Photo © TomLA

As Catherine originally posted:

Everybody loves the movies...especially photographers. After all, moving pictures are just lots of still pictures all smoooshed together. For this project, we'd like to put you in the cinematographer's chair.

You can either pay homage and duplicate a well-known scene from a movie OR you can create your own movie idea and scene "in the style of" any of the categories listed below. You could, for example, recreate the famous Don Corleone Puts an Orange in his Mouth scene. Or you could create a scene from your own movie; something like Utatans in Space.

This project is meant to challenge your creative and composition skills. We're not after a specific type of photograph; we're after a mood, a situation, a scenario.

The Categories:

1. Drama / Film Noir
2. Action / Adventure
3. Romance / Comedy
4. Epic / Historical
5. Sci Fi / Fantasy
6. Documentary

We assume that with the exception of the latter, these categories are self explanatory. The Documentary category could include anything from an homage to actual documentary films to stills from a mock documentary born out of your own fevered mind. It could even include stills of the sorts of educational film strips shown to students in the 1950s and 60s...classics like "How To Ask a Girl for a Date" or "The History of Corn" or "The Evils of Alcohol."

Rules

1. Cinematic shots are never portrait orientation - while we won't hold strict to the aspect ratio of an actual film still we will ask that, at least, all shots be landscape orientation and be wider than they are tall (no squares).
2. You must entitle your photograph with the name of your movie. If it's a homage shot title it "Homage: " + the name of the movie/scene.
3. Tag all shots with utatagoestothemovies
4. Do NOT use archived images from your stream; the object is to create new work with purpose.
5. One image per category per member, please (you can, as always, replace any image with a new one if you take one you like better)

So...there it is. If you have any questions, let us know.

Mr.DeMille, I'm ready for my close-up.

Utata Goes To The Movies, aside from being a wonderful photographic exercise, marks our first serious effort into programmatically integrating flickr data and the Utata interface. We're very pleased with the inaugural results. With profound gratitude to our flickr guru David Wilkinson (and to flickr from whence we all hail, of course), Utata is pleased and proud to present this truly compelling collection of photographs. You can still make submissions to the project by using the handy dandy submission page.