoker Broaddus, project organizers will create a film.
Tips from organizers for producing footage include: Shoot in 16x9 widescreen mode (landscape), fill the frame completely and hold still; avoid pans, zooms and fast pullbacks. Avoid excessive video editing techniques and keep it short and simple. The length should be between 10 seconds and 2 minutes. Upload your final footage as an mp4 at tinyurl.com/ GatherRound-film. The name and photo associated with your Google account will be recorded when you upload files and submit the project form.
According to their website, Humanities Montana serves communities by bringing people together to share stories and have conversations as part of a group of learners and thinkers who want to nurture imagination and ideas by discovering more about Montana’s diverse history, literature and philosophy.
