Sony ACIDplanet.com Launches Tenacious D 'Pick Of Destiny' Video Mash-Up Contest With $6,000 Prize Package to Support New Movie From New Line Cinema
Jack Black and Writer/Director Liam Lynch Excited About Launch of Pick of
Destiny Video Mash-Up Contest
MADISON, Wis., Nov. 7, 2006 — ACIDplanet.com(R), one of the
Internet's premier sites for user-generated music and video content and
computer-based recording and remixing tools, has launched a new video
mash-up contest featuring audio and video clips from the upcoming Tenacious
D "Pick of Destiny" film. Aspiring producers can now create their own cut
from video footage taken straight from the new Tenacious D film, "Pick of
Destiny" starring Jack Black and written and directed by director, producer
and rock star Liam "My United States of Whatever" Lynch (also behind The
Sifl N Olly Show and the Lynchland Podcast). By hosting this video mash-up
contest, ACIDplanet.com introduces more people to not only the film, "Pick
of Destiny" but to the concept of video remixing by providing incredible
content and world-class production software.
The film "Pick of Destiny" tells the story of Tenacious D, a rock band
formed by actor/comedian Jack Black. The film also stars Tenacious D's lead
guitarist, Kyle Gass and features guest appearances by executive producer
Ben Stiller and rock icon Dave Grohl. If you like to laugh and you like
music and you like to rock, the Tenacious D film, "Pick of Destiny" is a
great place to enjoy all three. The film hits theatres on November 22 and
ahead of launch, ACIDplanet is giving aspiring video editors the
opportunity to participate in a video mash-up contest for the movie.
"When you leave the film you should feel like you just left a Tenacious
D concert -- with your ears ringing from awesome songs and your stomach
hurting from laughing," says writer and director Liam Lynch. "I wanted part
of the film to feel like an event, like you've been at a concert feeling
that excitement and anticipation right before it starts."
An extreme technophile himself, Lynch thinks video mash-up contests are
a great way to get creative. "I think it's really cool and really fun that
ACIDplanet.com is doing a 'Pick of Destiny' video mash-up contest because
it gets people in on being creative and being a part of the process," says
Liam Lynch. "I think that anything that gets people thinking and
experimenting is good, says Lynch. "It doesn't matter the medium -- music
or video mash-ups -- it's all exploring technology."
Jack Black and Kyle Gass, lead Guitarist for Tenacious D, helped the
director and editor with the editing process for "Pick of Destiny" as well.
Jack Black explains, "Liam would go in with the editing team and they would
work up a rough cut of the whole thing and then we would go in and watch
the whole film. Then we would go through and just make sure that all the
takes were the best ones."
This ACIDplanet.com contest is the only video-mash-up contest to be
done for the Tenacious D film. Users must upload their mash-up of "Pick of
Destiny" to ACIDplanet.com by 12:00AM Midnight on November 27, 2006 in
order to be eligible for the contest. One grand prizewinner will receive
over $6,000 in video production gear and software.
"We're truly excited to be offering this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity
with one of the greatest rock bands of all time," states Dave Chaimson, VP
of Marketing for Sony Media Software. "This is above and beyond the typical
event we've offered in the past at ACIDplanet. The D has delivered some
truly awesome material for fans to work with and we have now entered the
video mash-up realm in a huge way with a rockin' big bang, courtesy of
Tenacious D."
ACIDplanet.com is a rapidly growing online community of individual
digital musicians and content creators. Users can produce and upload their
own music and videos for the world to experience or listen to music created
by others, and check out the most popular videos. In addition to sharing
original creations, users participate in regularly scheduled remix contests
featuring several notable musicians. Some other artists, including Beck, De
La Soul and Nine Inch Nails, have contributed music to past remix contests
at ACIDplanet.com.
For more information and complete contest rules, please visit:
http://www.acidplanet.com
About Sony Media Software
Sony Media Software manages the following media creation titles:
ACID(R) Pro, ACID Music Studio(TM), ACID XMC(TM), CD Architect(TM), DVD
Architect(TM), Jam Trax(TM), Sound Forge(R), Sound Forge Audio Studio(TM),
Super Duper Music Looper(R), Vegas(R), Vegas Movie Studio(TM)+DVD, and
Vegas Movie Studio+DVD Platinum Edition software. Sony Media Software
produces The Seminar Series(TM) product training DVDs, Sony Sound
Series(TM) music and sound effects libraries, Sony Vision Series(TM)
graphics, animations and stock footage libraries, and Noise Reduction(TM)
plug-in. The team also runs ACIDplanet.com(R), a worldwide community for
progressive musicians. For additional product information, please visit
http://www.sony.com/mediasoftware.
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