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Ringo announces the winner of his video contest

Beardy — Thu, 10 May 2012 18:27:06 +0000

It seems like a lot of bands are running music video contests these days and I always stay far away from them. Producing 3 or 4 minutes of interesting video content is pretty damn hard. And for some weird reason, the prizes are usually pretty small. Ringo Starr just ran a music video contest for his new song “Wings” and even though Ringo has got to be like a mega-super-millionaire the grand prize was only $3,000. I happen to think Ringo is awesome and I doubt he had much to do with the contest. But these small prizes just guarantee that there won’t be too many great entries. Of course, the winner does get a credit as the director of Ringo’s official music video. And that’s pretty sweet. But that credit kind of seems less impressive if you know the video was made for a contest.

Anyways, like I said, Ringo is cool. And the video he made to announce the winner of his contest is pretty funny. You can tell that someone probably just pulled him into his backyard to shoot this. Then even though a incredibly loud plane flies right overhead, Ringo kept going. So one take was all that Ringo had time for. But he does say something pretty perfect at the end that saves the whole video:

And now here’s the music video that won the contest. As you’ll hear/see, this was a really hard song to make a video for since there were long breaks where there weren’t any lyrics:

You can read the details of the contest or see more entries right here. Peace and love, peace and love, peace and love.

Via IndyMogul: How to find and win video contests

Beardy — Tue, 24 Apr 2012 05:14:25 +0000

If I were a much lazier blogger, about 50% of my posts would just be embeds of How-To videos created by IndyMogul. If you haven’t checked out their youtube channel before you should stop reading this and click here to subscribe right now. If you poke around their page you’ll find about a hundred gazillion handy tips for low budget filmmakers. But this week’s episode is especially relevant to the interests of video contest filmmakers since it’s about finding and winning video contests!

If you’re a hardcore video contester (I’m hoping that phrase will catch on) then this video won’t really tell you anything you don’t already know. But if you’re new to the game, this video will give you a crash course on the basics. Actually, the episode starts with some cool info about the new wave of prosumer cameras that were unveiled at the NAB show in Las Vegas last week. So even if you’re a video contest super-genius you might want to check it out.

BMW’s “0 to Desire in 5.9 seconds” winner

Beardy — Fri, 13 Apr 2012 21:47:45 +0000

BMW’s “0 to Desire in 5.9 Seconds” contest was a really, really, REALLY tough one to win. Contestants had 6 seconds (It takes a BMW 3 Series 5.9 seconds to reach 60 MPH) to explain why they desired a new 3-Series. Because it was so easy to enter, the company got about 1,500 submissions! They picked 30 (pretty damn good) finalists and then the ultimate winner was picked via a lengthy online vote. Or at least, that’s how the winner was supposed to be determined. There was some fine print in the rules that said the judges could use the public vote to choose the winner or they could totally ignore the voting and just pick their favorite. No one will ever know how the winner was actually selected but I’m guessing the judges just went with the one that got the most votes:

Winner. Prize: A new BMW 3-Series (AVR $38,000):

The winning video seemed to contain clips from a professional BMW commercial but I guess the judges were cool with that. It was still pretty funny and well made and for once “the public” actually picked a great winner. Still, it wasn’t even the best video in the finals. Here’s my favorite finalist:

Now THAT guy really knows how to make the most of 6 seconds!

Chevy to air Mofilm-made commercial across Europe

Beardy — Tue, 27 Mar 2012 13:01:23 +0000

Whenever a winning video contest entry winds up on TV it’s a big deal. For the second time this year, Chevy has decided to start airing a commercial that won one of their Mofilm contests. Last time it was “Happy Grad” which aired during the Super Bowl. This time it’s the Chevy Volt commercial “Zombie Ride” by Josh Soskin. The ad won first place, $8,000 and a trip for two to Spain in Mofilm’s Barcelona competition. It looks like “Zombie Ride” was shot in Southern California but it definitely has a cool, European vibe to it. The spot is scheduled to start airing as part of a “European-wide” campaign in a few weeks. Over the years I’ve probably seen hundreds of video contest entries that featured zombies but this one actually managed to feel totally unique and fresh. I can’t embed the video so click the image to check it out:

Like I said, click this image to view

Pretty awesome, no? Good thing that wasn’t Lori from the Walking Dead driving that Volt otherwise she would have flipped the car after going like 40 feet down the road. If you don’t get that joke you need to watch a lot more TV.

Mayor of Virginia Beach presents key to city to the star of Man’s Best Friend

Beardy — Wed, 21 Mar 2012 14:10:22 +0000

Over the year’s I’ve reported on a lot of really bizarre Video Contest News. But this is story is especially weird. You remember Man’s Best Friend, right? It was the Crash the Super Bowl ad that featured a hilariously gigantic dog that bribed a guy with a bag of Doritos. The commercial wound up being ranked the best ad of the Super Bowl by USA Today’s ad meter (the real one, not the bogus online vote one) and so the creator of the spot, Jonathan Friedman, received a million dollar bonus from Fritolay. Friedman is from Virgina Beach and the town decided to pay tribute to his accomplishment by presenting a key to the city to Huff, the great dane from the ad. Yes, the dog is the one that got the key to the city. If that wasn’t strange enough, the mayor’s office actually made a crazy video about the whole thing. I won’t try describing it. Just watch it and be happy that there are still people and politicians in this country that aren’t afraid to get weird once in a while.

eHarmony “Viral Video” contest winner

Beardy — Sun, 18 Mar 2012 21:58:10 +0000

Man, I must be slipping. EHarmony’s Viral Video contest is just the sort of contest I like to enter. They wanted wacky short films about eHamorny rather than traditional ads. But somehow, I totally missed this one. Judges picked four finalists and then the public chose the ultimate winner. The video that won the popular vote is amusing and pretty well done.

Eharmony’s First Place Winner. Prize: $8,000:

The winning filmmaker, Steven Huffaker actually shot two entries for this contest and his non-winning submission is so weird I had to post it too. As a short film, I think it’s pretty good but as a video contest entry, it’s totally insane. There is no panel of contest judges with balls big enough to put their company’s stamp of approval on a video that points out that Jesus’ death on the cross maybe wasn’t such a big sacrifice since he knew he was the son of God and that he’d be resurrected. Yes…for serious.

UPDATE: Hey now, the director of these two videos left a comment last night and said that the he shot the Jesus ad just for fun. It wasn’t actually a submission. That actually makes me like that video even more than I already did since it was just a crazy short film and not a contest entry.