Posted: May 12, 2021
Hear ye, filmmakers! The 2021 Microflix Award & Festival is upon us, and this year’s stories are sure to spark your creativity. After the mayhem that was 2020 (choose your character: bushfires, floods, a global pandemic, protests) our writers have overcome no shortage of setbacks in order to emerge victorious into the new year with …
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Posted: August 30, 2020
Hello and welcome all you Flixers! Only one day left until the submission deadline – Monday August 31st – how is everyone feeling? Here at the Microflix team we wish everyone the best of luck while they progress through the finishing touches of their Microflix’s. How many of you are feeling a lack of motivation …
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Posted: August 26, 2020
Hello and welcome all you Flixers to todays blog post! More dates have been crossed off your calendars as the submission date to the Microflix Film Festival draws nearer – August 31st. I’m hoping that today’s blog post with UTS Animation students will inspire you as you finalise those last stages of your flix. The …
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Posted: August 24, 2020
Have you crossed the dates off your calendar since my last blog post? If so, then you’re on the ball and know that the Microflix deadline is just round the corner. Actually, it’s next week people (August 31st), so we better get cracking on the finishing touches of our Microflix films! And subsequently, onto this …
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Posted: August 20, 2020
Another day bites the dust as we roll closer and closer to the Microflix submission deadline (August 31st). For some, it’s another day of going around in circles trying to find inspiration for their adaptation. And so another progress diary from UTS Animation students is in order, in the hope that it will spark your …
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Posted: August 13, 2020
Hello Fellow Flixers! With less than a month to go til the submissions deadline date (August 31st), many of you filmmakers, animators and storytellers are progressing somewhere through the second half of your projects! Maybe you are near the end or have already submitted? Or you are just beginning your Microflix now and are in …
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Posted: June 1, 2020
There are almost too many microlit texts to choose from – but here, I’ve done all the hard work for you. Between frenzied hand washes, check out these microlit texts and get thinking about how they could make the leap from page to screen. What makes these texts great? More importantly, how do we communicate …
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Posted: May 20, 2020
Or Ashleigh’s Tips for Adapting Microlit – Part Two By now we’re well into isolation and adjusting to the new normal – if normal is a parallel universe where I go on three walks a day and spend my nights learning embroidery. What time to be alive. Many people are finding isolation is a chance …
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Posted: May 12, 2020
Or, Ashleigh’s Tips for Adapting Microlit – Part One The 2020 Microflix Comp is here, and the microlit is in. There are countless texts to choose from, and endless ideas to explore. Here, I’ve broken down three texts which I loved and could visualise on film. The following texts lend themselves to dramatic adaptation and …
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Posted: May 7, 2020
The 2020 Microflix Awards and Festival is upon us and this batch of microlit is ripe for adaptation – but what’s the best way to make someone else’s story your own? In Such a Transformation, Yasmine Gooneratne says; “The best adaptations imitate … capturing the spirit of the text …Imitation invites the reader to hold …
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