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iluvmybb contest - Vote For Your Favorite Video Entry! Posted in Contests on 02 Nov 2009 11:40 by Kevin Michaluk | 
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Ok CrackBerry Nation. The time has come to vote your for your favorite entry in the I Love My BlackBerry Video contest! You can click the image above to to see the top ten finalist videos again and cast your vote. Voting will remain open until end of day on Thursday, and we'll announce the Grand Prize Winner and Runner Up on Friday. Just a reminder, the winner will receive a new Macbook, their choice of BlackBerry Storm2 or Bold 9700, and a Schlage LiNK system, while the first runner up will receive their choice of Storm2 or Bold 9700 as well. Awesome prizes! We have some other great prizes lined up for all finalists and non-finalized entries as well, so everyone who submitted a video will be leaving this contest with a little more BlackBerry goodness. Bookmark/Search this post with:
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Hi everyone!
My name is Matt Galo and I am the maker of “The Scent of a Blackberryâ€! I would love for you to vote for my video. A lot of hard work went into making this short film and I think it really shows why the main character loves his Blackberry!
“The Scent of a Blackberry†is one of the most original entries out there! There is a ransom, a high speed pursuit, a tension-filled negotiation, and of course the reuniting of a man and his Blackberry! You’ll laugh, you’ll cry, you’ll giggle with glee!
Some people think I am a “film professionalâ€â€¦I am far from it! I am a media production student in college who has a camera and a drive to entertain people! I do not get paid for what I do and I have never won a film competition before! To win the IluvmyBB contest here on Crackberry would be an ultimate thrill! I had a one-man crew while shooting this film, making everything THAT much harder! I starred, wrote, directed, and edited this film with the help of my brother!
I think my character loves his Blackberry more than any other character in the entries simply because he was willing to KILL for little ol’ “Berryâ€. It’s all said in two lines when the main character’s roommate says, “You swore you’d never kill againâ€, he responds with, “This is different…I love my Blackberryâ€. He doesn’t even say he won’t kill again…instead, he justifies killing by saying he LOVES his Blackberry!
The focus of my film was clear from the get-go. Someone stole his beloved Blackberry and now he will do anything to get it back. Imagine the trailer for this flick! As posted by Kevin in the original blog post for my film, here was my thought process: If your BlackBerry was held for ransom, how far would you go to get it back? Would you call the police? Try to get the money? Or would you take things into your own hands and dispense your own kind of BlackBerry justice? That is the question my character is faced with and I think you'll agree with his choice...no one messes with his BlackBerry.
Now, I know that this contest basically comes down to a popularity contest because the community votes, not judges. I don’t have a blog or a website or anything like that. I am relying on you, the Crackberry community, to make my video number 1.
Please, when you vote, consider my video, “The Scent of a Blackberryâ€, as your choice for the best IluvmyBB submission. Thank you!
you got my vote
Hi Matt
Absolutely loved " The scent of a Blackberry", great job.
Thats how much I love my Blackberry lol. I've watched it
over and over again. You got my vote it's brilliant.
best of luck.
site keeps giving me an error with a redirect loop message.....I will vote though!
I see that as well. Glad its not only me :)
Fixed. My bad. Created it as a static page vs. a blog post, and forgot to make it live for viewing to everybody (just I could see it with editor settings). All good now. Vote away!
for finding that issue???? :)
Me too.
BTW, Stang68, if I vote for you, it will be because I like your video better. I will not vote for you, or anyone else because you are begging (appears that way to me, IMHO) for votes.
I do like your video, as well as the other 9 finalists.
I hope it doesnt appear I am begging. I am just letting everyone know I would appreciate it if they would consider my video when voting!
Amen, jlb21!
The finalists are all listed and the videos are all viewable. There's no need to spam or beg. There was plenty of that in the announcement of the other finalists.
We're all going to vote for who we want to without expecting all of the finalists to tell us why to vote for them. This isn't a political election.
are you going to say anything to the other finalists who commented on this blog post? No? Ok, not surprised...been watching you.
Redirect loop too.
Fixed. My bad. Created it as a static page vs. a blog post, and forgot
to make it live for viewing to everybody (just I could see it with
editor settings). All good now. Vote away!
Voila, page available now......off to watch them all again and cast my vote.
While everyone waits for the CrackBerry voting server to respond, I'd just like to congratulate all of the finalists.
It certainly is a tough call. There's a good mix of production quality, story lines, an crackberry essence.
Anyways, if you want to see a short, casual commentary of CrackBerry Therapy with "Jessica" and the director (me), check out:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tZUgXMisqns
This was a cool commentary. I wish more of the finalists did something like this, because it would help those of us that have no investment in the contest (i.e., our video, our friends, etc.) make an informed decision. I like how your commentary said that the bed got broken and you used the sounds from it for one of your scenes with the broken screws. When you watch a lot of film commentary, you learn that many of the best scenes or best dialog wasn't planned, the director just took advantage of a situation that arose. Very creative thinking on your part and I enjoyed your final product.
@trjnberry you pretty much capture the entire reason why I made the commentary. I wanted to add tiny bit of depth to the final product.
Much appreciated.
This will be a tough vote. It's hard to choose between the effort put into the video VS the entertainment value in the video.
Thanks again to Crackberry and everyone who made it possible for me to sing "Greased Touch-Screen" and fully humiliate myself on camera! I promise everyone I will work on at least my singing...lol! ;) While it's certainly not the best production quality here, I sure had a lot of fun with it and I hope many of you are still singing the song! Good luck to all the finalists!
I'd first like to thank Alexandra, Raymond and friends, Matt, Jeff and cute baby, Chuck, Justin and Susanne, Michael and Elizabeth, Mike and "evil girlfriend", and Greg and Aldous for their brilliant and creative work that helps to promote the growth of our CrackBerry community. Best of luck to you all!
I've had the wonderful privilege of promoting my film, APPLECALYPSE, and explaining why I love it (to death, literally) in full detail over the past few days. I think that since this grand finale will be the most trafficked post, it's fitting to share the publicity with my crew who deserve much recognition for their hard work.
Samantha performed very convincingly as an iPhone virus-infected zombie ("iZombie") despite having no experience and generally being a scaredy-cat of horror movies (I kid you not). She actually almost lost her voice at the end from growling but we gave her lots of juice and cookies.
Katelyn worked her artistic magic on all three characters, bringing to life (unlife?) the emotional depth and physical deterioration expressed by two innocent kids fleeing from a relentless, ruthless monster. But not only was she the makeup director, she also served as the highly-disciplined solo camera crew who provided fantastic suggestions.
Dean is the single biggest reason why our film successfully builds suspense and horror. While at first we contemplated covering the 28 Days Later theme, Dean explained that a film with a completely original plot deserves nothing less than a completely original soundtrack - and improvised a motif right on the spot. After many hours in front of a keyboard and on Garage Band (mostly due to our fooling around with all the different sounds), he composed music that evoked emotions ranging from excitement to anxiety to sadness -- for me, anyway (I almost teared up at the end).
APPLECALYPSE was an incredible amount of fun to film, edit, and promote. It was a project that tugged at our competitive strings while teaching us the importance of teamwork, and for that reason I am very grateful for the warm support from our friends and the CrackBerry community we've received thus far.
I'm very honoured and thankful to you, the CrackBerry community member, for having deemed us worthy enough to be a Top10 finalist in what could possibly be the best CrackBerry contest ever. I would definitely appreciate your support once more in this final vote.
Thanks again! Time to barricade my doors and scrounge for canned foods before the iZombies come out again.
-Kevin (aka ACD)
Good job on the video, and kudos for thanking the other finalists, but I think your post here could have used a little less fluff.
I do think you winning the 10th spot is a testimony to the fact that the readers of crackberry.com really did enjoy your video. We'll see if your success carries over to the final vote. I'm pretty sure it will.
MKD
Ah, that's a pretty cool trick! I was checking out AngryChineseDriver.Com the night of the Wildcard Pick and I found it interesting that ACD had his video on the front page with a link to the voting screen and an advisory that said you did need to be a Crackberry user to vote him into the finals! While it's likely unknown how many non-CB users voted him into finals, for a blog that had over 100,000 hits in the two years it's been online, you got to wonder how much that link helped him get in!
Not that it's really for you to know, but I actually haven't been getting many hits for those posts :(. It's probably not working the way I'd expect.
However, thanks for reminding me to update the site about the final vote, and for promoting more viewership to ACD! ;)
I'm very proud of my work and I have no qualms about using the available tools on my belt. CB itself has over 1.7 million members...the chance of an ACD reader already being a frequenter of CB is high if they're internet-savvy. Heck, maybe I'll host my own contest to promote subscribers!
What I don't get, ACD, is why you felt it necesasry to use these "available tools on your belt" to promote your video. If yours is the right winner, then why didn't your content get you picked by the Crackberry Panel? Why did 9 videos get chosen before yours? That link probably helped you more than you want to admit! It's Ok, you have to be a CB user now to vote. So, if you do advise your blog readers to join Crackberry so they can vote for you, at least Crackberry will get some benefit from it via new membership. If you win because you deserve it, then I take my hat off to you. But if you win because you're playing games to get votes, that's not fair to the other finalists.
i wouldn't use the words "tricks" or "playing games". i think that in a contest that involves voting promotion is a normal, even expected, part of the process. i've def seen that kind of rallying in the past, esp in the case of contests over the internet. i think it's a good thing that acd is trying to get the people he knows to vote in the ways available to him because not only does it show off a video i bet he is proud of just because it took a lot of effort but also because it in return promotes the other videos as well (and consequently the entire contest and crackberry.com). also, even with his efforts in promotion, none of that guarantees that he actually gets anyone's vote. so really i don't see the harm in his methods of promotion. i actually think it'd be worse if he put all that effort into a video and then just decided not to let anyone know about it or the contest. i can't speak on behalf of anyone else but i know that if i entered this contest i'd want to share my efforts and let everyone know that i'm participating in it. people get their friends and family to support them. i think that's a completely natural and okay thing to do. furthermore, if kevin wanted exclusive voting rights to CB members, he'd have posted the vote in the forums like in contests past.
as for the panel choosing 9 other finalists before acd, i really don't see what you're trying to point out by mentioning that. those contestants weren't chosen in any particular order and by a small panel. the winner will be determined by an open vote. two completely different groups of opinions and criteria. the video that "deserves" to win will win just because it is based on votes- there's no way you can argue merit when the merit is as basic and simple as that.
It didn't look right when I saw the link on his blog's home page, especially the part where he advises readers that they don't need to be CB users to vote, but if everyone is OK with it, then I guess it's no foul. Cool. On to the vote...!
"That link probably helped you more than you want to admit!"
Oh trjnberry, how I wish you were right :(.
I took a close look at my stats and it appears that I failed so bad that I can't help but laugh and crack open a beer in shame. On the bright side, I get to drink a beer.
See for yourself: http://angrychinesedriver.com/stats/
Oh, I saw that coming a mile away! haha!
It didn't look right to me, but hey, I wouldn't give you so much static if I didn't think you were the winner! Not necessarily the most "deserving", but if you apply "@upondstreet's" logic, you'll likely win this thing!
As much as I'd love to imagine typing this on my MacBook while chatting with my friends via BBM on my BlackBerry Bold 9700, in the safety of my Shlage LiNK wireless home alarm system...the reality is that I have a 10% chance of winning like the other nine finalists.
We're all working hard to gather votes any way legitimately possible, and I honestly think that it's up in the air. No one's going to slack off for such a great grand prize! ;)
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Very good videos, but sometimes less is more. : ) Good luck!!!
When I re-watched these videos I asked myself "Can this video be essentially about ANY phone or does it reek of blackberry love?" and i found that to be pretty helpful when trying to pick the best out of all of these great videos. To my surprise, a lot of these videos had little or nothing to do with actual blackberries.
For that reason, my top 2 picks for voting were greased touched screen and the black and white 40's diner.
greased touch screen reeked in creativity
Congrats again to everyone and good luck to all whatever happens I was just happy to be included with the rest of you it is an honor.
As any reader of this contest knows, I have been a very vocal feedback critic throughout the finalist posts. Along the way, I got into a battle with one of the finalists about what defines the contest theme. Readers that followed the battle, learned that I did not submit a video, nor did I know anybody who did. I was representing the ordinary Crackberry user who wants to judge the winner on how well they met the contest theme. If you look at the original contest page, it clearly specifies loving your Blackberry and proving you are the ultimate Blackberry ADDICT. After all, this is a Crackbery contest, not a just a Blackberry or YouTube contest.
As we look at the ten finalists, we are left with a decision about whether we want to see a Zombie, Car Chase, Karaoke singer, Hot Chick in shorts sitting on bed (yeeoooowww!), Dream Sequence, or fight with a lover as our choice as best video. Do we want to consider regret for changing phones or hiding our usage or ignoring our friends as the best interpretation of the contest theme? We are challenged with the prospect of deciding whether we think death, addiction, regret, avoidance, or fear of loss is best descriptive of what a Blackberry lover is all about, especially a Crackberrian.
For me, I will base my vote on who I think did the best job in meeting the theme. I would want the winner to be a video that I could watch at anytime of the year and I say to myself... Yeah, that is a Crackberrian if there ever was one!
Because we all know Crackberrians LOVE their Blackberries...!!
My name is Alexandra, I was finalist #1. I just want to say congrats to everyone who ENTERED the contest. It really does take a lot of guts to face thousands of people on YouTube and CrackBerry. good job to EVERYONE who submitted videos. As for my fellow finalists, good job to you as well. We were fortunate enough to be selected and we should all feel proud.
Secondly, I just want to clear up some loose ends people might have felt in my video. And I'm not saying this for votes at all, I just feel like people misunderstood my entry. In Canada, Bell is a CDMA carrier and my contract had just finished with them in August. I decided I did not want to renew my contract with them and wanted to subscribe to a GSM provider instead. Since I had the CDMA Curve, I could not bring my phone over to my new carrier. People said I should've sold my PS3 instead and I just wanted to say that I didn't absolutely NEED to sell it. I sold it because rather than it sit in my room collecting dust I'd rather someone else get use out of it and love it as much as I did! And I also wanted to point out that I'm a student and I'm fortunate enough for my parents to pay for my cellphone, so I was not going to ask my parents who are being kind enough to foot the bill to pay minimum $45/month for a data plan.
Thirdly I just wanted to say to my fellow finalists that I enjoyed your videos.
Stang68 I am also a media student and while your video looks of professional quality your story is just as rich.
ACD I admire your creativity to employ zombies into your movie. For a first time film it looks very good.
Raymond your film was pretty funny and I enjoyed your storyline.
Jeff your video is absolutely adorable! Congrats on your video but more importantly congratulations on becoming a daddy!
Charles you have GUTS! I could never get in front of a camera and sing. I have so much respect for you just for getting the nerve to make your video the way you did.
Justin I thought your video was really funny! I was impressed with it in the amount of time you said you made it in.
Michael & Elizabeth that was just great cinematography! Honestly it was like a breath of fresh air I thoroughly enjoyed it.
Mike your video showed a true addiction! I honestly couldn't believe how many berries you had! I was scared they were harmed in the making of your film! Great film.
Greg your movie is really funny. Typical BB user, hit the nail right on the head! Good job, I really laughed!
Again congrats to the finalists and to everyone who submitted a film. And the BIGGEST thank you of all to Kevin and the CrackBerry team for holding such an awesome contest! You guys ROCK!
Same to you, Alexandra! I really enjoyed your flick, especially the part where the teacher says "pull out your Blackberries" and you're like, "What?!?" Lol that was great. You're expression was perfect.
Alexandra,
What a tasteful way to clarify some misconceptions about your video, rather than writing a novel on why people should vote for you and why you are superior to the others.
And even more tasteful are the compliments you paid to the other finalists. What a classy young lady. You have set a good example, and I think the other finalists would be good to follow your lead.
MKD
Thank you Stang68! And thank you iheartcrackberry, I just think that those who weren't picked should be recognized as well, I had a great time making my video and I hope everyone else did too!
Why the hell should I vote for some douche to win something when my own video didn't even get picked? Think about it.
Now, that sounds like a true Crackberrian...! haha!
this made me laugh today :)
great prizes stupid contest
I am going to vote for the one I found most funny and creative, I urge all to do the same. Videos like "Scent of BB" or "Applecalypse" were NOT creative (no offense). Just becausr they look professional, does not mean it's original. Car chase? Seen it. Zombies? Seen it. If I wanted to watch a movie, I'd go to the theater...,.not YouTube...I know mine was not good or creative, but I did mine just for fun.
Greased touch screen was the creative one for me, congrats !
And congrats to all finalist, (I do not mean to be offensive, jsut being blunt).
Those two were the best ones. They were very creative and VERY original. Look at the other entries, theres 10 song videos, 30 addiction videos, and 30 "Love affair/in love with the Blackberry" videos. You should vote for the one that had the "WOW" factor, as said in the criteria. Greased Touch Screened was sad and depressing. And what do you mean by, "not YouTube"? Does that mean you think a video has to be shitty to be on YouTube? lol your logic is all wrong.
I know who I'm voting for...a video that had a lot of effort and "WOW" factor. One of those two...
ehhh, i tend to agree with aznhomieboy. Scent and Zombie had a lot of bells and whistles and clearly took a lot of effort but they didn't really do it for me. Don't get me wrong- they were great submissions and definitely in my top 10, but beyond the guns, cars, and explosions, Scent had little to do with blackberries. In the 9 minute film there were only a handful of references to his BLACKBERRY. I think the zombie one suffered from this too. Both were very entertaining and pretty to look at, but again, this contest was more specific than that. It wasn't "how much you love your cell phone", but "WHY you love your BLACKBERRY". In my opinion, neither of those videos answered that.
On the original contest page, it says "Think you're the biggest BlackBerry addict out there?,Can't live without it?, Do you love your blackberry?, Show Us!" That basically means show us that you love your blackberry. Scent answered that fully. The guy was showing his love for his blackberry by showing that he would kill for his blackberry. Also, I thought he made enough references to his blackberry. There's only so many times you can refer back to it. As for the zombie one, I thought it was good, but could of used a few more references so I agree with you on that one. Overall, I thought both were great, yet I think Scent sticks out just a little bit more.
The contest page explicitly states
"Step 1: Make Your "I Love My CrackBerry" Video
Make a video showing us Why You Love Your BlackBerry."
So, no, I don't think Scent, Zombie, or many other finalist fulfilled that "requirement" so to speak.
But of course, you're obviously entitled to your opinion and i'm just humbly explaining mine.
It depends on what YOU define as "WOW" factor, I think their video were ONLY SELECTED because of their ability to make a good movie (one of them did say they were a film student, did they not?). So where does that leave the norms? The people, like Alexandra and Charles, who had very very original ones and seem like home-made are the ones I think it's most effort put into it. For instance, Charles explained that he was not a kind of guy who would do such a thing, but because he and his friend had so much fun, they were able to create a funny lyrics to the song and able to make us laugh. That took more effort, I believe, than Scent of a Blackberry, just because their video seemingly look more professional, does not mean more effort was put into it. It just meant that these people have been previously trained to make good movies and have seen what OTHERS have done and decided to somehow implement it into a Blackberry contest. It took them a lot of time to edit and such, I'm sure, but I'm positive they are used to that by now since Scent's is a film student. Nonetheless, they did have a good entry. But I see them as a distraction and "popular" choice videos, not something that is creative.
In the end, I believe that the other entries, such as Alexandra's and Charles', is being masked by these popular videos, so I was just pointing out that maybe people should look the other videos and I encourage them to think wisely before you vote. That's all.
*EDIT: I hope you don't HONESTLY think that he loves his BB so much that he's willing to kill. And zombies? WHAT THE HECK is that and how does that tell me that he loves a Blackberry, or better yet, addicted to one?