{"id":15,"date":"2010-07-21T15:28:11","date_gmt":"2010-07-21T15:28:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.davidpencil.com\/blog\/?p=15"},"modified":"2010-07-21T15:30:14","modified_gmt":"2010-07-21T15:30:14","slug":"standoff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davidpencil.com\/blog\/standoff\/","title":{"rendered":"StandOff"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.davidpencil.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/Standoff1resize3.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-110\" title=\"Standoff\" src=\"http:\/\/www.davidpencil.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/Standoff1resize3-300x282.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"282\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.davidpencil.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/Standoff1resize3-300x282.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.davidpencil.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/Standoff1resize3.jpg 691w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a> The DVXuser forums are a pretty popular place for indie film makers, and they regularly hold &#8220;Fests&#8221; where members submit short films of a particular genre, and are voted on. Recently, I participated in the latest of these, the DVXuser WestFest. The film I worked on was a very short, short, only about 4 minutes, but the scene was well conceived and shot. Since the whole thing revolves around these 3 bank-robbers in a&#8230;wait for it&#8230;standoff, I decided to choose an small ensemble to match, relying solely on acoustic guitar, shaker, and whistling. The title cue can be heard on the music player. I&#8217;m definitely looking forward to participating in more of these &#8220;Fests&#8221; in the future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The DVXuser forums are a pretty popular place for indie film makers, and they regularly hold &#8220;Fests&#8221; where members submit short films of a particular genre, and are voted on. Recently, I participated in the latest of these, the DVXuser <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.davidpencil.com\/blog\/standoff\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  StandOff<\/span><span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidpencil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidpencil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidpencil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidpencil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidpencil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidpencil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":118,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidpencil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15\/revisions\/118"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidpencil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidpencil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidpencil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}