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Monograms buys two Poptent-made promos

It’s a Festivus miracle!  The travel website Monograms recently ran two video assignments via Poptent.net and the company wound up purchasing two different promos for use online.  And one of those videos just happened to be mine.  Score!  As you’ll see from the two ads, Monograms is targeting a specific demographic and wanted to emphasis a lot of their key features.  Here’s the video that sold from the first Monograms assignment.  It was made by Poptent members Mark W. Gray & Scotty Well:

Purchased by Monograms.  Price: $7,500:

After Monograms purchased the above video they decided they could use another one.  So Poptent ran a special “Invitation Only” assignment and invited a small number of experienced members to submit promos.  I think everyone who submitted had already sold at least one video thanks to poptent so the competition was really, really tight.  There were some excellent videos submitted so I feel like I did get a little lucky with this one.  Here’s my video:

Purchased by Monograms.  Price: $5,000:

I haven’t gotten all the details yet about when or where the promos will be used.  But I do know the company is going to request a few edits first.  Now that I watch it with a fresh eye I think I could cut the first 15 seconds and just start with the husband looking up hotels on the computer.  Anyways, Mongrams looks like a really easy way to book vacations so go check ‘em out: http://www.monogramstravel.com/

And if you’ve read all the way to the bottom of the post I can take that to mean that you’re at least a little interested in my non-VCN endeavors.  So if you’re into such things, how about following my real, non-Beardy persona on Twitter?  I just joined so I could certainly use some followers to help me look like less of a loser:  http://twitter.com/I_Crapbot

NY Film Festival Trailer selected

If you’ve ever been to a film fest you’ve probably seen a short little video bumper promoting the festival that run before the screening starts. They’re always very unique and fun. Well the New York Film Festival needed a promo bumper for this year’s festival so they put out an open call for submissions on poptent. This call was kind of unusual for the site since the fest is non-profit and there would be no cash award. However, the fest did give out a “super” VIP package and the selected festival trailer will be shown throughout the New York Film Festival and will then be shown in theaters year round before other screenings.

That right there is actually a pretty sweet prize. Getting a film into the NY festival would be great for anyone’s filmmography but to have the festival as a client and to have your work screen in theaters and in Lincoln Center(!) would be a really nice resume builder. Here’s the video that was chose by The New York Film Festival:

That’s really slick. I like it. If you want to see something crazy though, check out this video that was one of the finalists:

That video was created by three US Marines while serving in Afghanistan! More details about the guys who made it can be found here. To see more submitted videos, check out Poptent’s blog: http://www.poptent.net/blog/

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