The Discovery of Duct Tape will be screening again at the Progeny Film Festival at the Lyric Theatre in Blacksburg, Virginia on Wednesday, May 11 at 7 p.m.
Admission is free! Come out and celebrate the work of several student filmmakers in the region!
More information about the festival can be found at: http://www.progeny.org.vt.edu/
I am going to be making some changes over the summer to the blog. I still intend to post videos to the blog, but I am slowly going to start pulling sections of the film down off the site and Vimeo. If you would like to get a copy of the film, don’t worry! If you want a copy, email me at amhoekzema(at)gmail(dot)com. Till next time!
With Global Finals just around the corner, I thought I would share my DI hat for this year. As with every new season of Destination ImagiNation, I have the sudden urge to make a new crazy hat.
I normally make the hats out of unusual items like Christmas ornaments, flowers, bottle caps and other interesting items. The hats all share a common theme: they are made with the base of a cowboy hat and somewhere on the hat is feathers. 
Now, my initial goal this year was to make a hat without feathers, as it’s an item I use every year to help cover the hat. Alas this year I was unable to go without feathers, but I’m proud to say that the feathers made up less than 30% of the hat this year.
If you couldn’t guess, the theme for the hat this year was the sun. I found some really interesting floral items at Michael’s this year and wanted to design the hat around them. So this is the result!
I hope you enjoy!
Want to see the film? Well, The Discovery of Duct Tape will be screening at the Virginia Student Film Festival in Charlottesville, Virginia this Friday during the 7:30 to 9:15 competitive shorts program at the Newcomb Theater. This will be the first public screening of the film, so come on out!
For more information about the festival please check out the website at: http://student.virginia.edu/~fms-uva/festival/2011/.
In the next week, the DVD for The Discovery of Duct Tape will be complete. I am working on the finishing touches as I type this. The DVD will include some awesome special features including some of the short educational videos posted to the blog as well as a festival cut of the film. If you find yourself wanting a DVD please contact me at amhoekzema (at)gmail(dot)com. The DVD will not be for sale, but by special request only.
As a teaser, here is the front of the DVD cover:
This week meet The Flock from Marion, Virginia. The Flock is a high school team competing in Challenge D: Do or DI. The team has been to Globals eight times!
Join us next week for Episode 4: Regionals!
Episode 4: Regionals, Part 1 will be posted on March 14.
Dear DIVA Community,
Last year, I began work on a documentary about three teams participating in Destination ImagiNation in Virginia. Several months have passed since filming for the film was completed. Many hours have been spent cutting together the footage to tell the story of the teams participating in the project. I am proud to announce that the film has finally been completed!
In order to share this project with the community, every week I will be posting a short two to three minute episode to my blog, The Discovery of Duct Tape for everyone to view. An episode will be posted every week leading up to Global Finals. I will also continue to post informative videos on different aspects of the program.
I would like to thank everyone who contributed to this project, I would never have been able to complete it without the support of the Virginia DI community, especially the teams that volunteered to be featured in the project.
If you have any questions about the project or would like to obtain a DVD, please contact me at amhoekzema@gmail.com.
The episodes can be viewed here: http://discoveryofducttape.wordpress.com/
The first episode will be posted this week.
Good Luck with the upcoming Regional and Affiliate competitions!
Sincerely,
Abbey Hoekzema
The film is finished and is in its final stages in post production. More information will soon follow.
New to DI? A little confused on how all the duct tape, glitter, glue card board and trash comes together for competition? Look no further.
There is a brief explanation of what the challenge perimeters were and a shortened performance. Generally, performances go from about 6 to 8 minutes. For the sake of the internet, the most important parts are highlighted
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