Submission for VJ commission

[nic no name]

London based visual production company is looking for Vjs (any experience)
to commission (paid) for main UK upcoming summer festival.
The artist/Vj will have the chance to perform at a main event with
mainstream nationals and internationals Djs and live music acts.
To be commissioned the participant (Vj) must sent a max of two video/audio
mixed clips of 30seconds each at his own taste/style choice or a link to a
web site portfolio/my space page (30 sec qtime clip at 320x240.Codec to use:
Sorenson Video 3, H264 or photo jpeg codec at ?best quality? setting).
Upon receiving the submitted video/portfolio, member of Frolic production
will invite the eventual chosen artist to perform a 1 hour Vj set (non paid-
but +1 on free guest list) at the SE1 Club on the 3 of February 2007
during a club night event.

Club night music style: techno and progressive trance.
Interested also in down-tempo chill out mix.
please send submission to: nic@frolicproductions.com (http://email.powweb.com/sqmail/src/compose.php?send_to=enquiries%40frolicproductions. com)

many thanks Nic

[Motionreactor]

Just to clarify, not for me but for others. The club night is a non-paid trial run for selection for the paying summer festival?

[devonmiles]

30 seconds... thats not even the hookline of an average techno track. let alone progressive trance.

[SteveG]

I email'd nic last night and received a better explanation on his idea's and side of things. I've highlighted the 30 sec thing and the fact it's outragous to expect VJ's to perform at an event large enough to be held in the SEOne, unpaid.

Hopefully Nic will reply to this here and post the explanation I received from him. I feel it should come from him in full, however, in short he did not expect VJ's outside of London to be applying, the night will have other paid VJ's working, who have been booked and he will consider travel expenses for any VJ who is chosen. In addition he will request showreels should he think the 30sec clips are what he's after.

The festival was not named.

Lets see ;)

[nic no name]

Ok.

Lets try again.

Sorry if I have given the wrong impression.
We are looking for vjs to perform at the 070707 Electronic Music Festival (www.antiworld070707.com). It is a paid gig. It will consists of six stages of psytrance, hard dance, techno, breaks, progressive, and chill out. We are currently looking at what styles of visuals would suit the different styles of music.
When I said 2 x30 seconds clips what I meant is something short, effective and representative of your style, because as much as we would love to, we are not be able to look at 100s of showreels.
So anything that represents your work succinctly: clips, or via website links etc. etc.
Once we have seen something that we think might work on one of the stages we will then ask for a showreel to get a fuller idea of your work.
The 3rd of feb is just a way to meet and have a beer - we have already covered all VJ slots but if you would like to bring a laptop we will obviously not say no to an hour of you playing if there is room (depends on how many people would turn up).
Unfortunately we would not be able to pay anybody for this one but we would be able to offer guest list.

I hope this would clear any misunderstanding and I am looking forward to seeing your work and meeting some of you soon.

Thanks Nic

[johnnylocust]

we are not be able to look at 100s of showreels

You wuss :violin:

[fata alex]

so is the the festival position only open to london based vjs, or to everyone?

[cat]

There are no VJ's outside of London!

[SteveG]

:lol: ......:bullshit:

[deepvisual]

he meant decent VJs.....;)

[SteveG]

You cockney's are just so damn funny :biggrin: Must run got to pick up my whistle and flute from the cleaners :lol2:

[nic no name]

Ok we realise this 30sec idea was a stupid one. How about keeping it under 10min if poss? Sorry for been a wuss johnnylocust but recently, we've been receiving showreels that are 20min to 1hr that we didn’t feel the need to be that long.
We have a number of projects on the go, one of them is our first DVD for our record label (frolic productions, find samples on
I Tune podcast by searching frolicproductions) which has been a real hard one for us but we’re now very happy with the result.
In the next few weeks we will get on to the festival Installation ideas and we would most certainly be happy to look at the material that has been sent.
We would definitely consider artists from UK and Europe; as much as we would love to, we doubt we could afford to bring people from outside of Europe but if you’re already here get in touch.
Our address here is:

Frolic AV LTD
104 Downham Road
London N1 5BE
UK

Many thanks
Nic

[SteveG]

Sounds good now:)

[deepvisual]

Sounds good now:)


yeah but you'll have to dress like Chas and Dave,say Cor Blimey Guvnor and be able to sing knees up mother brown or you won't stand a chance...

[SteveG]

Awright Guv...keep yer air on! keep yer air on! :)......do I pass? Invite a Jock down the Smoke and prepare for some real action...:Smoking:...Oh! the dog and bones goin awf Guv and the trouble and strife aint here..."runs of to answer the telephone whistling "Knees up mother brown, knees up mother brown....dum de da da dum de da da knees up mother brown" :D

[SteveG]

ps

I allready dress like Chas and Dave :nod:

[leolodreamland]

that figures... when they played the big chill a couple of years ago it was wall to wall brummies in there. me included may i add.
but no-one believes me to this day that it wasn't the original dave, or was it chas?

[sleepytom]

My favourite Chas and Dave fact is that they are the musicians on "My name is" by Eminem..

strange but true :) (and there a lot more talented than dildo)

[vj_jasper]

i like the quote of the manager of "Soft Machine" back in the 70's ... (upon entering a room) ... "Alright alright whats it all about then"
hmmm that might be off topic.