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Should your short film be accepted for inclusion in Unlikely Stories of the Third Kind, please follow these suggestions for getting it to us in a low-compression format. These instructions assume you have been accepted; you want to read the guidelines first. Or would you prefer to learn about the on-line magazine, Unlikely 2.0?
If you made your film with iMovie, skip to suggestion three. Apple software handles this stuff strangely.
- We would prefer to receive your accepted film as a high-quality DV-AVI file (of the sort that comes directly out of a contemporary digital camcorder) at least 720 pixels wide. We can then rip it directly to DVD with a minimum of data loss. .AVI files are large, and it probably won't fit on a CD-ROM, but most short films will fit on a DVD-ROM.
- If your film won't fit on a DVD-ROM, consider mailing us a flash drive with your film on it, and enough return postage to send the drive back to you (if it's worth it to you). You can get ‘em awful cheap these days, at stores like eCost.
- If you don't feel comfortable creating a DV-AVI file, just send us your film on DVD, as a playable DVD. We'll rip it to DV-AVI, then back to our DVD. This shouldn't decrease the quality much. Of course, if it looks crappy on your DVD player before you send it to us, it'll look crappy on everyone else's—we aren't building YouTube videos, and we need you to have some original, low-compression files.
Send the final product to Jonathan Penton at:
500 S. Mesa St., #389
El Paso, TX 79901