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Joel Reaves
@kenny, you have to click view complete results under "Phase 2: Predictions"
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Kenny Kalinowski
@Jensen Yancey
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Jensen Yancey
@kenny you can just click on "view complete results" and see how everyone voted
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Jeff Zampino
And based on Tongal's "What is" page people as a group are more accurate than an 'expert'. Meaning we won! I assume the check is in the mail ;)
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James DeJulio
Hi Guys,subjectivity aside, take a look at this page: http://bit.ly/agrW91 -that's the community's honest opinion of the videos. 4 of the Judges choices are represented in the top 5 "predicted" winners,with a little leeway, I think that they did a good job
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Katie Barber
@Jeff Zampino
Thank you! And there's still the most viewed contest open to all the videos, so get behind the video you thought should have won and share it instead of being ugly to others. That's a more productive reaction... -
Jeff Zampino
OK, everybody simmer down, all your babies are pretty ;) If Rogue judged, they picked the one they thought REPRESENTED the movie best. I've chaired a bunch of judge-based competitions for AAF, and judging subjective matter always heats people up.
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Katie Barber
A lot of us use this site as a way to help our careers & want the companies that sponsor the competitions to see we’re a professional group to work with. To the individuals below that reflect poorly on that, please find mature ways to express your opinion.
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Jensen Yancey
@joelrook I'm sorry, I really don't see where you have room to complain, your top 10 is a combination of the least professional videos in the contest (Don't blow me up!, really?!) and videos that blatantly ignored the concepts
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Joel Reaves
And by doing so, you're saying I shouldn't have won...so you're insulting both. haha Thanks, glad you like them; but I'm sorry your favorite video didn't win.
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Joel Rook
I'm guessing that was a different color of paint?? But seriously, you are steering this toward you again when really I'm insulting the judges decision. I guess your paint does dry well.
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Joel Reaves
James, these are for you too, you said you wanted to see my other work. Enjoy :]
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Joel Reaves
I would respect your insults more if there was actually drying paint in my video...but there obviously isn't. Tongal is just a fun little way to make money man, how's this for paint drying?: http://www.flickr.co m/photos/18168684@N0 5/?saved=1
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Joel Rook
Well of course you are going to say that. That's why my original statement was regarding the judges' decision, not your video. You called me a sore loser, because I stated my opinion about the ranking. And you already proved recording dry paint will win.
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Joel Reaves
Well, I respect your opinion. But I'll have to disagree with you, try recording paint dry and see if that wins any prizes. And I'd say my prize money suggests I know something about film, and I guess I did something right. Sorry you don't like it.
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Joel Rook
No offense, but both. Yours was boring and the top five ranking made no sense. It was worse than watching paint dry.
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Joel Reaves
I'm confused, are you calling MY video crap, compared to someone else's? Or are you just saying that there were a lot of crappy videos?
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Joel Rook
And, don't deny the bulge in your cheek by calling others sore losers.
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Joel Rook
In respects to Joel Reeves' comment--just because I did not submit a video doesn't mean that I don't know the difference between quality and crap!!
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Joel Reaves
Man this site has some sore losers on it, be professional you guys. If you don't like the way the judging went, maybe you should have submitted your own videos.
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Joel Reaves
@James, Hey I don't know if you meant email the site or message you...but I sent a message to your profile.
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Joel Reaves
@James, Yeah, I'll email you. I had people at my school watch the video, and every school computer has the same IP address.
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Joel Reaves
@James, Yeah, I'll email you. I had people at my school watch the video, and every school computer has the same IP address.
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Joel Reaves
@James, Yeah, I'll email you. I had people at my school watch the video, and every school computer has the same IP address.
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James DeJulio
if you have a case that we've reached this decision in error, you can email us and we'll look into it.
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James DeJulio
@Joel, nothing is wrong. your score was decreased by 217 views because of suspicious activity. 217 views came from only 4 IP addresses and within seconds of each other from the same OS/browser. Most viewed points count only unique views. if you have a-
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@Joel Reaves
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Joel Reaves
@James and Caleb: Hey this site is ripping us off!!!! We were almost at 900 points last night and we were ahead of Mac and the Sexbomb, and now we're at 710!? Something took away 200 points for no reason! I want our views back!
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Caleb Light-Wills
@Dan Milano, My apologies for the inconsistency: the most viewed phase began exactly at 3:02pm PST on May 7th. The video submission phase ended on the 3rd.
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Wooden Nickel Shorts
@Caleb you've now said this "Most Viewed started on May 3rd" and "Just to clarify, most viewed started on the 7th". lol im so confused
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Caleb Light-Wills
@Joel Reaves, no worries! Just to clarify, most viewed started on the 7th and will run until the 27th. Whichever video has the most unique views (as indicated by points on the leaderboard) will win. Good luck!
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Joel Reaves
Oh no, totally! I agree about fairness, it has to be fair! When I wrote "first two days" I meant after may 3rd, not the first day I uploaded it. Sorry. I was just confused on if it started may 3rd or 7th.
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Caleb Light-Wills
@Joel Reaves, The idea of starting a most viewed phase from a specific point in time (May 7th) as opposed to the minute you submit your video is to make it fair to those people who may have submitted on the last day. It levels the playing field so to speak
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Joel Reaves
Wait, that can't be right...I got like 30 views on the first two days and then the most viewed thing changed to May 7th, and my video went back down to 0 views.
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Caleb Light-Wills
@Aj Nowack, Yes, the Most Viewed started on May 3rd. Any views you had beginning on May 3rd will count toward your most viewed total.
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Amanda Jean Nowack
@Caleb were unique views being counted before yesterday? i started sharing like crazy on day 1, when the contest said the most viewed phase started may 3rd.
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Jensen Yancey
one more question, are there any criteria the judges are following, or is it just which video they like best?
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@James DeJulio
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Joel Reaves
my views went up by 3 and my most viewed views went up by 1...what's up with these video players?
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Joel Reaves
My family is watching my video but the counts aren't going up....why?
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James DeJulio
@kenny there's an arrow next to the video in your portfolio, that changes the thumb
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James DeJulio
@kenny - you can change the thumbnail from the portfolio section of your mytongal page
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Kenny Kalinowski
Is the Thumbnail chosen for my video the default, or permanent thumbnail? Oddly enough - the chosen image is a freeze-frame of the absolute worst short I used in my entire video... bad lighting and everything :(
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Caleb Light-Wills
@Shawn Gray They are not available for public viewing yet.
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Shawn Gray
Where do I go to see the entries? Or have they not been released for public viewing yet?
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James DeJulio
@Jeff it will be either someone from Universal's Marketing dept (as was the case with the Concepts) or someone closely related to the film.
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Kenny Kalinowski
Is it too early to begin sharing the link to our Entry Videos? I have the feeling that people have already started getting views...
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Katie Barber
btw if anyone is worried I had an unfair advantage by seeing the movie already- we shot and filmed our short before we saw it. I was glad because I didn't want it to be influenced by the film. And the actual MacGruber movie is pretty awesome.
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Katie Barber
@Ben Lolli
One of the most surreal moments of my life- watching Will Forte having a super awkward sex scene onscreen while he stands behind me w/his arms crossed & looking very serious as he watches the audience response. -
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@Katie Barber
You lucky dawg you! Yeah, I met Will and spoke to the director, Jorma Taccone. They were nice peeps for sure! -
Michael Fitzgerald
Sweet. Great odds for everybody. Love this site!
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James DeJulio
@Michael @Ben there were 31 videos submitted to the competition. A couple of them will get screened out because they're duplicates, so there will be just under 30 submissions in competition.
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Katie Barber
@Ben Lolli
awws :( I was very lucky and got to go to a screening of it last Monday w/q&a session afterwards w/Will Forte, Ryan Phillippe, John Soloman, and Jorma Taccone. I met Will Forte- such a nice guy! -
Jeff Zampino
I think you can do up to 3, but they may have had upload probs. We had to upload ours twice, so it shows as 2 entries on our directors profile. I can't imagine being able to do 6 of these! 1 almost killed me!
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Ben Lolli
@Michael Fitzgerald
Word man. This is a pretty sweet site and all, but stuff like this shouldn't happen. It's not cool and it looks bad on us when we promote it. I saw 31 entries, but I also saw one guy submitted 6. Not sure if that's legal or not? -
Ben Lolli
@Katie Barber
Yeah, I already owe my teacher a 6-pack. lol I told them there might be a payment, but I'm more syked about the hometown viewing. I did work in the movie as an extra and am in the trailer. I auditioned but didn't get the part :/ -
Michael Fitzgerald
I'm in the same boat. Already let the cat out of the bag, dangit! Oh well. Anybody know how many submissions were made? Last count I saw was 29.
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Katie Barber
@Ben Lolli
I told all my friends to come back Friday. And you too....some! I'm hoping to place somewhere just so I can pay my friends something for volunteering and helping. Well, besides the pizza for the day we shot! -
Ben Lolli
@Katie Barber
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@Katie Barber
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@Jeff Zampino
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Caleb Light-Wills
@Katie Barber
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Katie Barber
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James DeJulio
Christian--weird, not sure why that happened. You're all set for the competition.
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Christian Schwier
@James DeJulio
For some reason - my first entry is now duplicated a second time on my portfolio. I only uploaded once. Should I de-activate one of them? Thanks for you help. -
Christian Schwier
@James DeJulio
Yes just removed #2 - I guess the first one needed a few minutes to convert maybe? 1st video is now working. Thanks! -
Jeff Zampino
James - Working with Christian. We only have 1 video to upload. The first one seemed to have probs so we re-encoded. Both are identical...though the .mov is prob slightly better quality.
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Christian Schwier
Posted a video for macgruber - it says "waiting" under my portfolio where the icon should be. did i do something wrong? is this normal?
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Jeff Zampino
Thanks! you bought me 2 seconds. I'll find the last one somewhere...
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James DeJulio
I would just trim the bumper a little to fit the time limit
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Jeff Zampino
James - Caleb said it was 3 seconds (4/27). Is there a shorter IAMROGUE bumper I'm not seeing? We're at 93 and can't find the cuts...
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Jeff Zampino
The IAMROGUE and macgruber bumpers are 9 seconds. Does that count as part of our 90?
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Jeff Zampino
going on 72 hours straight working the video. Why do we procrastinate...
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Caleb Light-Wills
@Elyjah Mercurio
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Elyjah Mercurio
Are we only to use the winning concepts for the video portion of the contest?
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James DeJulio
BTW, your videos do not HAVE to be 90 seconds, that's just the limit. short and sweet is always best....
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Caleb Light-Wills
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Jensen Yancey
is there an amount of time that the bumpers have to be on screen?
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Syd Harvey
What's the deal? Do you have to be a chick to win around here?
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James DeJulio
Also, just in the last 30 days: 1st place Infectiguard, Cheri Julander, $500, 1st place Knicks video, Candice Jones, $2,500, 1st place MatMarket name,Erica Dorn, $500. In fact, women excel at Tongal, far beyond the percentage of the community they comprise
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James DeJulio
@Paula just because one project may be geared towards slightly sophomoric humor, it's not fair to throw around words like "discriminatory," which is entirely inaccurate. Two of our top ten winners are women, Tina Radel and Candice Jones.
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Paula Zimmerman
@Caleb Light-Wills
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@Jensen Yancey
Yes, it means that most media moguls, directors, producers, editors, DPS, gaffers are men and sexism still reigns, even with Ms Bigelow winning the Academy Award. Sexism and nepotism. Do you know what that means? -
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James DeJulio
IMPORTANT: don't use the audio files from the trailer splits. we're going to be uploading the official score for the film which you are free to use
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Jensen Yancey
This isnt discriminating against anyone... are you sure you know what the word means?
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James DeJulio
testosterone based...maybe, discriminatory to women, absolutely not.
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Paula Zimmerman
This contest is so testosterone based, and discriminates against women, or is that the point?
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James DeJulio
FYI, you can find the bumpers in the project files tab
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Caleb Light-Wills
@Raleigh - You should use the quote associated with the concept you chose, but you can use any of the other quotes found in the overview, additionally.
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Raleigh Gines
Can we use a different quote than the concept we chose used?
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James DeJulio
You should use the quote verbatim. The concepts themselves are open to interpretation.
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Raleigh Gines
Do we have to use the quote verbatim? And are suicide references frowned upon?
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James DeJulio
You are free to interpret from there. To give you an idea, take a look at the Lending Tree Project and the 1st place concept and the 1st place video.
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James DeJulio
You must "base" your video on one of the concepts, BUT you don't have to literally interpret it. Capture the essence of the concept, eg., in #1, it looks like MacGruber is diffusing a bomb, but he's really working on his NHL pool.
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Devon Parsons
Looking at the winning concepts I don't see a viral video coming from any of them. Is it possible to submit a video not based on the concepts as long as the Macgruber dialogue is used?
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James DeJulio
FYI, I voted on behalf of Universal Pictures in the concept phase.
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Caleb Light-Wills
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Steven Uecke
I don't see the winning concepts even though the phase is "complete". Am I missing something?
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Caleb Light-Wills
Varun, I have broken the Media Kit into pieces, so it should be much easier to download now.
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Caleb Light-Wills
Hey Varun. Sorry about the size of the media kit, it probably makes more sense to break it into pieces. I'll do that and let you know when it it available for download.
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Varun Mehta
gosh tht media kit is so big 1.90 gb, i am unable to download, can anyone help with a better option?
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Hanley Hoang
I was wondering if there will be audio clips of the dialogue lines in the Overview available.
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James DeJulio
Ben, just go to your MyTongal page, then "Portfolio", you'll see a minus sign (-) next to your submission. That removes it, then you can resubmit your edited submission. let me know if that helps
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James DeJulio
FYI, I am not the judge of this, just a placeholder. Judges will be announced next week
Universal Pictures
Universal Pictures
Sponsor Main Page
A: You can submit up to 3 submissions
Q: When is the Concept submission deadline
A: March 24, 2010 10:00AM
Q: Will I earn any money if someone shoots a video based on my idea?
A: You will receive a 5% residual of every winning video your work is used to generate.
Q: What is the repost threshold for this phase?
A: If there are less than 2 submissions, the phase is extended for 7 days.
A: You can submit up to 3 submissions
Q: When is the Video submission deadline
A: May 03, 2010 3:00PM
Q: What is the repost threshold for this phase?
A: If there are less than 2 submissions, the phase is extended for 7 days.
Q: Are Wildcard submissions permitted?
A: No
Q: When can I share/post videos elsewhere?
A: After the project winners have been announced.
