Sankat City : BAND BAJAO Contest
Sankat City : BAND BAJAO CONTEST
Update July 15, 2009. Entries to the contest is now closed. We thank you all for your participation. Winners will be announced on July 23rd 2009.
Update : The contest closing date is extended to July 5th JULY 15th, 2009, as the movie release date has been shifted by a week. The winner will be announced on JULY 23rd, 2009.
Everybody who thought they knew something or anything about Background music, here’s your chance to flex your creative muscles…
Presenting the Sankat City : BAND BAJAO Contest
The CONTEST :
1. Download the trailer with no sound. (Right click here and select Save As)
2. Watch the trailer.
- Important – Trailer Theme: the trailer has a 70’s hindi film trailer vibe
3. Stretch your creative imagination. What’s the best background score you think goes with the theme of the trailer? Remember your selected background score should sync in with the Theme of the trailer.
4. Your background score should only contain music. No Dialogues or Spoken words. Entries with dialogues or spoken words will be rejected.
5. Use any video editing tools to input this background score into the video. YouTube also has great one click tools to swap audio for any video you upload to your YouTube account.
6. Upload the trailer with your background score to YouTube or any other video sharing site
7. Come back to this post. In the comments section – Add your name, email and city and link to your uploaded trailer
8. Last day to receive entries is June 27th 10PM Pacific Standard Time, that’s June 28th 10:30am Indian Standard Time.
9. You can enter as many entries as you like.
10. Winner will be decided by the Sankat City crew and announced on June 30th, 2009 here on PFC
The PRIZE:
The winning entry gets Rs. 10,000 from the director Pankaj Advani
A gift pack of DVDs and CDs from Moser Baer
So hop in and create some SANKAT! And pass this contest news on to your friends and family. Spread the Sankat around!
To Download the Trailer : Right Click here and select Save As
Please Note –
1. You are free to use your own created background score or a score that you think is most appropriate for this trailer. In using background music created by others, please use your discretion and get appropriate approvals if needed. Though we will accept all entries, the team of Sankat City, Moser Baer and PFC, will not be responsible for contestants using background scores from other sources.
2. The prize offered by Moser Baer and the director of the movie are deliverable in India only.
3. Last day of entering the contest is June 27th 10PM Pacific Standard Time. Any entries inserted in the comment section after this date and time will not be considered.
4. The team of Sankat City and PFC have the right to refuse entry to any participant
5. The decision of the judges will be final.
Anurag Kashyap
Abhay Deol
Dibakar Banerjee
Hansal Mehta
Khalid Mohamed
Kundan Shah
Anish Kuruvilla
Jaideep Verma
Manish Gupta
Navdeep Singh
Bhavani Iyer
D. Santosh
Onir
Ashvin Kumar
Ramu Ramanathan
Sudhir Mishra
Pankaj Advani
Revathy
Saurabh Shukla
Shilpa Shukla
Sujoy Ghosh
Suparn Verma
Santosh Sivan
Shashank Ghosh
Shivajee
Pavan Kaul
Partho Sen-Gupta
Prroshant Naryannan
Sam Langoria
Satish Kasetty
Now this is what I’m talking about!!!
aisa Score karega na!!
mano ya na mano!!
about a trailer :
hahaha kya trailer hai!!
Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!
Yaar Shekhar If background score is scored on a normal keyboard how do I upload/copy to the computer? Or which software should I use to score?
Haa haa haa….trailer-art ka MF Husain-screws-Raja-ravi-verma bana diya hai bhai. Ekdum “sex-romaanch-aur-action-se-bharpoor-chitra” lag raha hai!
Which reminds of Leela Cinema hall in Lucknow whose 4 inch by 4 inch film-posters in Sunday newspapers always had a ‘film synopsis type thing’ written by the crazy Theatre owner (or their publicist). He would use words like ‘Raj aur Simran ka dahakta hua romance’ to promote DDLJ.
) And he never forgot to mention ‘Naye Pankhey’ installed in the hall for at least 4-years.
My bakchodi entry for the contest
My second bakchodi but Non Entry ( background has spoken words)
Sow me the monies!!!!
Third entry to the contest… ho gaya kalyan!
@Shekhar – have you seen russ meyer’s Mudhoney trailer? cooler than faster pussycat kill kill!
@Oz – kya baat hai sir, love your choice of music, especially the 3rd one.
@all – check out trailers of the man from planet X, bride of the monster, attack of the alien caveman, first man into space, journey to the seventh planet, they came from far away! solid!!
@Pankaj…
With 2 weeks remaining for the release, I guess its high time the promos hit the screen and create some sort of awareness. Interestingly I saw two song promos of Sankat city in bollywoodhungama site. The promos so far look very promising, but am afraid it will go down the drain since New York is also releasing the same day.
Would request you to create an email chain with interesting pics, promos and captions and fwd them to all the corporate junta. Atleast this covers good amount of multiplex junta and hence more word of mouth publicity.
Pankaj saab,
yes I like Russ Meyer,
gosh I wish I had those “Badmash Kanyas”!!!
Mumbai Pune Highway ko “Gunaho ka Maidan” bana deta!
@Vinay
I use Garage Band software for composing music quickly, (its a in built Mac application)
but I’ll let you know when I get the info regarding your query .
My entry for the contest. It’s very amateur doing this for the 1st time i wud love ur comments thnx!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZBdRAoMC5Vc
@oz how do u embed youtube videos?
That is trippy… Garage band at play?
really really excited about this! managed to (con)vinced a white collar mnc type maverick musician, a frustrated broke struggling aspiring film maker and an uber cool upcoming dj to participate in this! nd all 3 of ‘em have promised me half the loot when they insha allah win the contest. LOL!
@oz Yea Garage Band.. some of it is horrendous but i didnt wanna miss te chance.. thanx for embeding it…
Oz yaar, what an entry. Though half of it is copied from other 70s “soundtracks”, it still has elevated the trailer. You certainly have captured the “emosans” behind the scenes
@Cherish (9) – Thanks for the suggestion. I’ve no clue how to go about it, will check with friends. BTW, release might get shifted to 3rd July, haven’t received official confirmation yet. Promos are supposed to start this sunday onwards.
july 3rd? pakka? ticket karwa loon sarkar? ;-) all the very best. so we have time for some more bakchodi. haha.
My entry for the contest:
Credits:
1. Tripwire [Indian Band] Song: Blitzkriep Bop cover of Ramones
2. GreenDay’s 21st Century Breakdown Song
PankajG: It does not give the 70s feel but this is what my perspective is…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GKyl4HLPOWM
can we edit the video ?
Take care not get caught in the intricacies of Copyright Law.
Those kids from Indonesia must sue our film-makers, to make them appreciate originality.
I am totally at loss here…how do I go about it? What do I do? Where do I go? ( Thanks Dhoni! ) HELP!
Am totally at loss here. How do I go about it? What do I do? Where do I go? ( Thanks, Dhoni! ). I have a hundred tunes swarming in my head, my talent is restless, it wants to spill forth. Par iss ki ma ki kirkiri, how do I put the sound on the video?!!
HELP!!!
easy: look for all video software you have on your computer. then type this in google : how to add music to video in. eg. how to add music to video in QuickTime pro..
@Chaitanya – Anand did, his cut is better
Credits:
* Every Music composers of the 70’s
Credits:
* Every Musici Composer of the 70’s.
Great Job Arun!!!
Best out of all..xxxx..
Your the achiever!!
I love the back ground music throws out what the video has to says…. Cool one.
xx..all the best..xx
Outstanding job Chief!!!
You must win it..
Wish you Luck..
:x
Susan
wow… finally you uploaded your trailer!!!!
Cant wait for the movie to release
Really GREAT Arun!!
Best of Luck:)
Natasha & Rhett
This guy works with me. How cool is that!
And how much cooler is the soundtrack yo!
Great job, and all the best.
@Arun – SOOPER COOOL!
nice job arunbrk ..saw your work while posting mine..the work is really nice
sameer gupta
sameersmail@gmail.com
New Delhi
@pankaj, ‘the baffling plot’ heading when kher is rolling the bowl, is some reference to The Dude Lebowski?
did a lot of editing on the previous post of mine .. hope this one gets better of it
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vM0ITB4Rmg4
sameer gupta
sameersmail(at)gmail(.)com
new delhi
Have entirely created the score myself. I’ve tried to make the music sound ‘old’ so that it DOES sound like a 70s theme music. Hope you like it…..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ysjTmwUrdN4
Hi again !
Forgot to mention my city, Mumbai.
BTW, how do you embed the video in the post?
Hey guys, which software to use????????? Dont have garageband. Spent all of last week’s local train travelling formulating background score for the trailer. Which software? Arun’s score’s the best till now.
Wish to use the train’s running as the beats and compose the score as per the running frames. Will keep an original soundtrack, but will only replicate the instruments (main) to 70’s. Again, which software?
Arun , Big B must be feeling bad that u were not there during the 70’s to score music for his movies… Grt work !
The sound effects are too gud!
Lage Raho Arunbhai… All the Best!
@Pankaj
Not sure where to write this..but nevertheless continuing here….
This is in continuation with the email based marketing thing I had suggested earlier.
Apparently I got an mail today from some junk email id promoting a tamil movie. The email id has Namitha’s (tamil actress) name. The email has several poster’s taglines…and some video promo’s link in it. And its colourful too. I presume that they might have approached some marketing database companies to give email id’s of its existing client list (like for ex. tamil songs download sites which will require email validation) and they email all of them. Its cheap and kind of statistically proven to be effective. My email id is cherish.k@gmail.com. I can send in the email that i received for your preview.
This kind of marketing actually targets the tech savvy guys and in particular the multiplex junta. Hope it helps
Thanks
@arun: liked the work.. good good.. all the best
@Arun: Awesome job with the sound editing and effects!! You are the best man, hand down. Hope Pankaj gives you the award!! ALL the best!
Shivdas! awesome score man! all original??! amazing, ur a genius in the making.. thumbs up to u! sounds very classy n suits the visual to a T
Composed this Background Score by Myself. Hope you guys will like.
Vaibhav
City – Chandigarh
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yRnPwBkST7o
Very interesting submissions.
Arun, good job with pulling from the 70s soundtracks.
-R
@ Arun –
HO ho ho mazedar mazedar..
Good show dude.
Am sure this gonna be first on audience poll.
Reema
I still vote for Shivdas’s score. It is (a) original & fresh-sounding (b) has a distinct 70s feel while not sounding jaded, the way actual 70s clips tend to sound, (c) the variations in the track are totally in sync with the visual transitions (i esp. loved the cabaret parts, gives a nice lift to the entire score). Good luck to you, Shivdas!
And did i mention that the ending simply rocks!
great stuff, man, u got real finesse
I fully agree with Geeta. Shivdas, ur track is simply marvellous! A truly professional job!! And its apt for the trailer. Every change in rhythm is perfect for the visual and its so completely 70’s. In fact while hearing the track I could actually visualise Amitabh Bacchhan / Vinod Khanna and Ajit in the roles being played by KK Menon and anupam kher!! Thats what music should do…transfix u and create an authentic ambience. Shivdas’ track is undoubtedly the best so far!!!
cool entries! great job guys. thanks for the effort you’ve put in. and keep them coming!
Hey,
The contest will close on July 5th, but when and how will the winner be announced?
Shivdas
Mumbai
@Geeta & @Rajani, Thank you so much ! Your apreciative words are really worth all my effort !
Shivdas which software did you use?
The official entry of Moksh & Magik is here:
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S3EdbFEmpno
May the best one win!
@magik – Nothin can be better than this…its just S.U.P.E.R.B.
Its simply awesome…its fawkin great. I am sure..u gonna win this too. There shud be MAGIK written on all the walls of Sankat City.
My luck by chance is wid you man…rock on.
Cheers !!
Ashu Bhai MAPRM Wale
another one!
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AitQBa3XoIU
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When the team worx, the dream worx!
@Magik
Fantastic, you got it right!!
(I couldnt participate this time :(
@ Shekhar: thanks bro. but picture abhi baaki hai mere dost! Last date July 5 hai! You still got about 10 days… kuchh kar yaar! u were the one most enthu abt this gig. ur first comment “aisa Score karega na!!” to kar na bhai… all da best.
City – Mumbai
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UyMlZb_QKw8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cVb8J69E33o
PFC admin: Please embed the entry @60. Don’t know how to do it myself. Thanks.
Magik, your Mokhsh guys are quite talented and know their skill very well. They have captured the ethos of the scenes and elevated each frame with their music. You and moksh show their maturity when the beats dont start till anupam kher gives the whistle and the casino ball rolling sound reverberates when the sun sets and the title Sankat City rises.
Pankaj bhai, I have seen many a movies, which have held their promos like till last week of film’s release and have suffered. Sankat City deserves a month long promotion, before the film releases. I have seen the trailer on tv just once and believe me, it had no impact. It will be big, if Anupam Kher gives an interview for promoting the movie, if Kay kay appears on radio with Jaggu and Tarana and holds a sankat solving contest. Or better still why dont the movie makers hold some sort of sankat solving contest, with answers being sent by sms. The revenues from sms itself would be awesome, apart from generating interest about the movie.
here is my entry for the competetion
oops…the link
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WbCMrhfbv_o
one more…slightly different
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OjTWfSzMpB0
this is my entry http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Sq43dhSqlA
My bad Pankaj. We’d closed the comments section after the closing date. In case you’ve missed the winner announcement here’s the link on Pankaj’s other post
http://passionforcinema.com/sankat-city-reprise/#comment-387778
We would like to thank all those who participated in the ‘Band Bajao Contest’ – Chaitanya, Anand, Arunbrk, Sameer, Shivdas, Vaibhav, Moksh & Magik, Nikhil, VRS, Manan, Venkat, Rajan… thank you all for your efforts. It was difficult to arrive at a winner. In our opinion, Arunbrk’s track came closest to capturing the spirit of the film.
Congratulations Arun. Please get in touch with us at sankatcity@gmail.com so that we can take it on from there.
Cheers!
congrats arun! cheers!
@Pankaj-Thank you Pankaj ji
Cheers to Harvest Moon films ;)
Thanks to all, for all your appreciative words. As some one said, When the team works, the dream works!
@ Magik- Thank You.!!