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What is Schlockfest?
More significantly, what is schlock? Is it one of those laughable
B movies from the 50's and 60's with the rubber monster masks
and flying saucers on strings?
Or is it a excruciatingly poorly dubbed import film?
Or maybe even a multi-million dollar Hollywood spectacle
with a plot and acting so horrendous as to make you gag?
Schlock is all of these, and more. Shlock is doing the best
you can with what you've got, with the full knowledge that
some of the components are... substandard. Be it sets, or
cinematography, acting, or script, true schlock ignores a
weakness and keeps on trying; and often with a self-parodying
sort of nonchalance.
Schlockfest is a chance for people to exercise their inner
creativity and put it on film, usually in a very tongue-in-cheek
manner. So it's OK if your movie is shot on a slightly out-of-focus
camcorder. It's OK if your actors can't remember their lines.
It's even OK if your script was written on the back of your
Accounting lecture notes. As long as you've given it your
best shot, it's shlock. And probably good schlock, too.
Write your script, shoot your footage, edit it into some
semblance of coherance and watch it on the big screen.
Who knows, you might win a prize!
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