Projects

Try these projects yourself and see your film-making progress.

48/5 Competition

• Hosted by the East Lansing Film Festival, the participants are given a genre, line of dialogue, prop, & location to shoot a 5 minute short film in 48 hours. Scripting, casting, filming and editing must be completed no later than 48 hours from inception.
• Homegrown Entertainment has competed in three of these competitions with titles such as O positive, Movie History, and 3rd place winner Speed Datin’.
• Great for practicing meeting deadlines.

8 shot Project

• An MSU Film Club favorite, participants must make a short film in 8 cuts or less telling an entire story while introducing characters, their motives, the actions, and the conclusion.
• Homegrown Entertainment completed Tuesday Night Hustler, a story about six friends trying to get to a poker game.
• Excellent for getting your scenes short and to the point, without adding useless cuts and dialogue.

Silent Shorts

• Participants must create a short film without using dialogue.
• A good way to practice your artistic side and camera work.

General Dialogue

• A static general conversation between two characters, the script does not change and participants are required to see how many different genres they can mold the dialogue into.
• A great way to build your script writing, and dialogue composition.