ShotDeck Recreations Contest Returns with Bigger Prizes

Filmmaking Competition

by Bato ProsicJuly 2^nd, 2022

Industry-leading research tool ShotDeck is once again putting on its Recreations Contest. This time they have prepared over 30,000.00 USD in prizes from sponsors like Sony, Aputure, Blackmagic, Zeiss and Tiffen. The contest is already open for entries.

Apart from the ShotDeck Recreation Contest, we have reported on ShotDeck before. In a nutshell: on ShotDeck you can search for image references from movies, to share and communicate aesthetic visions with your team. The search works either by movie title, or by a whole slew of criteria like Genre, Color, Aspect Ratio, Time of Day, Lighting, Shot Type and more. From there you can build decks with pictures, share them with your team, export them, archive them, and much more. Currently the database features 318,049 shots from 2,018 titles. ShotDeck was created and is headlined by Lawrence Sher ASC, the Oscar-nominated cinematographer of Joker, and many other movies you might have seen (Godzilla, Hangover, Garden State, Due Date, Paul, The Big Year …).

How ShotDeck’s Recreation Contest Works

The ShotDeck Recreation Contest works as follows: participants are challenged to choose and recreate one beautiful shot from a movie in the database. A jury of industry-leading filmmakers will then award prizes in over 20 categories, such as “Most Ambitious”, “Best Lighting”, “Best Makeup” and many more. The panel consists of director Todd Phillips, Academy-Award-winning DPs Greig Fraser (ASC, ACS) and Erik Messerschmidt (ASC), Natasha Breier (ASC, ADF) and surprise celebrity judges.

Prizes and Participation

Now, like any good contest, the ShotDeck Recreation Contest tries to motivate its participants with some extraordinary prizes. This year, ShotDeck managed to create an impressive package of prizes from brand sponsors. Sony, Blackmagic, Aputure, Zeiss, Tiffen, Roscoe, SmallHD and others have indeed contributed some major draws for participants such as:

• 5 Sony FX3 Full-Frame cameras
• Aputure LS 600x Pro and LS 600d Pro, plus accessories
• Aputure Nova, LS 60d and Accent B7c Light Kits
• Zeiss Milvus Lens
• Blackmagic Design DaVinci Resolve 18 Studio licenses
• SmallHD Action 5 monitor
• and more

Participation is free, all you need is to create a trial account over at ShotDeck to compete in the ShotDeck Recreation Contest. The contest has started 12:01am GMT on July 1, 2022 and ends at 11:59pm GMT on July 31, 2022. Head on over to ShotDeck’s blog for the rules and more details on the fabulous prizes.

Are you interested in ShotDeck’s Recreation Contest? Would you participate? If not, what kind of prizes would make you reconsider? Let us know in the comments!