Cancelling Moby contest

Well we aren't doing the Moby contest after all. Due to my work schedule and Ben is going through some rough times at home right now. Hopefully Moby will do this again and next time we'll be more prepared and have more time to work at it.

Spike Jonze style

Thinking about simple, I like spike jonze' stuff. Check out some of my favorite videos by him:



Fat Boy Slim - Weapon of Choice

Brainstorming Moby Ideas

2 days left of brainstorming and pre-production left. Ben, Dalin and I all brainstormed ideas last night and after saying all of these ideas we liked, Ben and I have come to the conclusion that we need to try and keep things as simple as possible.

With that in mind let's post inspirations/ideas to the blog and post feedback in the comment area. Let's try and solidify an idea today and plan and gather materials tomorrow.

Moby MV contest!

So Ben had a great find yesterday! It's a Moby music video contest!
Song's pretty good and this allows us really open to creativity. Problem... it's due July 14th, which means 2 weeks from today... not a whole lot of time, but I think we can do it!

Contest site

So if we are going to plan to attack this correctly, I say 3 days of planning, 3 days of filming, and 8 days to edit and reshoot. Sound good? Let's get crackin (psst...btw, friday is 4th of july a proper time to shoot film no?)

Long time forgot to announce

Sorry about that but i forgot to announce we LOST the Two Loons for Tea Music video contest. :(

Here are the winners:



It was a fun contest and we did win something out of it. We got ourselves a $10 gift card to the iTunes store.

We're thinking about entering another contest soon. So keep posted

potentially bad news

So I'm pretty scared about online voting, especially with this monkey contest. So i found out that you can work the system with Safari. So if you vote, then reset Safari, and finally go back to the website, you're able to vote another time. Meaning the thing that checks for votes is client side, not server side. So anybody can vote as many times as they want. Kind of sucks.

I'm going to send an email to the record company and tell them about this hole and make sure they have a contingency plan against it.

FINALLY!!! Voting for Two Loons for Tea contest has begun!!

Hey what's up!

Well the two loons for tea contest (remember that one way back in January?) well the deadline has finally come and now it is time for you guys to vote for our video!

here's the link straight to our voting page:

http://www.sarathan.com/monkeyvideocontest/voting-pages/video11fs.html

now you can check out the rest of the videos at:
http://www.sarathan.com/monkeyvideocontest/

So PLEASE we need your votes!

Thanks!

Also check out our youtube link if you really want to

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z_p5Cw7cYQo&eurl=http://www.sarathan.com/monkeyvideocontest/voting-pages/f-v11.html

Dos Lunes Commercial Contest

Hey everyone...

We're going to try and enter another video competition and this time it's the Dos Lunas Tequila comp.
http://doslunas.com/videocontest/

So we'll be brainstorming on the blog again and we'd love to hear your comments.

POM FAIL!

That's right my POM commercial didn't make it to the top 10 :( oh well. There's one out there that completely beat me out on ridiculousness. Which is pretty awesome. I hope this guy wins.



Anyway first loss for me in awhile. Here's my postmortem for the video:

Things that went right:

Lighting: I bought some halogen lamps that helped a ton! I'm really glad i got those and they helped a ton with lighting and everything.

Sticking with what I know: I first tried using my mac to edit the video, but I ended up trying to figure out new ways to things I already knew how to do. So, I ended up going back to my PC and finished up everything within a few days. So yea stay with what I know how to use.

Matt and Bryson: They helped out a lot and they knew their parts pretty well.

Things that went wrong:
Using a battery with only 6 min of life on it: Made me rush, made me not think clearly on what I needed, did less takes of things I needed

Music: Again tried to use Garageband and ended up just using the stuff I already had. Wish I did this earlier. The tasting music kind of sucked, but that was the only thing that i had that remotely had anything to what I wanted.

Comedy isn't quite my forte, but I learned that the more ridiculous I make it the more funny it should be. For this, I tried to make it something in between. Something serious at first, to something very silly at the end. Didn't fly to well i guess.

So there you have it! Hopefully we'll do super awesome on the monkey video and do something amazing the next

Picking up from where we left off

You all probably know, the Two Loons for Tea contest has now been extended to the end of March. It's kind of a relief and kinda stressing at the same time to know the fact that we've got plenty of time to polish what we've got, but then we've got a project that isn't finished yet. Check it out.


Two Loons For Tea - Music Video Entry from Benjamin C on Vimeo.

The password is: sled


In the meantime, I've decided that I want to add more to my slowly growing video profile. I think a professional looking commercial would be nice. Here's an ad that I found and absolutely adore! http://www.milienzo.com/2007/07/10/epuron-advert-will-make-you-smile/

We're still here

Hey sorry... long time no post.

So here's what has happened the pass month (wow, it's been that long!)

Two Loons for Tea:
We've been butting heads on this one a lot and we finally settled on an idea.
The story is a woman who gives away a life long friend, her stuffed animal monkey. The music video progresses shows all the good times that her and her monkey have had. In the end you see that the monkey ends up being passed on to another little girl.

The good news is we turned out a really good music video and all that jazz, however, the contest has been extended to March. We have some minor fixes we want to refilm, so we aren't showing you guys it yet.... Well ben might, but i'm not ^_^

POM Tea:
So I really wanted to get more than one contest in. So once I got done filming the Two loons for tea commercial, I sought out to make my own POM Commercial.

The premise, what happens when you mix POM Tea with the movie 300? My Commercial!
check it out below: