GROUND UP PLAY SUBMISSION

GROUND UP IS LOOKING FOR PLAY SUBMISSIONS!
Hello UNC Drama enthusiasts!
I know it seems like we were just there, but believe it or not, first semester is almost over and Ground UP Productions (the people who brought you Letter From Algeria and a series of master classes this past August) is already starting to think about its 2011 residency down in Chapel Hill, now called the UnderGround Project.
This year, to make it more your program, we want YOU to pick the play that we produce at the beginning of August. We are currently accepting suggestions of plays that you would like to see done at UNC. If it is a published script, you can submit the name of the play/playwright to Catya McMullen at catya@groundupproductions.org and we’ll go out and buy it and read it. If it’s an original piece, you can just email it to Catya at the same address.
Here are a couple of guidelines to get you started:
· In terms of casting, the piece can have no more than four characters who are college aged. If there are other characters, they have to be in their mid 20s-30s.
· The play must be flexible in terms of space (meaning it can be performed in a big or a small space).
That’s it! Please send us your submissions NO LATER than January 15th. We will be announcing the chosen script by the end of January, so that you can have all of February and March to prepare for auditions at the end of March.
We can’t wait to hear from you!
Sincerely,
Kate, Christine, Catya, and Ground UP Productions

Carolina Film Festival

The Carolina Film Festival

Carolina Film Festival - Call for Submissions!

The 2010 Carolina Film Festival (CFF) will be held April 29, 6 – 9 PM in Murphey 116.  The mission of the campus-wide Carolina Film Festival is to support, promote and recognize excellence in student media production and screenwriting at UNC-CH. Sponsored by the Department of Communication Studies in the College of Arts & Sciences, over a six year history the CFF has averaged 45 submissions and as many as 12 award winning films/film makers each year.

Submission Deadline:  

Wednesday, March 31, 12:00 pm (Noon) Bingham Hall Room 115. 

Prize money: Up to 9 cash prizes may be awarded for qualified work.  If selected, the winning piece in each category will receive $500. The Best in Show - overall winner - will receive $1,000.

Categories:

Best in Show
Animation
Audio
Documentary
Experimental
Media Production Craft/Technique
Narrative
Screenplay – Short or Feature Length
Viral Video*

Submissions

ANY current undergraduate student at UNC-CH with a project completed between May 1, 2009 and April 29, 2010 is eligible; Rough cuts will be considered.

which must include the names of the students most responsible for the creative content, title, running time, and contact information. 

All original media entries other than screenplays must be submitted for consideration on DVD-R format (4 copies).  Each DVD must be labeled with Name, Running time, and Title. Screenplays must be properly labeled with identification and contact information.

The entries will be judged on the basis of resourcefulness, originality, entertainment, and production quality, without regard to cost of production or subject matter. The judging panel will be comprised of faculty and industry specialists.

Submission deadline is Wednesday March 31, 12:00 PM in Bingham Hall Room 115.

 *Viral Videos: Reside on the web (YouTube, Vimeo, Facebook, etc.) and will be judged based on the above criteria as well as popular vote gauged by the number of hits/visits to that video. A URL is required for consideration in this category. The dates of completion must still fall in the window May 1, 2009 - April 29 2010 and the web time stamp on the work will be used to verify upload date.

 Festival Disclaimer
Entry does not guarantee award or placement in the program on April 29. However, each submission will be carefully considered. Festival judges will pre-select entries that will be featured as finalists at the festival. Finalists will then be judged by category and the winners will be announced during the awards presentation at the completion of the festival. Awards will only be granted only when there is a consensus reached by the jurors. Works of all lengths will be considered but due to time restrictions at the festival screening, works will be limited in screening time.

For more information, please contact Mark Robinson mrobin@email.unc.edu.

The Sound Of Language

Preface

The following words have been arranged in accordance with the central thesis of the work itself. As it is currently written, the thesis is not ostensively demonstrated in the traditional manner (the beginning of the paper). Rather, I seek to embody the thesis through the whole of the work. I wish to tell the story of language through a style of generalized chromaticism, a style that evokes musical qualities, a style that ultimately sheds the pouvoir of language itself. In seeking such a goal, bold and italicized subtitles have been used throughout the piece, but to call them “subtitles” would be to misname them. They should rather be taken as bolder voices, tensors if you will, that allow the surrounding words to take flight in semiotic variation through them. To think in musical terms, they are chords played behind the notes to follow. They are chords that allow the following notes to reach a variety of heights that they would not have otherwise met. The tensors are placed throughout the paper so that the words, the notes, might fly in a multiplicity of directions. They are present so that a constant act of deterritorialization might occur upon their reading and rereading. Furthermore, in the footsteps of the thinkers I have chosen to write after, each ‘subsection’ is written to stand alone; thus, one could go anywhere in the work and read a ‘subsection.’ Saying this, to grasp the full range of emotive qualities present within the work, one must listen to the whole of the piece like a song or opera. Although split into movements and parts, the piece stands as a whole, taking the reader along a continuum of variation.