BIFS review competition

BIFS (British + Irish Film Season) is a short, intense blitz of quality movies you often won't get a chance to see again. With its focus on Indie productions, there are few star-studded flicks that will enjoy long runs in the multiplexes.

Alongside the screening, with films selected by the organiser Mr Thompson after he has spent weeks flying around several summer festivals (such as Galway and Edinburgh) and then negotiated for rights and some guest appearances (as well as securing multiple venues, and arranging the financing, busy man!), there are competitions aimed at a youth audience.

You have the chance to showcase your literary skills by writing a striking review of any of the films screened, OR, new for this year following some conversations we had over the summer, you can deliver your review as a video! The official guidelines are quite brief (right: a photo of the relevant brochure page).

DEADLINE is midnight at Thursday 29th - you could email the organiser if you think you'd get it in early on Friday.

Here are a few pointers for creating a video format review.

Week1 posts

Once you've tweaked the settings, these will be your initial posts - you can add more too, reflecting any reading or critical viewing (or simply early ideas) you do.

WELCOME TO MY BLOG

THE BRIEF [find Sophie's blog from the 2016 list, and locate the brief, copy/paste into a post]

LESSONS FROM 2016 StG STUDENT BLOGS - have a look at last year's (2015-16, so I list as 2016, when they were submitted) StG AS student blogs. Screenshot details which help show you what kind of work you'll be doing for your 2017 blogs. You can find student blogs by clicking through the Student Blogs blog (look at the links lists down the right), hyperlinked in my list of blogs - where I've also hyperlinked blogs, final cuts etc for 2016+2017 StG work (and a lot more YouTube playlists too).

This is a screenshot - caption text is automatically small; it is better to make it normal size. The 2016 StG and 2015/14/13 IGS AS blogs are also worth a look; the UK Evaluation is slightly different, otherwise they followed the same brief as you

Add a screenshot to illustrate each point you want to make.
On a Mac, hold CMD and SHIFT, press 4; drag the mouse round the area you want to capture, holding in the left mouse button ... and let go. An image will be saved on the Desktop.