24hr Music Video Making Contest for tha Holla-Days 2006

by team indyish

Holla-Days MVMC: Dec 16-17 2006.

24hr MVMC - Get a song, make a video. How hard can it be?

Video makers: You can help us give some great bands an awesome holiday gift, and gain some exposure and experience for yourself, by spending one night making your best music video. Amateurs and Pros and surprising concepts and techniques are more than welcome. Videos will be watched and judged by members of the 3 bands. Each band picks a winner, which will get screened the night of the party where the bands will all play.

Partners:

Pop Montreal is bringing the bands: local booty-bass dirty synth rap duo, ThunderHeist, minimal electrofolk witty wordists, Bold Saber, and funky posing princess, Giselle Numba One. The bands get to choose which of their recorded songs they’d like a music video made for. Many thanks go out to everyone involved in making this event happen.

There will be three winning teams, one for each band.

Three winners, three prize packs. Prize packs will include Posters, t’s, c.d’s, Arcade Fire posters + Unicorns shirts and lots more surprising stuff donated by POP Montreal.

All the videos that get made will be posted on Indyish.com, with the artists names and team names prominent. They can also be posted by you or me or anyone on YouTube, Jumpcut, Revver, Myspace, your space and anywhere and everywhere else you can think of, maybe even go viral and make you famous, because of their CC Attribution license (see note on licenses below).

All the videos that get made will also be screened at a wrap party Dec 20th, where they’ll ALL be considered by special guest judge Maxime Giroux.

Indyish bloggers will take note of all his comments and get them online so everyone can learn from this successful professional music video makin artist.

International Participation in this MVMC is welcomed and encouraged.

The Rules:

Register your team by purchasing a ticket in advance for $5.00 (click “add item” on this page), or by coming to Club Lambi [map] on Saturday Dec 16 at 12pm to register your team in person ($10.00 at the door).
The size and shape of your team is entirely up to you.
You must have your own equipment. Beg steal or borrow. Or use a camera phone! You can use whatever format you like, but in the end you must be able to get it onto DVD.
You have 24 hours to shoot, edit, and burn your Music Video to DVD format. You don’t get to find out which of the 3 bands you’ll be making this video for until the contest begins.
You cannot shoot the band. But you can use photos, if you can find them online.
You can use footage you already have, or stock footage, or shoot something new. You must have the right to use that footage. (There is public footage available online in the Prelinger Archives and in the Open Source motion picture section of the Internet Archive.org).
The bands and their judges will be looking for a video that really works with their song, and the feeling and rhythm of their music. Please keep this in mind, and be respectful of their work and of the organization that is unleashing you on the public.
You must include credits. These must have the Song name, the Band name, your name(s), and that the video was made for an Indyish Event.

How it Works:

The contest officially begins at 12pm on Saturday Dec 16 2006. We will be handing out CD’s to registered music video making teams at Club Lambi until 4pm.
Registered teams can arrange to have their song emailed to them instead, if necessary.
Each team will receive one song- by either ThunderHeist, Bold Saber or Giselle Numba One. Each team will have 24hrs to make the music video for the song they receive.
Completed music videos must be burned to DVD format and returned to Club Lambi or put online somewhere (youtube, etc) and have the link sent to us. by 12pm Sunday Dec 17 2006. We will allow a 2 hour buffer, but will stop accepting videos at 2pm to start judging.

Important:

TERMS

Participation in the project (ie submitting a video) constitutes agreement to the following:

The results of the indyish 24 Hour Music Video Making Challenge are licensed with a Creative Commons Attribution license, which allows Indyish and anyone else to use the combination of music video and song in their own ways, even commercial or mashup ways, so long as they attribute the work properly.
This license will only affect the final, “submitted” version of the video. Any subsequent edits made by the original video makers and the band, constitute a new work, which is owned by a limited partnership between these participants. It is up to these parties to discuss future terms of use. If you get actors involved, they must also agree to these terms.

Notes:

1. The cost to see the Show in the evening will be $7.00 (general admission). MVMC participants will receive a $2.00 discount on their show ticket at the door.

2. Holiday Bonus: Indyish will subtract $1.00 off the Show ticket price for every non-perishable food item you bring with you to the door. These will be collected and included in the Mile End Mission Christmas Baskets.

3. Also, if you can’t get your video to convert to DVD format, bring it in anyway and we’ll try and help you, or play it off the camera (but there’s no guarantees).