Next week we should hear whether we made the cut in the Amazon Contest. Unfortunately, we've had problems with Amazon's contests before. Twice we've entered into short film contests with them, and both times, Amazon wasn't prepared for the masses of entries that they received, at least that's what seemed evident to us. Literally, on the second one, we went through every single entry, and never saw our entry. After the two weeks of looking at every entry, we found out our entry was kicked off because it didn't have "enough votes" or something equally as stupid.
This contest, Amazon required that you not have over 100 mb's of video to download. That knocked out out HD version, so we had to download a less than stellar non-HD version. To add to that, there has been no communication with Amazon at all. Not even a saying that they have it.
Oh well, let's hope that we make the top 5, and then you can see it!
Thursday, August 20, 2009
Wednesday, August 5, 2009
Business as usual
TLF has entered a contest with Amazon dot com. The contest was to make a commercial for Amazon, potentially to be shown by them at their whim.
We shot the commercial in an office after hours. We had a role player fade out of the commercial, so we had to recast that role on the fly. The only problem with the commercial was that a 30 second spot is short. You don't realize how short it is until you are on the computer editing the thing. While the commercial didn't lose much content, it was pared down considerably.
We have to make the top 5 of probably hundreds if not thousands of entries, before Amazon will show them. If we make it, we'll link it...if we don't, we'll try to get it on YouTube and/or other video sites.
We also entered into a photo contest with Flex-Fuel. The best way to find them is to go to the People link, click on Most Entries, click on next page, and then click on ChrisW with a photo of Joe Friday Productions. It's easier than it reads! Go to it and vote. You can only vote for one photo each day, so be sure to return! Here's the link: http://www.e85challenge.com/users/browse/false/entries_desc/2/1
We shot the commercial in an office after hours. We had a role player fade out of the commercial, so we had to recast that role on the fly. The only problem with the commercial was that a 30 second spot is short. You don't realize how short it is until you are on the computer editing the thing. While the commercial didn't lose much content, it was pared down considerably.
We have to make the top 5 of probably hundreds if not thousands of entries, before Amazon will show them. If we make it, we'll link it...if we don't, we'll try to get it on YouTube and/or other video sites.
We also entered into a photo contest with Flex-Fuel. The best way to find them is to go to the People link, click on Most Entries, click on next page, and then click on ChrisW with a photo of Joe Friday Productions. It's easier than it reads! Go to it and vote. You can only vote for one photo each day, so be sure to return! Here's the link: http://www.e85challenge.com/users/browse/false/entries_desc/2/1
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