4/03/07 - Contest Winner!Hello Everyone,
After a month of deliberation and much back and forth we have chosen a winner! Selecting a winner was extremely difficult given the amount of high quality and imaginative videos ranging from from original narratives, mash-ups, abstract moving imagery, animations and more. We'd like to sincerely thank EVERYONE who participated in the contest, there was an amazing array of talent displayed.
Without further ado, the winner is...
Calvin Fredrick’s “In The Morning” video for constructive usage of stop animation, production magnitude, seamless use of mixed media, accessibility, art direction, concept, and last but not least the comments and ratings of the community.
Calvin Fredrick’s video is “one of the most unique videos I have seen in a while. Amazingly choreographed, I am afraid to ask how much time was put into this.” Said Chris Green producer, Video Vinyl.
For winning the contest Calvin will receive a crisp cheque for $1000.00 and exposure on Video Vinyl, a weekly music video show that NETA will begin distributing nationally in September 2007 to all 348 stations in the Public Television Network.
Jeremy Greenspan of Junior Boys writes:
"So when the bros over at Domino HQ told me that they were going to put together a video competition, i figured that judging it would be a pretty easy job. I expected maybe two submissions, both would be somebody's face and some sort of final cut morphing filter over it making it look trippy...and i could just judge who looked weirder, or who was hotter or something like that. I had no idea that people were actually going to make real videos. So by the end there were over thirty videos...all of them, better than anything I expected, and a few of them really brilliant. We are of course thrilled, humbled and shocked that we have such terrific fans who would take the time to participate in another one of our crazy schemes. Some of you may have been experienced filmmakers and perhaps some of you were doing it for the first time, either way i sincerely hope that our material was somewhat inspiring, and that the experience was rewarding and worthwhile. We are so happy that all of you participated, meanwhile the torture of trying to choose a winner has made it evidently clear to me that i don't really want to do another one of these things in the future. Much love, much respect, and my sincerest gratitude to you all.
Jeremy Greenspan"
"Overall, I was blown away by the quality of the submissions. We knew there would be at least one video that would ultimately work on the show, but in the end there were close to a dozen videos that I would program in a heartbeat if they came through the door. I am glad the final decision of a winner did not rest solely in my hands as I was truly torn among three––each of them completely different from the others." Chris Green, Producer Video Vinyl
Because of the high level of video submissions we'd like to highlight FIVE runner-ups and reward them with a Junior Boys and Domino Records prize pack. The runner-ups are Will Patton's "FM" video, Kenny Jensen and William Haun's video for "Caught In A Wave", Tyler Crelia's "Count Souvenirs" video, Ryan Babcock and Greg Wotski's "So This Is Goodbye" video and Andrea Sorrentino's video for "Double Shadow".
Watch the winning and runner-up videos now!
