Well, it's June.
So, as promised I'm going to be announcing
the winners of the music Undone challenge
that I put on last month with Artlist.
Let's get Undone?
[offbeat music]
♪ Gerald Undone ♪
♪ He's crazy ♪
What's happening everybody? I'm Gerald Undone
and don't fake the funk on that nasty dunk.
So, I spent the other night watching all of the submissions
for this contest and I have to say that I was
really impressed not only with the number
of submissions, but also the quality of them.
It was very hard to pick a winner
and there are so many videos that I really like.
So, before we get into the winners, I just want
to give some honourable mentions to the videos
that did not win but I thought were really good
and definitely deserve their day in the sun.
So, first up we've got Jack Trent from Twitter
who submitted this really fun Mission Impossible-style
mini film that I thought was really creative and interesting.
[mysterious electronic music]
[thumping baseline]
♪
[engine revving]
♪
I can only assume that they weren't actually
driving for that scene, but they did really well
to give the illusion that the car was moving
and I thought that was really cool.
Next up, we've got krischan-rudolph from Instagram
that has this really cool bike montage video
that has some excellent shots-- check this out.
♪
That's pretty sweet. Next up,
we've got NXGEN which did a water-cooled
server maintenance and update and I thought it was
really, really cool, some of the shots in here and they also
used my intro in their video, so, you know, points for that.
[funky electronic music]
♪
[heavily synthesized] Let's get Undone.
Now this next one was called "Kuleshov's ear shot."
And what I thought was really cool--
if you guys know what the Kuleshov effect is,
it's where they show a person's face
and then they show a particular clip, and then the person's face
and then maybe something happy, and the person's face, and then
something cruel, then the person's face and it's supposed
to let you as a viewer see if, you know, if it looks like
the person's relatively flat expression
is changing based on the scenes
that it's juxtaposed with. What they did here
was they actually showed the same scene back and forth,
but they just changed the music behind the scene
to see if you would have a different opinion
on that person's face based on
the way that the music was presented under the scene.
Now it kind of violated the idea a little bit because
they used three songs and-- but I definitely thought it was
worth mentioning because it's a really great idea.
[funky electronic music]
[slow emotional piano music]
Also, you got to give points for the dolly zoom
during all of the expression shots.
Alright, this next one is just wild.
It's by Brendan West and I felt that it was important
to mention because the whole video is done in stop-motion.
It's absolutely ridiculous because
it's just a light going crazy.
But kudos on the stop-motion and I really
appreciate the creativity. Here, check this one out.
[upbeat electronic music]
♪
Alright, this next one. I really, really liked
and the creator Lorentz R--
I have another note to make about them as well.
So, I definitely wanted to give them a shout out
in this video for two reasons.
The first one is their submission.
I thought was fantastic.
They integrated it into a book
and I thought they did really well to
camera movements and shots in order to make it actually
seem like the pages were being turned in the book and stuff.
I thought it was excellent. Here, just check this out.
[gentle piano music]
♪
So, I thought that was great.
But I also wanted to give a bit of
a double shout out to the creator Lorentz R because
a couple weeks ago they uploaded another video
which was based on-- Do you remember
that macro gimbal camera movement video
I made where I film the Game Boy and showed how
you could do different camera movements on your gimbal?
Well, they basically recreated that shot for shot
but with a different subject and I thought they did
a great job. Check out a little bit of that.
[upbeat energetic music]
♪
It's really encouraging to see that you guys are enjoying
my tutorials and then putting those
techniques into practice with great results.
Another interesting fact about the competition by the way, even
though it may not be reflected in those honourable mentions
we just went through, was that the most used song by far
was that soft piano one.
I would say about 70% of the submissions used that track
and in some ways it's kind of the easiest
and safe choice, you know, it's pretty music.
So, just shoot some landscapes and you've got yourself
a seemingly poignant video, but it's also much harder
to spot the work that goes into it to make it line up
with the music because it's much more floaty
and doesn't have as obvious cut points.
That being said though, some of the videos using that music
were gorgeous, including this next one,
which is the last of our honourable mentions
and so close to being a winner.
This is easily my fourth favourite video
and definitely deserving of being in the top three
and I felt so bad when I had to drop it down
out of the Winner's Circle. So, here you go.
This is from Chris Edwards, and it's just beautiful.
[soft piano music]
♪
Those shots, man! Outstanding!
Really, really, really good work, Chris.
Alright now on to the winners. Interestingly,
my top three choices all use a different song.
So, let's start with third place from Alexander Ciprian.
[upbeat electronic music]
♪
This video nailed this song. I like how the video itself
was music-themed and it was edited to the music masterfully.
And I could also clearly hear the changes and remixing
done to the original track, so excellent job all around.
Now, second place is quite a bit different. It uses
that softer piano music but overcame the difficulties
I described about choosing that track and remixed it in a way
that really highlighted the story that this video tells.
[soft piano music]
♪
[woman sighing]
♪
[mooing]
♪
[gentle chiming]
♪
Well timed music swells, beautifully shot,
and I appreciated the sound design as well.
Just fantastic work from RPL videos.
Alright, now for first place, which in my opinion is pretty
much perfect when it comes to a 60-second B-roll montage.
[deep, pulsing electronic music]
♪
Amazing shots, gorgeously graded,
and really, really good sound mixing,
and most important of all, the video marries
really well with the music in a purposeful
and entertaining way. So, Bounce J, you get first place.
Congratulations, you deserve it. I'm going to be reaching out
to all the winners on the platforms that they uploaded
from but if you're watching this video now and you see
that I announced your name, feel free to reach out and message me
at whatever platform is best for you.
The winners are Bounce J,
RPL videos, and Alexander Ciprian. And thanks again
to all of you who submitted a video.
I know I didn't get to mention all of them.
But there were so many great videos.
But if I did mention all of them
this video would be over an hour long
And thanks again to Artlist for sponsoring this video
so that we could run this contest.
And again, if you want to get music
like this, make sure you check out
the link in the description below for Artlist,
so you can get two extra months when you sign up.
And hopefully we can do another contest
like this soon so I can see more of your awesome work
so that more of you will have an opportunity to win, and so that
you all have another reason to get out there and shoot.
But that's gonna be it for me. I hope you found this video
helpful or at least entertaining, and if you did
make sure you leave it the old thumbs up
and consider subscribing if you haven't already,
but if you did not find this video helpful or entertaining
feel free to hit the dislike button twice.
Alright... I'm done.
♪