If you’re in the Philadelphia area this weekend, why not stop by the Mashable + IndyHall Mixer! It’s promising to be one heck of a good party. Come meet the Poptent crew and some great folks from the Philly tech scene.
Details
Date: Friday, May 1st, 2009
Time: 8:00 pm till close
Location: Cavanaugh’s River Deck, 417 N Columbus Blvd, Philadelphia, PA 19123 (map)
Tickets: Open Admission, 21+ only please
Why?: Meet Mashable and IndyHall, $5 drink specials and it’s a Friday night!
I’m proud to say, the Poptent community has hit yet another grand slam! The folks in the marketing department at Out Pets, maker of the excellent Flappy Dog Toys, were blown away by how great all your videos came out for their Flappy Commercial Assignment. Instead of just 3 videos, they went for 4 commercials for $2000 each. They told us they wanted to buy 20 if they could afford to! Great work, everyone!
Every month we sort through the many fantastic demo reels uploaded to the Poptent network and pick out our favorites. We hope that every member of Poptent works on developing their professional and artistic appeal by compiling a well-done demo of their work. Have you uploaded your demo reel yet? Be sure to submit it to the Reel of the Month assignment for consideration.
Here, now we pick the best Demo Reel uploaded to Poptent for the month of March 2009. This month’s winner of the $500 award goes to:
Honorable mentions and big kudos to these reels as well. Applause all around! Support these artists by following them on Poptent and hiring them for work in your city!
You’ve released your collective inner diablos on the Callaway assignment on Poptent, but now you’d like to know - who the heck wins the clubs? Out of the ten finalists, one has already been bought by Callaway and the following videos are being awarded for their excellence in craft, message and creativity. Good job, all!
The Top Award of $1000 cash and a set of Big Bertha Woods for best Callaway commercial goes to:
Two creators are being awarded $500 each plus a set of Big Bertha Woods. They are:
And last, but not least, this finalist will be receiving a set of Big Bertha Woods, courtesy of Callaway.
* Volition Studios created their video without the benefit of having a Diablo Driver club as a prop and were previously awarded the 5th set of clubs in time for their reshoot.
With nearly 100 excellent submissions, (two of which have been purchased by Stouffer’s already!) picking the award winners for the Stromboli and Flatbread Melts Assignment on Poptent wasn’t nearly as easy as whipping up a Corner Bistro meal in the oven! We sweat over these like cookin’ over a hot stove. But in the end, a few commercials simmered to the top.
Without further ado, the top award of $1000 goes to:
The two runner up awards of $500 each go to:
Congratulations, all! Such fantastic work came out of this assignment, and you were the cream of the crop. Can’t wait to see more of your work on our next commercial assignments!
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We’re excited to announce that Callaway has selected to purchase a video from the Poptent creative community and the commercial video assignment they ran earlier this year. They really loved the work of Volition Studios’Justin Spence and not only paid him $5000 for his effort, but also commissioned him to create additional work!
Remarkably, Justin made his excellent first draft of the video without having one of the Diablo drivers to use as a prop. For the reshoot, Callaway sent him an entire bag of clubs (lucky guy!) and had him redo the scenes at the driving range. Here’s the video, recut:
Congratulations, Justin! Thanks for making such great work at Poptent.
