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Tongal’s ACE Hardware Winners

If you’ve noticed all the ads we’ve been running for Tongal.com you already know that they’ve been running some huge contests for some major-league companies lately.  One of their bigger clients is ACE Hardware and yesterday Tongal announced the winner of ACE’s “Customer Service Video Project.”  The goal in this contest was to shoot a video about how helpful ACE employees can be.  Here’s the spot that came out on top:

First Place Winner.  Prize:  $10,000:

Pretty good huh?  Looks really professional too.  I was keeping an eye on this contest because I actually entered this one myself.  I collaborated with my long-distance contest buddy HappyJoel Levinson; he created a song and I shot and edited a video for it.  We did manage to win a prize; $500.  But this was one of those times when I kind of knew I had missed the mark.  I think the video was cute but it was lacking pizazz.  You can’t tell from the video but the outside stuff was shot in the freezing rain.  But at least the shoot was a good excuse to try out my new camera gear.  I just bought an HVX200 last month and I’m really happy with it.  Now that I’m using a real video camera again I realize just how inhibiting DSLRs can be.  With the HVX I don’t need to worry about ISO numbers or syncing up audio in post or stuff going out of focus if I move the camera a foot closer to the subject.  I’m excited to shoot a lot more entries this year now that I don’t have to worry so much about the tech side of things.  Basically I’ll be able to just point and shoot.  Anywho, if you’d like to see the entry Joel and I did (or the rest of the winning spots) head here:  http://tongal.com/project/aceservice

 

A “Highly Humorous” Update

A somewhat humorous banner

Last week, the new video contest hosting site Highly Humorous launched their third ever contest so I thought I’d take a second and do a quick update on their progress.  It’s really interesting to watch a new site like this as it evolves.  Right now, HH is just running small contests of their own so they can develop a strong talent base before they start running contests for outside companies.  I’m not sure if they came up with that idea on their own but I know that Poptent started the same way.  I looked at some of the first assignments that site ever ran and they were stuff like “make an ad for a fictional cell phone company!”

Highly Humorous’ newest contest is also for a fictional company; 48 Hour Energy.  That’s an energy drink that keeps you wired for two days straight.  I like these test contests because filmmakers are allowed to be irreverent and kind of crazy since there’s no actual sponsor to offend.  The deadline to enter the 48 Hour Energy contest is December 22nd and the top prize is $1,000.  More info here.

Highly Humorous also recently announced the winners of the “SuperHero” test contest and you can see all the results here.  There were some decent entries but I think my favorite was this video that came in third:

Click to view.

I’m not sure how much longer HH plans to do these “test” contests but I’ve been talking to some of the guys running the site and they seem to have some big plans for 2012.  I don’t think this is officially official but it seems like soon HH will be running contests for outside companies where the prizes will be in the $5,000.  So, HH will be a site to keep an eye on in the new year.

 

Sledgehammer Wine’s “Pumpkin Crush” winner

Drink me.

Well, I did it.  I finally, freaking did it.  I have slain my white whale!  I was finally able to win a video contest where the winner was determined by facebook votes.  After getting my ass kicked in these contests all year, I started to become obsessed with winning one of them.  I was always able to make a video good enough to get into the finals but I could never muster enough votes to come out on top.  After a while, I realized that there were certain people who kept winning these facebook votes over and over and over.  So I basically stalked them across the web to figure out what they were doing.  These people basically work around the clock to get hundreds of votes a day. And let me tell you, by observing them in action I was able to learn some crazy techniques for getting real facebook votes.  But I’m still a novice. I lucked out and none of the super-vote-getters out there entered the Sledgehammer contest….maybe because it was only open to residents of a handful of Midwestern states.  Seriously, that restriction was one reason I entered this one.  I thought it would cut back on the competition and it sure did.

The contest I managed to win was Sledgehammer Wine’s “Pumpkin Crush” contest.  The idea for this one was elegantly simple; contestants were supposed to make a funny video of themselves destroying a pumpkin.  Why?  Well, I guess because the company’s name is “Sledgehammer” and it was October.  Here’s my entry:

Grand Prize Winner.  Prize:  $2,000:
 

 
I think that was pretty good.  And if the winner had been picked by a panel of judge’s I think I still would have won the grand prize.  But let me be clear about something; winning one of these facebook voting contests isn’t really anything to be proud of.  Yeah I did make a video that was able to get into the top 10 but that wasn’t too tough.  These facebook contests aren’t about skill.  They’re just a competition to see who can get the most new people to “like” the sponsor’s page.  So now that I’ve finally proved to myself that I can win one of these, I think I’ll be taking a break for a while and focus on contests that require a little talent to win.

 

Matching Donors Video Contest Winners

Hey, are you an organ donor?  No!??  What are you, an asshole?  Do you think that when you die, you’ll show up at the gates of heaven and Saint Peter will say, “Welcome! Please place your liver in the return slot and then then you can go inside!”?  There are so many people dying in this country because there aren’t enough organ donors it’s shameful.  Ten people A DAY die in the US while waiting for a kidney transplant. Do you really need to take both of yours into the ground when you go? Yeah, it would suck if you died but at least you’d save like 8 lives on your way out the door.  Personally, my driver’s license says that I’m a Level 1A organ donor.  That’s the top level right there, man.  When I die, not only can doctors take every scrap of tissue from my body, I’ve ordered that whatever’s left over should be donated to a haunted house.  But it has to be a good one!  If my skeleton is going to be attached to a pneumatic piston and used to scare teenagers it better be in the most kick ass haunted attraction in the country.   Of course, if there’s a haunted house out there that would actually feature real dead guys I guess they’d have to be pretty hardcore.

Ok, this post is getting a little dark.  But I do have a point.  Here’s the video that won the Matching Donors “Everybody Can Save a Life” video contest that was run on zooppa.  It’s pretty good, I think:
 
First Place Winner.  Prize: $5,000 + some “hollywood” perks:
 

 
At this time I should mention that Matching Donors is all about finding LIVING donors.  So it’s a little different. No joke, I have a cousin that donated a lobe of his liver to his mom and it saved her life.  You have to be one hell of a special human being to part with a chunk of yourself while you’re still alive.  Me, I think I could maybe part with a kidney.  But my secret hope would be that years later, someone would try and shoot me in the kidney but I’d live because I had it removed.  It could happen!  It happened to John Locke on Lost, didn’t it?

Just for the record, it’s like 3AM and I can’t sleep.  So as a test, I decided I would do a blog entry about the winner of the very first completed video contest I found.  I also gave myself a 20 minute time limit and except for spelling errors, I couldn’t go back and re-write anything I wrote.  So, this is what a random, stream of consciousness post from Beardy looks like!  PEACE OUT DORKS!

 
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