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Community => General Discussion => Topic started by: DW on January 23, 2007, 08:38:47 PM

Title: I am entering a contest
Post by: DW on January 23, 2007, 08:38:47 PM
It is a music video contest, me and three of my friends are doing it. if we get first then we get $25,000. Voting starts in March, so around then I may be asking those of you with Youtube accounts to vote for us...it's to the song New Numa, and we are going to start filming this weekend. so I will basically try and keep this thread updated with the latest developments in our quest for glory, and putting up the videos we make to get advice and such.

FIRST DAY

we put in 4 hours of work and got less than a minute of usable footage and ten minutes of botched takes. I guess we'll have a blooper reel ;)

Mostly we couldn't figure out how to get the video camera to work, turned out we had the wrong film. Got that fixed, then jesse kept messing around with everything during the intro, and dropped the drum pads on my foot. once again, blooper reel. As soon as I figure out how to get everything on the computer I will do that.


SECOND DAY
we have all the actiony stuff done now, so the rest will be much easier, and there won't be so many outtakes.
Title: Re:I am entering a contest
Post by: bgrugby on January 23, 2007, 09:04:20 PM
Well here is a cookie for you and a good luck.
Title: Re:I am entering a contest
Post by: DW on January 23, 2007, 09:20:05 PM
yay,cookie!  ::) I will not tell them of this..actually I told Levi, he's hoping we'll get lots of votes from here, he's scared of two other videos that might beat us.
Title: Re:I am entering a contest
Post by: oracle on January 24, 2007, 06:30:29 AM
good luck, win for all of desert colossus
Title: Re:I am entering a contest
Post by: MasterKeyX on January 24, 2007, 07:01:18 AM
It's like the lottery, you never know. :)

Good luck, and win one for the team!
Title: Re:I am entering a contest
Post by: DW on January 24, 2007, 07:01:46 AM
agh, now I'm under pressure  :-X
Title: Re:I am entering a contest
Post by: MasterKeyX on January 24, 2007, 07:04:20 AM
PRESSUREEEEE...

Lol, no pressure buddy, just enter and see how it goes :)
Title: Re:I am entering a contest
Post by: DW on January 24, 2007, 07:06:14 AM
yeah...we were trying to film yesterday but one of my friends had too much homework.
Title: Re:I am entering a contest
Post by: MasterKeyX on January 24, 2007, 07:09:16 AM
Pfffsht, homework, who cares, this is money we're talking about! :D
Title: Re:I am entering a contest
Post by: DW on January 24, 2007, 07:11:48 AM
that's what we said. Plus we are going to be using said money to fly one of our friends who is filming with us back from Kansas in the summers. He's moving in a month or so, so we need to film now.
Title: Re:I am entering a contest
Post by: Gamefreak on January 24, 2007, 04:13:29 PM
Homework < The prospect of getting 25,000 dollars.

It pretty much weighs out.
Title: Re:I am entering a contest
Post by: JDog on January 24, 2007, 06:21:18 PM
Go get em nara, your going to kick their butts, if I had a youtube acount, I would vote for you guys. :D
Title: Re:I am entering a contest
Post by: DW on January 24, 2007, 09:28:44 PM
you can make one in two minutes, it's free nad easy...turns out STephen didn't even do his homework, I had to help him finish it today >:(
Title: Re:I am entering a contest
Post by: oracle on January 25, 2007, 08:05:22 AM
that blows, i hope you win :)
Title: Re:I am entering a contest
Post by: Mysterious F. on January 25, 2007, 02:43:58 PM
Well that wasn't very nice of him.
Title: Re:I am entering a contest
Post by: Zelda Veteran on January 25, 2007, 03:37:36 PM
I have an account, but i cant figure out how to save videos. If anyonen knows, please tell me where and how to save a video clip. And I will definately vote for you man, win for TDC! Dont worry man, we're all behind you, and I'll inform a whole bunch of my cousins who visit youtube often of the competiton. By the way, how many entrants are there so far?
Title: Re:I am entering a contest
Post by: DW on January 25, 2007, 03:40:49 PM
hmm....it says there are a few hundred contestants listed, bu we see only 150 videos or so, and like twenty are by the same guy.

I figue I should probably list the site that this contest is at:

http://www.newnuma.com

Thanks for your support guys.
Title: Re:I am entering a contest
Post by: MasterKeyX on January 25, 2007, 05:44:34 PM
We should have a rally for you! Except it'd be in several different states...
Title: Re:I am entering a contest
Post by: DW on January 25, 2007, 09:54:37 PM
that's good...GLOBAL DOMINATION! ;D

seriously though, we are trying to advertise as much as possible...we begin filming tomorrow, I just thought of a great opening so I need to tell them...
Title: Re:I am entering a contest
Post by: MasterKeyX on January 26, 2007, 07:14:06 AM
Don't oyu need some money for this kind of thing?
Title: Re:I am entering a contest
Post by: DW on January 26, 2007, 08:52:16 AM
nope. We already have a camera, and we can make props with the stuff around the house. If we hired an actor we wouldn't get to keep any of the 25 grand anyways...
Title: Re:I am entering a contest
Post by: MasterKeyX on January 26, 2007, 09:44:02 AM
No, I mean dont you need money to enter the contest in the first place?
Title: Re:I am entering a contest
Post by: DW on January 26, 2007, 10:00:08 AM
nope. It was free, lucky break for us
Title: Re:I am entering a contest
Post by: MasterKeyX on January 26, 2007, 10:35:55 AM
Lucky for you, lucky for you. You may actually have a chance.
Title: Re:I am entering a contest
Post by: DW on January 26, 2007, 11:26:38 AM
wow, thanks for the support. That was a little less enthusiastic then I expected. I wish Stephen would wake up, it's eleven thirty for crying out loud...
Title: Re:I am entering a contest
Post by: MagmarFire on January 26, 2007, 04:15:06 PM
SN, I wish you the best of luck! :D

As said before, win this contest for TDC! :D
Title: Re:I am entering a contest
Post by: DW on January 26, 2007, 04:17:32 PM
ugh..we didn't get to film today. I told everyone we would start today, they all agreed to it, and now today I left messages and sent emails and everything ut I can't get a hold of ANYBODY!
Title: Re:I am entering a contest
Post by: Rev Rabies on January 26, 2007, 05:06:32 PM
my votes are 1000 dollars apiece
Title: Re:I am entering a contest
Post by: Pyrgusfinn on January 26, 2007, 05:31:45 PM
good luck.  let me know when you do get it up for voting.  i have an account.
Title: Re:I am entering a contest
Post by: DW on January 26, 2007, 05:32:26 PM
well there is no voting til March 11th
Title: Re:I am entering a contest
Post by: Pyrgusfinn on January 26, 2007, 05:38:04 PM
i know, just promising a vote in advandce.  ill forget before then.
Title: Re:I am entering a contest
Post by: MasterKeyX on January 27, 2007, 08:25:11 AM
If you remind us, maybe we'll all vote for you. :D
Title: Re:I am entering a contest
Post by: DW on January 27, 2007, 10:36:43 AM
Okay, I'll have WOlf Link post continous topics counting down to voting time.
Title: Re:I am entering a contest
Post by: Hylian Reploid on January 30, 2007, 10:42:03 AM
Wow, $25,000?  You could buy a brand new car and still have money left over!  Do you have anything specific in mind if you do win?  Who's sponsoring the contest?
Title: Re:I am entering a contest
Post by: DW on January 30, 2007, 04:47:20 PM
Gary Brolsma and some other company are sponsoring it...first in line is tickets so we can fly our friend who's moving next week back here in the summers.Then I'm thinking a Wii, DS, and PSP, maybe a drumset. Stephen wants a new dirtbike and then who knows what, and Levi hasn't said anything. oh yeah, a really sweet airsoft gun would be nice...
Title: Re:I am entering a contest
Post by: MasterKeyX on January 30, 2007, 05:10:58 PM
Good luck trying to find a Wii.

The DS, however, should be easy to get. Just be sure to get a DS  Lite, they made much better than the original.

Oh, and be sure to buy your buddy MasterKey a TV.

:P
Title: Re:I am entering a contest
Post by: DW on January 30, 2007, 06:09:18 PM
What happened to your TV, threw your controller? Don't worry, we have a spare handheld 5 inch monitor you can have...
Title: Re:I am entering a contest
Post by: MasterKeyX on January 31, 2007, 01:29:20 PM
No, actually, my brother broke the power button and it's a 5 year old piece of garbage. And, not only that, it's low quality. So I could use a new one.... ;D
Title: Re:I am entering a contest
Post by: DW on January 31, 2007, 03:29:44 PM
I see. I may just help you out there...No excuses for not being able to film this weekend, if they aren't there I will drill holes in their achilles tendons and string them from the ceiling.
Title: Re:I am entering a contest
Post by: Hi no Seijin on March 04, 2007, 04:30:28 PM
Kind of harsh.  Now you may update, Shikamaru.  Although I'm sure the mods wouldn't mind you double posting here since it is an update.
Title: Re:I am entering a contest
Post by: DW on March 04, 2007, 04:33:50 PM
nothing is to harsh in showbiz.

and maybe, but I don't want to take any chances.

anyways, we cut Levi out of it because he kept canceling on us at the last minute, today was the last straw. Stephen and Jesse are coming over now and we will commence filming shortly.

EDIT: Okay, we finished filming for the day, details on the front page.
Title: Re:I am entering a contest
Post by: MasterKeyX on March 05, 2007, 04:10:27 PM
So you really think you have a good chance of winning, huh?
Title: Re:I am entering a contest
Post by: JDog on March 05, 2007, 04:20:20 PM
You better win, or you don't get this very big cookie that will last you a life time. lol
Title: Re:I am entering a contest
Post by: DW on March 05, 2007, 04:31:36 PM
I think we do have a good chance, a lot of the videos are just stupid, ours is actually creative.  We are almost done with the hunting part...then we have to film all the dancing and band scenes.
Title: Re:I am entering a contest
Post by: MasterKeyX on March 05, 2007, 04:42:42 PM
What about the Kung-fu scene? Everbody loves Karate. :D
Title: Re:I am entering a contest
Post by: DW on March 05, 2007, 04:45:31 PM
We actually have one. :-[
Title: Re:I am entering a contest
Post by: JDog on March 05, 2007, 04:51:53 PM
You actually have a kung fu scene? lol I wanna see it when its done! lol
Title: Re:I am entering a contest
Post by: DW on March 05, 2007, 04:59:44 PM
It is short, but yeah.
Title: Re:I am entering a contest
Post by: Mysterious F. on March 05, 2007, 05:01:07 PM
He laso took a scene from the foreign music video 'Moskau' and followed their dancing.  :-[
Title: Re:I am entering a contest
Post by: DW on March 05, 2007, 05:12:14 PM
and much, much more, so order now!
Title: Re:I am entering a contest
Post by: JDog on March 05, 2007, 05:50:39 PM
Quote from: Shikamaru Nara on March 05, 2007, 04:59:44 PM
It is short, but yeah.
So who gets beat up in this kung-fu scene thing? lol
Title: Re:I am entering a contest
Post by: DW on March 05, 2007, 06:36:56 PM
Stephen. it's fun, I go all kung-fu on him...we kept messing up and took four takes...it was so fun, but he had the crap beat out of him so he wasn't very happy...
Title: Re:I am entering a contest
Post by: MasterKeyX on March 06, 2007, 07:28:20 AM
I would LOVE to see thsi video.... sounds muy funny. :)
Title: Re:I am entering a contest
Post by: DW on March 06, 2007, 03:12:25 PM
it needs a lot of editing and such...we have more of a blooper reel than anything... I will probably make a movie of Stephen being beat up over and over and over...poor kid...