Onboard Diary

The Cosmonaut Movie Blog
&larr Film home
&larr Home

Blog in Spanish

Winners from the Teaser Remix Experience

After a week of thorough discussions, we now have the list of winners of the Teaser Remix Experience. The election has been so difficult that we ended up creating a special category, to award even more remixes. But we'll tell you all about it below.

Before announcing the winners, let's remember what were the prizes. The winner will get a LOMO L-CA+, meanwhile for the second and third places and the 8 áccesits, they will received a LOMO OKTOMAT. All of the winners, except the 8 áccesits, will have a month subscription to The Auteurs and a special Riot Cinema pack.

Without further ado, the names of the winners are:   

First prize goes to Robert Pratten, becuse his perfect remix from beginning to end, on its atmosphere, as well as the image treatment process, as well as the game about the memory,  las lomos and everything else. It is the mind of the Cosmonaut in images. Inspiring.

On second place we have Miriam Mira remix. This teaser is, without a doubt, the best that managed to capture the essence of the movie beyond images, using fragments from the first draft of the script and it's own text and giving it an absolute radical spin to the general aesthetic seen on the totality of all the teasers. It is a jump into the void, an act of love.  

Edgar Lledó takes the third place. His teaser is, maybe, the one close enough to the aesthetics of the movie. Its content, promising and well rounded. The treatment of the image is by far the best we have seen.  





First prize: Robert Pratten




Second Prize: Miriam Mira




Third Prize: Edgar Lledó


We go on now to enumerate the eight áccesits.

Jack Shadow. We have been flabbergasted by the backwards take of the cosmonaut, in which his eyes seem completely white.   

Tom Schestak. We think this is a very bold teaser. It's first 20 seconds is a work of art, playing with the thunderous sound as he removes his helmet . Because of its experimentalism, a worthy teaser remix.

Santiago Fernández. A pretty disturbing teaser. The take of the cosmonaut "flying" backwards seeming like it was been absorbed has our 5 start rating. 

Alfonso Martínez. The use of interpose still film frames is superb. Besides, the sound, the takes and music make a good tight teaser remix. 

Visiophone. Experimentalism and lomos, what more can you ask for? 

Óscar Rabasa. This may pretty well be the most classic of them all. It's a very "American" movie feel to it, but on a closer look with all that written text, it managed to put our hairs on end. It captured pretty well the spirit of the film. 

Ernesto Valiente. A unique atmosphere through the use of still film frames and inverted takes. The music is another point in favor. 

Antonio Jarreta. Because it's different, epic and for being ambitious. 

We finished the list of winners with three additional award badges, creating it's own new category. This new category is for all those remix teasers that seem more like a video clip than a teaser trailer. All three of them, will be given a T-Shirt with the logo of the hummingbird  and a copy of Poetic for cosmonauts, the book that inspired the film script. 

Gil McRipley. What can we say about this teaser? It's was love at first sight. Humming the song under our breath while we worked. We have seen it a million times and showed it to all our friends. 

Isaac Rupérez. Few times have a song moved us so much, and it's exceptional use of the images with the music. 

Alberto Romo. For it's amazing work put into this "video clip", worthy of winning this award, but also, for using a format different from that being posted online, adjusting the images to a superb ratio of 2:35, making it worthy of its award. 

The only thing left is to congratulate all of the winners and thank all of those who participated in the contest. We also take this opportunity to thank those who made possible the original teaser trailer, to Cumie, for letting use her song and her voice; to Jonathan Mellor, who dub the English voice over; to Alexey Shurupov, who dub the disturbing Russian voice and to the rest of the people who participated in the creation of the teaser: Carlos Martínez-Abarca, Rubén Durán, Daniel Torrelló, Ezequiel Romero, Angel Trancón, Juan Cabrera, Miki Ávila, Edward Artemyev, Luz Nicolás, Carola Rodríguez, Javier Serrano, Margarita Mansilla y Silvia Benito).

 We leave you with a few words from the film director of the movie. 

As the film director, seeing each of the 78 teaser presented continuously to the contest  has been a wide opening experience. Not only have they made me realize the sheer magnitude of this project and of the potential of what we are putting forward. But also being deeply moved. It made my hair stand on end thinking of all the people that played, giving a new interpretation to the images and on the multiples ways it transform the teaser. 


And not only that. Also, seeing them as a whole, I have learnt more about cinema than any other class about editing or realization. This is a magnificent exercise to see how a piece of work can change the view of the creator. How you can go from one edge to the other, from the experimental to the classic Hollywood. From the contemplative to the emotive. 

I strongly urge everybody to download them all and give yourself the pleasure to learn. This have has been to me, a wide opening experience.

All that there is left for me to do is to give a big THANK YOU, for making of this movie a bit more real and beautiful than yesterday's dream. 

Nicolás Alcalá
0 comments

80 remixes end the Teaser Remix Experience

The 30th of May was our deadline for the Teaser Remix Experience, our remix teaser trailer contest for The Cosmonaut. 

As the deadline approached the end of our constest, we can now count all of the remixes. And it couldn't be better. Getting near to the hundred remixes: We currently have 80 stupendous remixes, well 78 to be exact.


It all started with a remix done by Ruben Durán (it's the first video on the post). His remix made our hairs stand on end with his splendid use of the music, a track from the band God Is An Astronaut, which enhance the power of the images. But, as you may already know, it didn't end there.

Throughout the length of the contest, remixes kept on pouring, every kind of imaginable teaser, even some parodies of the movie! This is the case of the last entry, Fuchsia Cosmonaut (the second video on the post). But also the indispensable El Cosmononsense or the original CosmoMonkeys.

The results are in and we will announce the winners throughout the week. Meanwhile, here's a little recap of the prizes:

  • Remix Pilot (1st prize): Lomo LC-A+ camera, a subscription to The Auteurs and a special Riot Cinema pack.

  • Remix Co-Pilot (2nd prize): Lomo OKTOMAT camera (aka "la Lomo Super8"),  a subscription to The Auteurs and a special Riot Cinema pack.

  • Áccesits (8 en total): Lomo OKTOMAT camera.

Thanks to everyone who participated on the contest and ...  good luck!


0 comments

Remix my looks

A few days ago we told about how some of the reinterpretations of our Teaser give a very interesting  twist to the visual aesthetics. One more, for your eyes only. This one reminds us of those start of the century photographs, or of long-gone Cinema relics.



By Mark Jansen, from sunny New Jersey.
0 comments

Remix: Extreme look variations

Two of the most extreme Remixes in terms of the look of the visuals. Take a look, compare and, if you think you can do it better... take part in the contest and win prizes!

Original Teaser



Joriah Goad's remix



 Jack Shadow's remix

0 comments

Remix Me, Baby!

From the start we've intended The Cosmonaut to be a participatory experience. An experience that might help us prove the power of using free licenses. Having played with different options and after a serious trial period, we are launching in collaboration with The Auteurs the first remix contest that will help us achieve just that: the Teaser Remix Experience.

cosmos.pngYou can enter the contest from our Download section

We have put at your disposal 30 video clips (we haven't even used half of them :P), sound environment, CGI, music (two samples of Artemyev's soundtrack for Tarkovski's Solarys), voiceovers in Russian and English and title backgrounds, everything you need is in there!.


You have until the 31st of March to send in your remix teaser.
The winners will be announced in this year's edition of the Yuri's Night.

garagepagelomo.png
The prizes? For now we'll give you a preview: special edition 'The Comsonaut' LOMO LCA cameras and the charming pop Russian spark of sequential OKTOMAT's..





 To bring you this contest we've been working side by side with:

http://www.elcosmonauta.es/media/garagegarage.png
The Auteurs - Online cinematéque and distributor of The Criterion Collection, has collaborated with Martin Scorsese's World Cinema Foundation. With more than a million users it has become THE place to watch, recommend, comment and debate -and now even edit- auteur cinema online  :)


The Auteurs GARAGE
Garage
- A division of The Auteurs Garage is a collaborative initiative, an online film school that has been recently launched to connect filmmakers from all over the world to work in editing, filming and production projects. Perhaps you've heard of it 'cause it's been generating loads of buzz.


http://www.europephotobloggers.org/files/images/lomography_logo.gif
Lomography Spain - Spain's official representative of the photographic phenomenon born in Russia -with strong ties to military photography- a few decades ago. A few months ago they helped us put together " Dreams of the Cosmonaut", a collaborative experience where hundreds of lomo photos explored the Universe of a film that hasn't even been born yet. Now they've put at your disposal all that material licensed under CC and will award the best remixers with cameras of Russian names :)

http://www.onoff.cl/festival-ficha/logo_unifest.jpg
Unifest -  After four editions where more than 80 universities from over 30 countries have participated, UNIFEST celebrates its fifth anniversary giving out over 8000€ in prizes to University students. The definitive festival when it comes to cinema created by university students. We will soon reveal the prizes UNIFEST will give-out to university student remixers.


http://t3.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:g4ujTHJuGRJKuM:http://i37.photobucket.com/albums/e51/Fbyvids/Imagination%20Land/UOC_marcaweb.jpg
UOC - A regular collaborator of The Cosmonaut, the Universidad Oberta de Catalunya is Spain's most renowned University in new media education; collaborative creation, free software, transmedia, crowdsourcing: these are all familiar words to their syllabus. Eager to try and experiment with new things they are happy to support initiatives like the Teaser Remix Experience. The how's and when's will soon be revealed :)


http://www.elcosmonauta.es/media/garagesafe.png
SafeCreative - the first online copyright registry in the world: global, free, open and independent. It offers creators the opportunity to register and host their works and supports all kinds of licences (from traditional copyright to Creative Commons to à la carte licenses). Part of an ambitious collaboration with Riot Cinema, SC will eventually host the film and all our raw footage. What's more, they'll aid us in figuring out the semantic ID of the film online, in other words, the best way to let users know which licenses are free and which are restricted without confusing links, no added documentation and without altering the film itself.


http://www.elcosmonauta.es/media/garagearchive.png
The Internet Archive
- A non-profit organization whose main purpose is to preserve all free licensed multimedia, or those works filmmakers have decided to share freely. It's by far the largest open source film, audio and text archive. The Cosmonaut, and all raw footage, will be hosted in the "Open Source Video" section.

0 comments

The Remix step by step :)

We begin in the section 'Downloads' and go all the way to the Garage website.

garagethumbs.png
1) Download the clips . You can take a peek (left click) or save them (right click:saves file as...).


If you want to save time, you can download them directly in TWO PACKS (ZIP file). Don't forget you have EXTRAS:129 MB of audio, images, etc...all in HD.





(If you want, you can click from here)

2) Edit them using your favourite video editor.

cinelerra.png3) Export them to Vimeo.
    They explain you how to...

4) Upload them to Vimeo.

vimeoterms.png
If you don't have a user account, you should create one. It's simple and it's free.  Plus, they're serious guys that make the sharing of movies, for streaming addicts like us or our friends at The Auteurs, a delight. And nop, they're not paying us to say this -sigh!..

5) In the Garage page, click "UPLOAD FILM".

upload.png

 If you don't have an account at The Auteurs, you'll have to create one. It's quite straightforward; all you need is a username, an email and a password.  No spam, no endless registration forms, no BS. What else can you do at The Auteurs? Buff! Check it out! (yes, we're huge fans, and no, they're not paying us either :P )....

loginauteurs.png
 
6) Fill in the form and insert the Vimeo ID for your video: this is the number in the URL of your video. Be cheeky and tag yourself as "Director" (afterall, you made the damn thing!). Then click "UPLOAD".

vimeoid.png
If you want to participate in any other Garage project you might have to include the Garage logo in your piece. You don't have to do so for the Remix Experience.

Remember to have an 448x252 pix. image -or similar­- at hand (if it's not the same size it'll flatten it a bit. Although it's barely noticeable :P  ) to represent your Remix.  Select an image that is eye-catching and original, remember there'll be many other videos!

448x225 copia.png(Click to see original size)
0 comments

About the hosting of the materials.


All the material is first hosted at The Internet Archive.


If you have any problems, you can go to our directory and download the clips individually (1) or in two packs (2).

archive.png
... and we have a copy at SafeCreative.

If you continue to have download problems, you can download the materials from their website. Access our directory, search for what you want, click on it, and in the details page look for the button "Download this work".

downloadthiswork.pngIn SC you'll find all our material hosted in 2 packs, the extras and official teasers in HD.

0 comments

Still hungry for images? Three more teasers of "The Cosmonaut"!

As from tomorrow you can take part in the Teaser Remix Experience we have developed along with the guys from TheAuteurs.com. You'll be able to create your own The Cosmonaut teasers...and win prizes!






Thanks for making our first one a complete success, for commenting on it, for criticizing it...tomorrow you'll be able to take it apart, edit, copy, modify it and make a parody of it, why not?   :)


The third and fourth teasers include music composed by Edvard Artemyev, who has along with Andrei Tarkovski created one of the most memorable composer-director tandems in the history of cinema. Artemyev has been wonderful to us. He wrote this letter a few months ago (we couldn't help but get teary-eyed) and has ceded the rights for this theme to the project, so we may use it freely. The song is included in the remix package material.


All the material is licensed under CC By-SA 3.0 PLUS (+) Some of the material, e.g Artemyev's music, may only be used in the context of The Cosmonaut. More info at Vimeo.
.

0 comments

recommended blogs

Riot Cinema Collective Vostok Design Pendiente de Título El Pecado Original Remate La Nueva Industria Audiovisual We ♥ Cinema

links

Riot Cinema Collective Vostok Design Pendiente de Título Laszlo Kovacs Javi Arce Jeremy Geddes Art Sonia "DieKatze" Portfolio Angel Trancón Portfolio PlatypusLab Manuel Alcalá LomoSpain Robin&Watson Leem La Compañía La Comida Fotografías de Nicolás Alcalá NO-MANIFIESTO de Riot Cinema Cc Twitter Facebook Tuenti Vimeo Planetaki RSS