So CMT has created their Music City Madness contest to show off unsigned musician’s work.  So I shot and edited a video of The Big Daddy Band (the house band at the bar where I work) and submitted it on DVD.  After that they were to select the “top” 64 videos to be posted to CMT.com/loaded and then it was going to go through a voting process to find a grand prize winner.

So during the whole shoot we were very careful about getting trademarks in the video, getting likeness release forms, and following the posted rules to the T.  Well the top 64 have since been selected and we didn’t make the cut.  Usually I’m not a sore loser, but when the contest is unfair it really starts to get under your skin.  According to the rules you can’t use trademarks, the video has to be under 5 minutes.  Many of the videos in the top 64 have both trademarks and are too long.  A lot of the video that didn’t make it followed the rules closely.

So needless to say we’ll be shopping the video around ourselves.  Feel free to watch it and let me know what you think.