Project Bungle - a Kiskasca Productions AMV contest

[RutKiskasca]

Project Bungle - a Kiskasca Productions AMV contest

I would like to ask you all to participate in a contest that is borne purely of my laziness and desire for self gratification. I have been a musician all my life...in fact, I came out of the womb whistling, but then the doctor sucked the mucus plugs out of my nose, and I quieted down. I have a very wide variety of favorites, and some of these have been calling out to me to be made into music videos. There is just not enough time in the day or talent in my body to accomplish all of these tasks, so I have decided to pawn the task off on the AMV community at large.

The concept is simple. I have ripped a CD, and uploaded the entire contents of it to my website in both mp3 and wav formats. A track listing can be found below. I have no favorite songs on the album, I like the whole thing, so any one song is as good as another to me. Your task, if you decide to enter the contest, is to pick a song off the album and make the best AMV you can.

So, the first step is to pick a song. I have uploaded .wav and .mp3 formats, so you can download the smaller .mp3's to browse for a selection, and download the .wav for the project file. This should save you some time and my server some bandwidth, but hey, if you have a T3 connection that you only use to send plain text email and that fat pipe is just going to waste, knock yourself out.

Once you have picked the song, work your magic. The final entries should be encoded in two formats, MPEG2 and any other codec you wish. So, you will submit two files...two versions of each video you submit. You submit as many entries as you wish. Entries must be mailed on digital media (CD/DVD) to the address at the bottom of this post. No FTP or direct online transfer is likely to be available, since...hey, I'm going to be in Iraq...they won't be paying me to sit around and download videos. Yes, I said Iraq. The purpose of this contest is to cheer me up after missing Anime Weekend Atlanta, and while I sit in the desert and miss all the good cons and all the comeraderie of my friends in the AMV community.

Deadline for submission is Thanksgiving 2005. Videos may be entered at any time up until that deadline. Videos will be collected at the address below by my wife, and she will forward them to me via military post. You should send two copies of the digital media, so she can send one and keep the other...that way if the first one gets lost in the mail, she can send the second one. If the second one gets lost in the mail, I think that authorizes me to kill one postal worker of my choice....I'll have to verify that, but I am sure I heard it somewhere.

Ok, the prizes. I will award prizes for first and second place, just like my last competition. I have not yet figured out what second place will get...I will post that later. First place, however, should be really cool. I will be awarding a 250Gb Western Digital Media Center External Drive. The best description of this drive I can find is <a href="http://store.westerndigital.com/product ... 5">here</a> . I have ordered the drive already, and it is en route here. As soon as I get it, I will be pulling some all nighter sessions to "improve" it for the winner. How, you ask? Well, it's a drive that is designed for archiving, so I am going to attempt to download every single video listed in the top 10% by category for every category catalogued on a-m-v.org. That means that I will create a directory for drama, action, sentimental, comedy, etc, and download every video listed in the top 10% for each category, and store them all on the drive. I will also do my best to get copies of every MEP I can get my hands on (ROS, RVG, AMVHell, Animix, DDR, etc) and put those on it, too...subject to their availability. Whether or not you keep them for posterity or delete them to make room for massive storage, makes no difference to me. I just thought that having a gigantic HDD full of the best AMVs ever made would be a cool prize. Now, my only caveat is that I have a matter of weeks before I leave, and depending on when the drive arrives, that will dictate when I can start packing it full of videos. Once Thanksgiving rolls around, I will judge the videos, op them, and post the results on this forum. I will then mail out the prizes to the winners. Second prize is likely to be some form of gift certificate for an amount less than the cost of that HDD (valued at $174.00 refurbished) for the venue of the winner's choice. That means that you could conceivably win something less than $174.00 worth of leatherboy accessories from Helmut Reichmann's house of bondage, or a donation in your name to the org, whatever is likely to bring you the most pleasure. I'll figure that prize out based on what kind of allowance my wife gives me for the war. It's likely to be the equivalent of a month's worth of my hooke...I mean envelope and stamp fund.

Now, finally, the music. The band in question is Mr. Bungle. It's somewhat difficult to describe them. I have heard them described as "West Coast Circus Punk." They followed in the tradition of great bands like The Residents and Gwar...all their members wore disguises and performed under pseudonyms. I don't think that you will have any problem picking out Mike Patton of Faith no More as the lead vocalist. Mr. Bungle still turns out a CD every now and then, but this original self titled release was a bit of a cult legend...none of their subsequent albums were nearly this good, in my humble opinion.

Mr. Bungle uses some VERY strange sounds in their music. There are lots of little studio tricks and instrument abuse, and copious amounts of dead air and blaring noise. In this regard, I want to specify that, whatever song you select, you must not edit down the full track. Use the entire original audio file. You can add bumper space at the beginning and end if you wish, but thou shalt not cut anything out, including the dead air at the beginning, end, or middle of any of the tracks. I will hint to you that you don't necessarily want to leave the dead air as a black screen...you might want to have something going on there, but in the end, it's YOUR video. You will notice that there are only two songs that are less than six minutes long, so I fully expect some of you to lose your minds doing this contest. I just had an evil grin moment when I imagined the poor bastard that picks "My Ass Is On Fire"...the misery starts somwhere around 5:00...really gets "REDUNDANT" (you'll get that when you hear it) around 5:28, and just goes on and on all the way to 6:50, where it just gets weird until 7:47. There are several "studly glutton for punishment" tracks like that to choose from that will really make me imagine your misery quite effectively. You are SOOOOOOO gonna work for these prizes. I might have to upgrade them. We'll see what the cashflow allows.

I estimate that, based on the scientific data I collected during the imprompty 7.53 second contest I just hosted, most of you are capable of pulling brilliance and perversion out of your asses the way the Cadbury bunny produces chocolate coated sugar paste out of his. Given the postal time frame for the most distant possible entry, (unless the international space station submits an entry) you should have your entries in the mail by the 14th of November, which gives you a little over two months to play with this idea.

One caveat...unless I get at least ten people to commit to the contest, I reserve the right to cancel it. If I have fewer, I may consider keeping the contest up, but I want participation on this. If I get ten people to commit, but I recieve less than 10 entries in the mail, I reserve the right to modify the prizes. If I am going to go to all the trouble of putting together these kinds of prizes, and everyone drops out but one or two people, then where's the benefit for me? As I said in the beginning...my motivation for this is selfish lazyness...or lazy selfishness...one of those. I want enough footage to keep me entertained...that's my payoff. No payoff, no goodies...well...lesser goodies. So, you that are really interested, if you see weak interest at first, PM your buddies, and peer pressure them.

So, there you have it. Here are the links to the songs.

Here are the .mp3 files

<a href="http://www.kiskasca.net/bungle/Carousel.mp3">Carousel 5:13</a>
<a href="http://www.kiskasca.net/bungle/DeadGoon.mp3">Dead Goon 10:02</a>
<a href="http://www.kiskasca.net/bungle/Egg.mp3">Egg 10:39</a>
<a href="http://www.kiskasca.net/bungle/LoveIsAFist.mp3">Love Is A Fist 6:00</a>
<a href="http://www.kiskasca.net/bungle/MyAssIsOnFire.mp3">My Ass Is On Fire 7:47</a>
<a href="http://www.kiskasca.net/bungle/QuoteUnquote.mp3">Quote Unquote 6:56</a>
<a href="http://www.kiskasca.net/bungle/SlowlyGr ... p3">Slowly Growing Deaf 6:59</a>
<a href="http://www.kiskasca.net/bungle/SqueezeM ... 3">Squeeze Me Macaroni 5:38</a>
<a href="http://www.kiskasca.net/bungle/StubbADub.mp3">Stubb (A Dub) 7:19</a>
<a href="http://www.kiskasca.net/bungle/TheGirlsOfPorn.mp3">The Girls Of Porn 6:42</a>

Here are the .wav files

<a href="http://www.kiskasca.net/bungle/Carousel ... arousel</a>
<a href="http://www.kiskasca.net/bungle/DeadGoon.wav">Dead Goon</a>
<a href="http://www.kiskasca.net/bungle/Egg.wav">Egg</a>
<a href="http://www.kiskasca.net/bungle/LoveIsAFist.wav">Love Is A Fist</a>
<a href="http://www.kiskasca.net/bungle/MyAssIsOnFire.wav">My Ass Is On Fire</a>
<a href="http://www.kiskasca.net/bungle/QuoteUnquote.wav">Quote Unquote</a>
<a href="http://www.kiskasca.net/bungle/SlowlyGr ... av">Slowly Growing Deaf</a>
<a href="http://www.kiskasca.net/bungle/SqueezeM ... v">Squeeze Me Macaroni</a>
<a href="http://www.kiskasca.net/bungle/StubbADub.wav">Stubb A Dub</a>
<a href="http://www.kiskasca.net/bungle/TheGirlsOfPorn.wav">The Girls Of Porn</a>

Here's the mailing address for your entries. The packages must be addressed exactly like this.

SGT Matthew Foldenauer
B co, 302nd MI BN
CMR 467 Box 4411
APO AE 09096

Normal mail will travel to New York, where it will enter the military postal system. From there, it will take about eight days to travel from New York to the address in Germany, after that, it will take about two weeks to reach me in Iraq. The deadline will be considered met when the package arrives in Germany. My wife will record each date of arrival.

Miscellaneous notes: I hate to say this, but no hentai. Brief nudity is ok, and for some of these songs, it's going to be damn near a requirement, but the videos are going to be shipped to me in Iraq, and there is a prohibition on pornography there. That doesn't mean it doesn't exist...it just means that I have to tell you not to send me pornography. That makes it hard for anyone who picks the last track on the list, but I know you are up to the challenge. If you use a conversation scene from Bible Black, who's to know? If you use a dickgirl scene from Bible Black...yeah, that might be a problem. If you absolutely MUST use the dickgirl footage, a strategically placed black bar with "ZOMG DICKGIRL!!!1one" photoshopped over it would be acceptable. Censor the footage, clip around it, or find non-pornographic footage. You know what you do. All entries become the property of Kiskasca Productions. It's still your video, and you can do with it what you want, but by entering my contest, you give me expressed permission to host your video on my site, share it, publicly exhibit it, distribute it on recordable media, and alter, fold, spindle, and mutilate it any way I see fit. Don't worry, I'm not going to shop your face onto all the dick girls and send it to your school for the prom video. Nope...I definately, probably, won't do that.

[Kusoyaro]

Oooooh, I would so love to be part of anything related to AMVs and Mr. Bungle. But I prefer the album California, and all the songs I'd want to use are on that album...that, and I'm currently burnt out on editing, so I don't think I could churn one out by November :/

[IchigoFever]

Hrrmmm...Intrested! >.> Count me in!

[Roccket]

Interesting contest. You're putting a lot of efforts into it and the prizes, so I think it's worth attention. I might join, still gotta listen to all the tracks.

[Rurounikeitaro]

This music is weird! It's kinda funny though. This contest sounds interesting to me.

[RutKiskasca]

Ok, I have re-evaluated the deadlines, and decided that they are way too soon...
therefore, the deadline for submission will be April 1 2006. The judging will be conducted on June 2, 2006 (my birthday) and prizes will be mailed out no later than June 15th. 2006.

Come on folks, sign up!

[godix]

Ok, I have re-evaluated the deadlines, and decided that they are way too soon...
therefore, the deadline for submission will be April 1 2006. The judging will be conducted on June 2, 2006 (my birthday) and prizes will be mailed out no later than June 15th. 2006.

Come on folks, sign up!

Ok, with the earlier deadline I was going to try and get something done but I didn't want to commit myself. With this later deadline I should be able to do something so consider me signed up.

[RutKiskasca]

Awesome. Thanks Godix! Welcome aboard.

[Orwell]

I really like the music, and if I can get a solid concept, I'll probably do something, hopefully the thought of a deadline will provide some motivation.