Enter a contest and appear in ‘Watchmen’
Zack Snyder is offering you the opportunity to create “Veidt Enterprises” TV commercials that could end up in the feature film WATCHMEN, scheduled to be released in cinemas in early 2009.
To get started, download the standard definition and/or high definition assets from the competition site, and then shoot your own original TV commercial that advertises one of the products! Remember, the movie is set in 1985, so TV commercials should be in 4:3 aspect ratio (so it looks like standard TV, not widescreen) and they should be either 15, 30 or 60 seconds in length. The products are all made by “Veidt Enterprises,” and you can download the product logos for your use as well.
The contest has only just been opened up to we Aussies and unfortunately ends on at 5pm GMT on July 28th. Better get your skates on!
The 3 finalists from each country involved in the almost-global contest will win signed stills from Zack Snyder and have a chance to be included in the WATCHMEN feature film itself. The 3 finalists and top 20 runners-up will also receive a WATCHMEN countdown clock and a keyring.
‘Watchmen‘ is a complex, multi-layered mystery adventure, the film is set in an alternate 1985 America in which costumed superheroes are part of the fabric of everyday society, and the “Doomsday Clock” – which charts the USA’s tension with the Soviet Union – is permanently set at five minutes to midnight.
When one of his former colleagues is murdered, the washed-up* but no less determined masked vigilante Rorschach sets out to uncover a plot to kill and discredit all past and present superheroes.
As he reconnects with his former crime-fighting legion –– a ragtag group of retired superheroes, only one of whom has true powers –– Rorschach glimpses a wide-ranging and disturbing conspiracy with links to their shared past and catastrophic consequences for the future. Their mission is to watch over humanity…but who is watching the Watchmen?
* being a washed up superhero seems to be a current Hollywood flavour – see Hancock)
For more information visit the competition site.
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