Insomnia Film Fest

Apple's sponsoring the Insomnia Film Fest for high school and college students. On October 13, you'll have 24 hours to produce a 3-minute "film" based on elements that will be posted at 9am that day:

The Insomnia Film Festival is back—and while the world sleeps, you could be making film history.
Calling all high school and college filmmakers.
On Saturday, October 13 at 9:00 a.m. (Eastern time), we’ll post a top-secret list of elements — special props, dialogue, settings — you get the idea. Choose any three to include in your movie. Then all you and your team have to do is write, cast, shoot, edit, score, and upload your 3-minute masterpiece within 24 hours. No problem, right?
Once the films are in, your friends, family, and adoring fans will be able to watch them online and rate their favorites. The 25 entries with the highest rating on November 9 at 12:00 a.m. EST will be screened by industry professionals, including Barry Sonnenfeld, James Mangold, and Nora Ephron.
If your film is the biggest hit with either the public or the pros, each member of your team will receive a MacBook Pro, Final Cut Studio 2, Logic Studio, and Shake so you can get started on that first sequel. How’s that for a Hollywood ending?

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Sound Effects

J-Walk titled this "Worst Deal At eMusic", but if you need sound effects and already have an eMusic account, it may be a great deal:

If you're an eMusic member, you'll probably want to pass this one by: Whooshes, Swipes, Swooshes and Fly-In Sound Effects.

The album has 42 tracks, with a total time of 2 minutes, 41 seconds. Unfortunately, sample clips aren't available for this item.

I'm guessing that if they have one sound effects disk, they probably have others.