rachel lynn

TEASER _ ON A DARK AND STORMY NIGHT

victorpeceno — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 23:42:57 +0000

I am in contact with Rachel Lynn

that was my prize for the contest

I mean I am now close friend to her and i have hear some songs from Rachel

what I did was, joinning Ezequiel directing with a song from Rachel "Torture"

and put all together for a tesaer

the result is an amazing work that try to joing two friends

I want to let clear that before doing everything I ask to both friend

to allowed me to use their work and I got it

Hope you like it...

Rum Bless!!!!

On A Dark And Stormy Night - Music Video by Rachel Lynn

FableForge — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 12:00:16 +0000

She is a pleasure to work with, and for, as humble as she is talented and generous, Rachel Lynn.

Directed by Calavera Crew: Ezequiel, "Punk Rock" Ryan Peña, Elias Matar, Matt Eskandari,

Edited by yours truly.

Produced by Anthony Brewster

Winner of the KarmaCritic Music Video Contest.

The KarmaCritic Films logo at the end was created by Captain David Xarach, and its a joy to watch every time!

I updated the little things I wanted to fix about it, so its about as nice as I can get it, at this point. A real pleasure and honor, pirates!

P.S. All Contestants: Feel free to submit your videos under your own name here in KC at this time, if you want to! I personally do want this in my library in my profile here at the site :)

RACHEL LYNN MUSIC VIDEO CONTEST - RULES AND KICKOFF

FableForge — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 02:32:01 +0000

Alright Pirates, this is it!!!

I've uploaded 1 Gigabyte worth of video data to the onadarkandstormynightmovie.com server. It is approximately 1 hour of footage of Rachel Lynn singing in a variety of settings, and little over 10 minutes of select footage from the actual movie. No, you don't get any spoilers, or anything that's not in the synopsis/trailers anyway :)

Tomorrow at around 7 PM Eastern Time, all contestants will be sent an email with instructions to download and unrar the footage. You will need this tool, at the very least, to uncompress the video files: WinRar, so I'd suggest installing it ahead of time. The Rachel Lynn footage is a 750 plus megs avi file, the movie footage is a 144 megs wmv file, get your converters ready, I personally use VideoLan, but suit yourself. Keep in mind that the audio of the footage is intentionally bad, this is because you're not supposed to use it! The only audio you're supposed to use is here: http://www.karmacritic.com/files/Dar...

You may use other footage, as long as you legally own it! More on that in the rules below.

Now, the Rules:

You are to create a music video for Rachel Lynn's song ON A DARK AND STORMY NIGHT using only materials:
- For which you are the copyright holder (proper documentation will be required from the winner), or
- Which are Public Domain (again, burden of proof is on you), or
- Which were provided to you in the package mentioned above. (All of the above means: don't just steal video! If you don't own it, or we didn't give it to you, you can't use it! Of course, if another filmmaker gives you footage, like the moon shot Lady Parker placed on Vimeo for this contest specifically, that is certainly acceptable, but we'll need documentation, in this case, her post in KC is enough).
You must make Rachel Lynn look good. This is her song, and her video. Don't let her go out of synch, don't use shots that aren't flattering. This is the easiest of all rules to enforce, because if you fail at this, she simply won't choose your work as the winner, and you lose :)
Keep in mind this is a commercial product. Do not show any material that would make this inadmissible in mainstream national television. No blood, gore, murder scenes, swear words, etc. Use your common sense. Again, if you fail at this, you simply lose cause Rachel wouldn't choose a video that is inappropriate for the airwaves.
You have until next Wednesday to finish. First thing in the morning on Thursday, the contest closes to submissions! All of this hints at the method by which the winner will be chosen:
Rachel Lynn herself! She will see all videos, then simply choose the
winner, which will be announced in our radio show (after Peter
Jackson!) :)
Now, to make sure Rachel does not know which person made which video, all contestants will submit their work via ANONYMOUS VIMEO ACCOUNTS. Instructions to create these accounts will be provided to contestants tomorrow. You will be able to upload your video, and title it as you wish, but if anyone is caught anywhere providing details as to who the author of which video is, disqualification applies. Let's keep this a fair contest, gentlemen! Be sportsmanlike!
Work in as high definition as you possibly can, remember this work may be seen outside of the web world, including potential for Cable Television, DVDs, etc.
DO NOT share the source material provided to you with ANYONE! In fact, to prevent this from leaking, the
material will be deleted from the server the day after tomorrow, you
will only have around 24 hours to download it.

After the contest is over and a winner has been chosen, everyone is welcome to post their videos here in KC, under their own names.

The winner will sign a legal contract so that his work can be used by Rachel; please don't expect compensation other than seeing your work promoted by a well-connected and very talented artist, in as many platforms as she feels motivated to! I wouldn't be surprised if this leads to networking which leads to other (paying) jobs, but that's up to you and where you take things from here :)

Have fun, show your creativity, and may the best Pirate Win!

RACHEL LYNN'S "ON A DARK AND STORMY NIGHT"~~~ezequiel's little cut!!!!!!!!! ALRIGHT RACERS, START YOUR ENGINES!

Ezequiel — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 17:36:30 +0000

This is my sample cut. I did it so that you, the contestants can see ahead of time what you have to work with! The contest will start soon. Once again, Marco will post the rules and regulations once the party is kicked off! This is gonna be a blast! So it's time to rock it like a rocket and take off!

Are you ready!

A Dark And Stormy Song

FableForge — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 22:42:01 +0000

Well, this is one of those ideas where everybody wins.

Here's the setup:

EZ has his movie done as we all know, and Rachel Lynn made a GREAT song for it. I don't say this just for saying it, the song KICKS ass. Look, before we go any further, have a little listen:

See what I mean? Good, now that you're on board, here's the deal:

A KICK-ASS music video MUST be made. It must be as good as the song itself is. In fact, if the music video is good enough, EZ has the connections (and by God, the motivation!) to try to push the song into places like VH1, MTV and the like. This would be incredibly good for everybody. EZ's movie would get a huge publicity boost, Rachel herself would get a music video (in TV, no less!) and you could put that sort of thing in your resume. Worthy careers have gotten a start with music videos, ... just off the top of my head, Tarsem Singh, Spike Jonze (who ironically, was following the steps of Spike Jones), etc. Next thing you know, another music band contacts you cuz they want your skills on their video too?

But music videos are expensive, you say? You don't have cameras you say, you don't have lighting equipment, actors, heck, Rachel Lynn wouldn't even return your phonecalls? Well dear friends, that's where we come in. EZ is prepping up the set, the lights, the cameras, the stormy and Rachel, for a shoot very soon. His goal is to obtain COOL QUALITY FOOTAGE of the muse singing the theme song for his movie. He's gonna post that footage for us to consume, edit, and process as we see fit. You don't need to buy anything, you don't need a budget! All you need is your trusty computer, some editing software and your skills and time.

Rachel herself will judge which video is the winner. And like I said, it goes from there, as its in both the best interest of a well connected filmmaker and a well connected musician, to promote the hell out of YOUR video. Not a bad deal where I'm standing. I'm gonna enter, sure as hell I am.

If I've succesfully sold my case, you're wondering what to do next: post your commitment here. It took me just one weekend to edit my Insane Clown Posse video SEDATIVES, and it's gotten about 20 thousand views in youtube since (more than any other creative work of mine, save the editorials, for comparison).

Those who post here that they're in like Flint, will receive an email from EZ via yousendit.com . That email will have links for you to download the footage he's gonna shoot of Rachel, plus the footage from the movie he's allowing for the music video. High Quality material. And, of course, you can download the song here: http://www.karmacritic.com/files/Dark.mp3 . One week after The Emails are sent, Rachel will come to Karma to see all contestants, and choose the winner, all by herself, no points, no judges, just Rachel.

The prize? Well, best case scenario, you'll get your work on some music video channel, and things go from there. Worst case scenario, it'll be on the movie's DVD, with whatever distribution deal the movie gets. Either way, its worth a weekend's worth of effort in my view. We give you the song, the footage, the distribution opportunity, all you have to do is put'em together.

Feel the love, baby!

So, who's in?