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I just can’t help myself from sharing this with you guys:
I guess my point here is that in this day in age you can make ads out of anything. It’s all about the mashup these days - taking bits and pieces of culture and media and slapping them together in a whole new way. Awesome.
Tags: viral, video, advertising, creative inspiration, mashup, barack obama, bollywood
It’s about that time again, folks. The most fun part of our jobs, giving away money! *drum roll, please*
And the Grand Prize winner of $1500 for Best Amazing Pitch goes to:
Flash Mob by BeauChevassus
Congratulations, Beau! We love the concept and think your idea would make a pretty awesome and creative web series.
Five videos were chosen as Runners Up. Each of these videomakers are getting a brand new Sanyo Xacti E1 or $500 for their efforts. Congratulations, everyone! They are (in no particular order):
It was so hard to just pick out 6 winners, so we do want to mention a few others that we loved. Here are 5 more videos that we will be taking with us to Broadband Enterprises to attempt some dealmaking. Congratulations to all you Honorable Mentions!
Tags: video, webisodes, winners, contest, xlntads, amazing pitch
We’re almost done with our chocolate and caramel induced snack attack, er, I mean commercial assignment. Have you uploaded your video yet? If not, we hope to see it in the mix soon. We’re pushing 100+ entries already and so many of them are great! Have a look yourself!
We’re accepting videos through the weekend, but we’re definitely cutting it off on Monday morning at 9am (February 18).
Also, if you’ve already done the 100 Grand assignment and you’re looking for something else to do, have a look at our newest one out the gate: Net10 No Evil. We think you’ll like it, and it’ll really put your filmmaking skills to the test. Good luck!
Tags: video, advertising, 100 grand, xlntads, news, deadline
Today is the deadline for The Amazing Pitch II and we’d love to see your series pilot in on the action! We have some awesome entries already, but you still have a few hours to get yours uploaded.
We’re giving away $1500 to the best video, and $500 to 5 runners-up. But more importantly, we’ll be optioning the best submissions and taking them around to our many brand partners and working deals to get your show sponsored. You could get $30,000 to develop a 6-part series!
While you’re thinking about how to polish up those final edits, I’ll leave you with a pretty wild success story I’ve been reading about today thanks to a tip from Steve Bryant at Reel Pop. Three young guys in New York made a no-budget video series last year in their apartment called “We Need Girlfriends“. After millions of views, thousands of fans and a handful of YouTube and MySpaceTV front page features, their show got bought by CBS in a development deal. Wow!
The New York Times just published a pretty cool backstory about how these guys made their show successful. It’s a fantastic read. If you’re looking for some inspiration, this is it! Here, watch the first episode:
Tags: amazing pitch, xlntads, video, series, we need girlfriends, sponsorship
[click to watch at no-evil.net]
This is one of the short films made for Net10’s No Evil Campaign. Our latest assignment at XLNTads is to follow Net10’s lead and find heros in your world. We want you to make a mini-documentary about them, similar this this video, and upload it to our site for your chance to earn some money for your work.
We’re excited and proud to be partnering up with Net10 - they’ve got a great phone service and a fantastic ad campaign. I’m sure lots of the videos you make will have a great positive impact, and add valuable short films to your portfolio. I can’t wait to see the stories you tell.
If you have some extra time, check out their ‘evil’ videos, too. Awesomeness!
Tags: advertising, net10, phones, heros, video, xlntads, news
It’s a no brainer to look to a guy like Michel Gondry for inspiration. The man’s been blowing the doors of visual creativity for years. He’s a genius (see Eternal Sunshine of a Spotless Mind), but how about this awesomeness!? He went ahead and remade his own trailer for his upcoming film Be Kind Rewind. So DIY, so fun, so lo-fi! We love it. See, you don’t need a million bucks to make a commercial. (Thanks for the tip, IndyMogul!)
Tags: michel gondy, video, be kind rewind, funny, creative inspiration
