Mix Magazine and Blastwave FX presents the Blastwave FX Sound Design Competition, a new contest challenging participants to showcase their creativity – design a soundtrack for a 30 second video clip using HD sound effects provided by Blastwave FX.
Celebrity judges including Academy-Award winners Richard King and Dane Davis, and Golden Reel Nominee Charles Deenen will select the winner who will receive The BLASTDRIVE ($5999 value), a 400 GB HD sound effects library with search engine.
The Rules
- The soundtrack can be abstract or literal, surreal or real. We’re curious to see how you sonically interpret the footage.
- Judging Criteria: The judges will evaluate entries based on creative use of sound effects, how well the soundtrack supports the video or vise versa, and structure and flow from beginning to end.
- The Winner must be prepared to describe how they created their sound narrative, such as what kinds of effects and editing techniques they used, software used, etc.
- Audio format for entries: 16-bit 48 or 44.1 kHz stereo .wav file (audio only, please)
- Submit entries to info@blastwavefx.com by September 15, 2009.
- You are only allowed to use sounds included in the download package. You are not allowed to use sounds from any other source. You are allowed and encouraged to manipulate, chop up, process, layer, distort etc. the sounds.
- Participants’ names will be withheld from judges.
- The winner receives The BLASTDRIVE ($5,999 value) and mention on www.mixonline.com, www.remixonline.com and www.blastwavefx.com.
- Participants release all ownership rights related to their soundtrack to Mix Magazine and Blastwave FX.
Registration
- Register HERE.
- Download 50 free sound effects and 30 second video clip
- Design Away! (severe processing/manipulation is allowed!)
- Submit your entry by September 15, 2009
Sound FX Preview
And video here.
The Judges
- 2009 Academy Award Winner Richard King
- Golden Reel Nominee Charles Deenen
- 2000 Academy Award Winner Dane Davis
The Prizes
The BLASTDRIVE is the colossal anthology of every Blastwave FX library released. The BLASTDRIVE contains 31,700 HD sound effects and production elements – that’s 397 GB of royalty-free sounds! The BLASTDRIVE comes pre-installed on a premium 500 GB Glyph hard drive.
Feature Summary:
- 31,700 HD sound effects pre-installed
- 500 GB Glyph GT 050Q drive (FireWire 400/800, USB 2.0/eSata)
- Broadcast .wav files (24/96, 24/48, 16/44.1) & mp3
- 1300 5.1 Surround Sound Imaging Elements
- Search Software: Search, Audition, Drag N’ Drop
- Mac and PC compatible
- Glyph 3 Year Warranty
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OK, so the 320×180 clip is 30fps and the 1280×720 clip is 29.97fps. Both are delivered in the download package. If someone builds against 1 clip and it is judged against the other, their material will drift out of sync!!!! So which should be used or which frame rate should the final submission be delivered in? Seems like both clips should run at the same frame rate….duh!
Well just do the math…
30 frames per second for 30 seconds comes to 900 frames by the end.
29.97 fps x 30s = 899.1 frames
now to our honorable judges, a frame means a lot in their work, but for this thirty second clip i think that the drift will not be significant enough to affect the sync greatly since by the end of the clip it hasn’t even drifted a whole frame.
besides the rules make no mention of having a pop in or out for the clip, or explicitly state whether or not to include the intro and outro titles as silence in the bounce or to start right when picture starts so there is probably going to be some sync issue for a lot of these submissions.
30 sec is enough to notice the drift by the end. I checked my submission built against the HD 29.97 clip and the checked it against the lo-res 30fps clip, and it was noticeable enough for me to bother bringing the issue up. Noticeable enough for someone on the mix stage to say “hey, effect is out of sync…it should be on the cut…”
Good point on the intro and outro titles and sync pops. The titles are not part of the “30 secs” of clip. Adding the titles in make the clip about 43 seconds.
Ive emailed blastwave about this, but have not heard back.
Right. Good thing to shoot them an email. So you noticed because it was drifting? Dang that really is a problem. And I totally agree that its something they should have watched out for. Especially since the shots cut back and forth between the durations of each splash, making it all the more important to keep sync.
heard back from Blastwave…the HD 29.97 clip is correct.
anyone building against the lo-res 30fps clip will need to pulldown their video and make sure their submission runs at 29.97 AKA video speed.
dang… okay thanks for the update
according to blastwave…
judges will only judge the 30 sec PSA and not any design to the intro and outro titles. However, the submissions put up on blastwave’s site will include the intro and outro, so it may be beneficial to include design for those elements.
and last of all, according to blastwave…
submissions should include the intro and outro whether or not any sound is designed for them. They should be the length of the full clip and not just the 30 secs of PSA.
I am told that all registrants should be getting an email clarifying the details that sem to have slipped through the cracks.
wow… thats all super important… way to go blast fx on a major fail… thanks dude
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