Vidiocy and Podcasts...

Several years ago, Jason Chin and I came up with an idea for a video contest.  We would give each of our friends a randomly selected title and then give them 30 days to complete a movie.  We charged everyone $20 so that we could give a cash prize for the best movie.  We invited our friend Carrie Barrett to join us as a producer and she admitted that she had recently had a similar idea of having a movie contest for improvisors as well. We publicized Vidiocy and hoped people would want to do it.

We got a huge response!  The night of the viewing for the movies, the IO Theater was packed.  Most of the movies that were turned in were great.  They were funny, smart and in some cases, extremely well crafted.

We had so much fun, we decided to make it a regular event.  For awhile, we were doing it 3 times a year.

We haven't done one in 4 years, because I've been on a ship.   I knew I wanted us to revive the Vidiocy franchise, but we had to wait to get past my wedding and the holidays.

Now that both of things are over, we're ready to crank of the video cameras.  Vidiocy is back!

Online registration is today.  People can e-mail us at vidiocyshorts@gmail.com to register.  Once you pay the registration fee via PayPal, we'll send you your title.  You'll then have 30 days to complete your movie.

If you want to register in person, Jason and I will be sitting in the IO Training Center from 7pm to 9pm Tuesday, January 10th, signing people up.

Here are the rest of the details.

Vidiocy 2012!

Hello! Welcome to our video making contest and festival! Here are some of the Vidiocy rules and regulations:

Your video must only be 6 minutes in length maximum (it can be shorter.)

Videos displaying craftsmanship, originality, and creative use of the suggestion will be selected.

Videos may be submitted on flashdrive only.

Videos will be accepted in AVI & MP4.

Videos are due by midnight on February 10th the latest. Submissions will be accepted at the iO Box Office.

Flashdrives must be in an envelope with the registrants name, email, and title/suggestion on the front.

Finalists will be announced on Feb. 12th.

The Vidiocy Festival, with a showing of the finalists and an audience voting for our Top Three will be at 7pm, on Feb. 16th.

Questions? Let us know at “vidiocyshorts@gmail.com”.

The Vidiocy producers are Jeff Griggs, Anthony LeBlanc and Jason Chin.

 iO Theater is at 3541 N. Clark, DO NOT ask them questions. Ask the aforementioned trio.

Sign up, it's a lot of fun.

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If you haven't listened to our movie podcast lately, you really should.  The last two have been especially fun.  We did Gone With The Wind, and had a lot of laughs doing it.  Megan Hovde Wilkins joined, Brett, Becca and I and we really had fun diving in and discussing that massive movie.

iTunes Link:  Gone With The Wind

Website Link:  Gone With The Wind

Last week we discussed It's A Wonderful Life.  The podcast for that movie was one of the best we've done because Brett and Becca got in a huge fight about the movie.  Guillermo Lugo was our special guest for that one.  

iTunes Link:  It's A Wonderful Life

Website Link:  It's A Wonderful Life