An upcoming new feature film set in Bristol has launched a competition to provide an original piece of music for a house party scene. Eight Minutes Idle is a twisted romantic comedy set in a Bristol call centre starring ones-to-watch young British actors Tom Hughes and Ophelia Lovibond.

Eight Minutes Idle is the second film to be made under South West Screen and BBC Films’ iFeatures microbudget filmmaking scheme, supported by the BFI Film Fund.

Currently in post-production, Eight Minutes Idle already features music from Bristol’s very own Kid Carpet, West Country favourites The Wurzels and Damon Albarn’s international animated superstars Gorillaz.

The next band it features could be yours, helping to set the scene at a student house party which was filmed at a house on Kingsdown Parade.

Eight Minutes Idle Director Mark Simon Hewis, who lives in Bristol, says: “We’re looking for someone with a love of music production and a twisted sense of humour to write a tune that’s so bad it’s good.

“The winning entry will be cemented into cinematic immortality. It’s the kind of music that’s playing when you walk home with someone you really fancy and find your drunk flatmates’ friends busting your speakers and having a threesome in your bed.”

As well as hearing their music in cinemas and broadcast on the BBC, the winning composer will also receive two tickets to the official UK premiere of the film.

This is what you need to do:

- View the clip at www.eightminutesidle.co.uk
- Write a great tune (more than two-minutes in length)
- Upload it to YouTube with the clip provided as an unlisted video
- Email the URL to party@8minutesidle.co.uk along with your contact details

The closing date for the competition is midday on November 16. Entries will be judged by the filmmakers and represntatives from BBC Films and the BFI.

Here’s Eight Minutes Idle director Mark walking, talking and explaining more: