Video Scoring Contest (Results are IN)

The results are in: Piotr Musial is the winner! Also, check the last post for more details and info. Thanks!

Hey fellow composers,

I wanted to share with all of you a composition contest I've pulled together. For more info or to download the video please go to this link:

New Composition Contest (NOW OPEN) - GameDev.Net Discussion Forums

Here are the details:

Basic Details:

The contest starts today (May 21st, 2008) and will end on June 21, 2008. Each contestant will score music (style of their choice) to the short film Luftwaffles by William Barr. The film last 1:21 (excluding the credits) and 1:28 if you include the credits. The film is funny, light hearted and features several opportunities for style and pace changes in the music. Feel free to be as creative as you'd like!

The Idea:

Hold a composition contest where any composer can take a stab at composing to a short film, then have objective and constructive feedback given back to them by industry professionals during the judging process. After this, hold an open meeting for all of the composers who took part (and any judges willing to give their time) where each composer can exchange ideas, feedback and thoughts on all of the submissions. (To me this is probably the most valuable part!)

I will be moderating the feedback and open forum after the contest and judging are concluded. It is my hope that all will take part in that since a good deal of feedback and discussion will be held.

The Short Film:

As noted above, William Barr was kind enough to share this video clip for this contest. His website is William Barr | Online Portfolio | Welcome. He is a 3rd year student at the Swansea Institute studying 3D computer animation.

The Panel:

I'm very excited about the panel that has been assembled for this competition! Please note that I'll mainly be fulfilling the organization and moderating role. Unless needed, I'll not be actually judging the pieces to avoid having an even number of judges (to help avoid the case of a tie). We have:

Aaron Marks- Since 1995, his company has been creating original music, sound effects and dialog for video games, radio, television, film and all things multimedia. Aaron Marks and his staff of highly skilled artisans have combined credits on over 300 video game projects, films and theater productions throughout the world! He is also the author of the fantastic book The Complete Guide to Game Audio- which I highly recommend to anyone wanting to be a professional video game composer!

Aaron Marks - On Your Mark Music Productions - (760)723-3623

Will Loconto- With almost 20 years in the recording and videogame industries, Will Loconto brings a comprehensive body of knowledge, experience, and creativity to his work. He was lead vocalist/songwriter for T42 (Columbia Records) and spent several years with Information Society (Reprise Records). In the game industry, Will has served as Audio Director at two companies (ION Storm and Third Law Interactive). With over 20 published titles, Will Loconto has a proven track record of top quality products and on-time delivery. He has been a featured lecturer at Southern Methodist University

Wonderful! Sounds like an exciting thing to do alongside the EW one. :)

Vunderful! Ze Lufvafes sound mighty fine. Hilarious film. I'm in.

Awesome little movie. Will we have to work around the source music?

No if you go to the first link I posted you'll see the video links that only have the sound design and dialog in them. You do not have to score around any pre-existing music score. :) Great to see people interested!

The link you need to download the videos (and get more info) is here: New Composition Contest (NOW OPEN) - GameDev.Net Discussion Forums

Thanks,

Nathan

I'm definitely in for this. I love making music with an obvious purpose, like a filmscore. This is going to be fun!

I'm in! I've never scored a movie bofore though, but I'll try my best;)

Nathan, whats your e-mail so I can send the file with YouSendIt? You can e-mail me at Justin_Tokke@msn.com

omg i am IN

this is my first time trying anything like this

Here's my submission :

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hope this works, and I look forward to viewing everyone's!

do you need any other material, or just the vid?

so... is there anything happening now? I've been the only one to post here for days, and I've got no responses.

The contest is over. See this link where the contest was started:

New Composition Contest (Closed- now judging) - GameDev.Net Discussion Forums

Jordan,

Justin is quite right: you should have checked the link I gave out for the official contest rules, media and basic info. There you would have seen the official ending date and it was also posted here. Finally you would have seen that I sent out reminders that the deadline was fast approaching and then that the deadline had past and the judging process was beginning.

Thank you,

Nathan

Also, I had suggested to everyone that they keep their name (or at least screen name) in the file name of their entry. Several people have not done this and it makes it much harder to keep things organized. Keep in mind that I have many submissions to go through as well as my own day-to-day work and personal life to attend to. Putting your name in the file name would have helped out greatly.

Bah, I missed it! Never knew there was a contest like this. Good luck!

Hey,

Please note: I'm posting this here just in case some folks are not checking the gamedev.net thread (which is the official thread for this contest).

Update: All of the entries and judging materials have been delivered to the judges. From there I'm going to give them some space since they're all professionals, having busy schedules and were nice enough to judge in the first place. So, I don't have a cut off date for the judging, but I don't think it will take too long.

I'll keep all of you posted on the progress and then will post the results as soon as they are ready! Based on the strong response (overall) I really hope to do more of these with other kinds of videos. Would all of you be interested?

Thanks,

Nathan

Hey,

Based on the strong response (overall) I really hope to do more of these with other kinds of videos. Would all of you be interested?

I'd be in anytime again! This was my first attempt scoring a video and I thought it was pretty cool. The Luftwaffles video was really marvellous for a firts try! It's great of you actually to give us the opportunity to do stuff like this and that you take your time for us.

I'm really looking forward to doing more of it. Tanks again:)

Oli

i'd definately be up to doing another!

I'll do another one!

I'm certainly up for another.

Great to hear guys! I'll take a bit of time in between contest, then start coordinating the next round. I'll keep all of you informed!

Nathan

I do hope there will be another one of these

has the winner been decided? i'm sorry if i missed it somewhere, but... is there a winner yet?

No. No winner has been chosen yet.

thank you