The Weird Al Polka Project!

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The Weird Al Polka Project!

Postby jbone » Wed Aug 23, 2006 11:24 pm

1. How to join:

It's easy to participate in The Polka Project! No need to sign up anywhere - just make a video following the guidelines below, and PM me when it's done! It's that simple.


2. Project description:

Each of Weird Al Yankovic's albums features a polka "medley" of songs. For the Polka Project, simply take a segment of one of Weird Al's polkas (one part of the medley) and make a music video out of it.

You may use ANY segment from ANY of his polkas! You don't need to "reserve" segments. By the very nature of the project, repetition of audio with different video may just work.

All the segments will be seamlessly combined together, making a single, extended polka video.

I look forward to false endings and restarts, too, so feel free to use the beginning or ending of a polka.


3. Rules:

a. Deadline: July 1, 2007

b. Framerate: 23.976fps progressive (no interlacing allowed)

c. Compression: Lossless AVIs only. Lossless formats include Huffyuv, Lagarith, and Uncompressed; other lossless codecs may be accepted, please ask if you wish to sibmit in a different lossless format.

d. Audio: uncompressed 44.1KHz CD rip. No mp3 source audio, it'll screw up the recombining of the clips.

e. Each video clip MUST include a few seconds of the polka audio segments BEFORE AND AFTER the segment you're submitting, so that clips can be fitted together seamlessly. (The exception is, of course, if you're using the first or the last segment of a polka.)

f. There is no set limit of submissions per person, so submit as many segments as you want to make. However, if you send lots of good ones, some may need to be cut due to time/fairness/some other valid reason.

g. I reserve the right to reject anything that sucks ass.

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I do not currently have an FTP server, but I can look into setting one up if it looks like we'll need one.

PM me with questions, or post below.

Get editing, people!


(p.s. all tpyos are intentional)
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Postby godix » Thu Aug 24, 2006 1:09 am

Sounds entertaining. Put me down as interested.
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Postby celibi87 » Thu Aug 24, 2006 1:13 am

Im interested but willhave to get the cds before i can do anythng.
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Postby Willen » Thu Aug 24, 2006 2:00 am

I'm interested.

This has AMV parody written all over it. Too bad Weird Al didn't do a Frou Frou polka segment... :wink:
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Postby AMV_4000 » Thu Aug 24, 2006 10:01 am

Hentai Polka?? (interested)
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Postby Krisqo » Thu Aug 24, 2006 11:29 am

I'd look into this.
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Postby wurpess » Thu Aug 24, 2006 3:37 pm

This sounds amusing. Hell, since the deadline is so far off, I'll probably do something for it. And I have a couple ideas, so this should be fun! :twisted:
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Postby jbone » Thu Aug 24, 2006 4:01 pm

Awesome, sounds like we've got some interest here.

And just because the deadline is far off doesn't mean you should wait until then to make your video - I'm not limiting it to just one per person, so put together as many ideas as you'd like.

(At least one *good* entry per person will get in.)
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Postby Mr Pilkington » Thu Aug 24, 2006 4:30 pm

Awesomenesstastic!

I'm sure I can crap out a few. Hell, I might even try just this once :wink:
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Postby DinaDani » Thu Aug 24, 2006 5:41 pm

Interesting idea and I'm interested, just one thing.

Which polka-song are you gonna pick? Cause afaik there's polka power, polkamon, alternative polka and the angry white boy polka. Or is that up for us to decide?
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Postby Krisqo » Thu Aug 24, 2006 5:56 pm

I say use all 8 (9 after sept 26 when Straight outta Lynwood is released).

Or pick a few from each one.

That would give us

Polka on 45
Hooked on Polkas
Polka Party
Hot Rocks Polka
Polka Your Eyes out
The Alternative Polka
Polka Power
Angry White Boy Polka
Polkarama (From new CD)

Loads of fun!!
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Postby Hinano » Thu Aug 24, 2006 6:31 pm

I think the only polka song I have is the one from "Running with Scissors" (I think thats the POlka Power one) so are yuo gona like combine EVERY POLKA ever done? that sounds fun I definitely wanna do this XD
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Postby Kitsuner » Thu Aug 24, 2006 6:39 pm

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Postby jbone » Thu Aug 24, 2006 7:01 pm

DinaDani wrote:Interesting idea and I'm interested, just one thing.

Which polka-song are you gonna pick? Cause afaik there's polka power, polkamon, alternative polka and the angry white boy polka. Or is that up for us to decide?


All of them. Any of them. Mix and match!
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Postby lynit » Thu Aug 24, 2006 10:19 pm

What kind of anime are you looking to be submitted in? Just wondering.

And this sounds very interested. Don't know if I'll participate, but i'm still thinking..
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