We're all familiar with this – the mini competitions and little games we have with each other on a daily basis – each trying to pitch the other to the post. Every human being possesses a winner instinct that is evoked regardless of the challenge. Who can hit the waste basket the most times in a row, who can get to the toilet door the fastest, who gets across the intersection as Numero Uno etc?
hummel is now offering you and your video concept the chance to become a pivotal part of the company's fashion footwear campaign which is launched across Europe and in selected cinemas during spring 2010.
What to do
What we want you to do is to record the everyday little games you play with your friends and upload it to www.playstadil.com. It doesn’t have to be anything fancy – we're not looking for the next Steven Spielberg or James Cameron – most importantly, we're just looking for the video that has the most humour and reflects the edgy character of you and your friends.
Guidelines
hummel will not accept any videos containing explicitly sexual, violent, religious, discriminating or 'Jackass' type of material.
Want music for your video?
Unless you have permission from the artist or recording studio, unauthorized use of someone else's content - including music, video, images and other media - in your uploads is theft. Hummel International does not endorse such practice.
But this doesn't mean that you can't use music in your video. There are heaps of royalty-free music site out there. Some have contemporary songs, mixes, and loops that are licensed by their creators under Creative Commons, and some have older songs whose copyrights have expired and are thus in the public domain.
Here are some good examples. Some of the sites below require setting up a free account:
http://www.publicdomain4u.com/
Copyright-expired songs, including a lot of good blues and jazz.
http://www.musopen.com/
Musopen takes music (mostly classical) that is in the public domain and has it recorded by individuals and college/community orchestras throughout the U.S. and stored online so it can be accessed for free through this website.
http://www.jamendo.com/en/
An archive of CC-licensed music that’s available for download via P2P. You will need P2P software (e.g. BitTorrent http://www.bittorrent.com/) to download on jamendo.
http://www.sectionz.com/cc.asp
An electronic music community that offers CC-licensed tracks from genres like IDM, drum ‘n’ bass, and ambient.
http://www.opsound.org/index.php
Music samples and links to websites of artists whose work is CC-licensed.
http://freesound.iua.upf.edu/
A collaborative database of CC-licensed sounds (NOTE: these are samples of sounds — like rain falling — not music).
http://ccmixter.org/
A community music remixing site featuring remixes and samples licensed under CC licenses. Click on the MP3 link of your chosen song and, under your browser menu, click File, Save As to save the MP3 to your computer.
http://ibeat.org/
A music production wav file archive: Loops, beats, fills, shots, samples, packs and instrumentals, available under a Creative Commons License
NOTE: If you do your own search for royalty-free music sites, be sure to read carefully. Some sites (excluding those listed above) have hidden fees, subscription costs, or unreasonable obligations.
Make your own: Of course, you can also make your own music with easy-to-use software like GarageBand (comes with every Macintosh) or MAGIX Music Maker (for PCs, costs around $60). Here are some other resources for music composing software:
Visitor Suggested Sites:
* http://www.makingmusic.net/
* http://musicmoz.org/Computers/Software/Windows/
* Archive.org has lots of cc/free/open source music (as well lots of other cc/free/open source content).
* PremiumBeat.com
* LoudFeed.com
* www.antiqcool.co.uk
* goingware.com
Send us links to other good sites and we’ll add them. Thanks!