Our idea: We want to produce a feature film made up of the best drone footage from around the world. The best thing is: If your videos are selected for the cinema film “Like a Bird”, you will receive 900€ per minute used. (We bill to the second). And of course your name will flicker across the cinema screen in the credits. We will unearth the greatest and most award-worthy drone footage on our planet and bring these treasures to the cinema.
Drone pilots around the world film images that reveal completely new insights from the perspective "from above": The interesting thing is: Where has nature created the most impressive patterns and images in the landscape with wind and weather, with plants and animals, with rivers or deserts or with mountains and valleys? Where has man interfered with nature and changed its image, where has he destroyed it? What are the most incredible, impressive and surprising findings when viewing the world from the air? We look forward to your creative submission.
When we sit at the editing table and are surprised, when we react emotionally and get goosebumps because of the breathtaking images, these shots will find a place in our film. With our new film project "Like a Bird - Around the world by drone" we will create something completely new, which has never existed in this form before.
The most important things in brief:
• We are creating an 80-90 minute feature film consisting entirely of drone footage. Through this call, we are looking for the most sensational, incredible, fascinating and award-worthy drone footage from all over the beautiful earth.
• You send us your 4K drone videos and we will edit a film from the best of the many submissions that will be shown on the big screen.
• You send us your video footage by e-mail via a download-link to a file hosting service (e.g. Onedrive, Dropbox, etc...) by e-mail to likeabird@comfilm.de or by mail on a data storage medium (USB-Stick, SD-Card, etc.)
• Your footage has been shot by you personally in a technically flawless manner, ideally in 4K, and you have the sole rights to the aerial video footage submitted.
• You have shot the footage under legal conditions and observed all local regulations.
• If your video finds a place in our film, we will pay you 900 Euro per minute of used footage incl. VAT. (We will calculate accurately and to the second, i.e. 15,00 € per second.) Payment will be made on the day of the theatrical release by bank transfer.
• In return we get from you the right to show and exploit your footage worldwide, temporally and spatially unlimited in all media (cinema, DVD, Bluray, TV, social media, streaming and in all other available media and also to show excerpts detached from the theatrical film for the promotion of the theatrical film) You can find the detailed conditions of participation on www.likeabird-film.de.
• We are fair and only ask for the non-exclusive right from you, i.e. you still own your videos. If you send us your videos by mail, please do not send us original files, but make us a copy of the unedited, uncompressed original material, preferably in 4K, because we will not be able to send anything back to you. The effort would simply be too great with the large number of submissions.
• You must be at least 18 years old on the day the video is shot or - if you are under 18 - have the consent of your parents/guardians to participate in the project.
Your video footage will be selected for the feature film:
• If it is unique, or particularly creative in the image composition.
• If the bird's-eye view reveals something that could not be seen from the ground perspective.
• If it is flawless in technical execution (properly exposed, absolutely sharp, good cropping, etc.).
• Please do not send us any video material if you only flew over your potato field or the local swimming lake and this material might be "quite nice", but just not special. You should find your video sensational and unique yourself and think that it absolutely belongs in a feature film.
• It is good if you have filmed your motif from different angles (from the side, from close up, from a distance, from the top view, flying towards it, circling it, flying from the bottom up, etc...), so that we can edit a longer sequence if necessary.
• We need your contact details (address, e-mail and phone number), so that we can get in touch with you if we have any questions. Of course, we do not share your data and treat them in accordance with the GDPR.
We are curious to see what sensational things you have discovered from a bird's eye view. Take part now!
Best regards,
Silke and Christian
www.likeabird-f...