It's Webby season.. vote for us!

I’m very excited to announce that another short I scored for CollegeHumor is up for a Webby Award (considered the “Oscar” of the internet). We’re in a tough battle against a slew of celebrities (Steve Carrell, Zach Galifianakis, Justin Bieber to name a few) You can vote for “Grammar Nazis” by clicking HERE.

Sam Reich directed, Vince Peone and Josh Ruben starred. Oh, and hey! My friends at Gloo Studios handled VFX- you might remember their amazing visual work on our winning Pixar Intro Parody last year. Kudos to everyone involved, though- I think it’s one of CH’s best.



Here’s my original write-up on the project from May of last year:

I had a fun time scoring this pitch perfect Inglorious Basterds Parody. I even play a bit of accordion for the intro (a la the Nick Perito piece in the real film) over a whopping 3 chords by regular session player Max Crowe. For the rest of the score we decided on subtle tension building, with a big swell at the end.

I’m in total awe of Josh and Vince’s acting in this one.

Last but not least, huge congrats to my friends Jonathon Grimm and Giancarlo Fiorentini for their nomimation. You can see and vote for “Facebook Ruins Job Interview” here.

p.s. CH has another nomination for Girls are Bad at Sound Effects. Yeah!

Carpe Millenium in the 2010 Director's Circle

Above is a sneak-preview of the 15-minute film Carpe Millennium by the very talented writer/director Eric Bednarowicz. It involves a guy trying to lose his virginity on the eve of the year 2000 by telling increasingly bold lies about knowing a celebrity. I had a lot of fun scoring it last year.

Eric recently informed me the film has been accepted into the 2010 Director’s Circle.. Carpe being one of only 32 narrative shorts selected from 2500 entries from 40 countries… not bad!



It’s also had a lot of other festival activity- the full list as of this posting:

• Winner: The 2010 Accolade Film Award
• Winner: The Golden Kahuna Award For Excellence In Filmmaking (2010 Honolulu Film Festival)
• Winner: The Silver Ace Award (2010 Las Vegas Film Festival)
• Official Selection:  The Los Angeles United Film Festival
• Official Selection:  The Chicago International Reel Short Film Festival
• Official Selection:  The Hoboken International Film Festival
• Official Selection:  The Charleston International Film Festival
• Official Selection:  The Geneva Film Festival
• Official Selection:  The Alabama International Film Festival
• Official Selection:  The Chicago United Film Festival
• Official Selection:  The Riverside International Film Festival
• Official Selection:  The Reality Bytes Independent Film Festival
• Honorable Mention:  The National Undergraduate Film Festival

Whew.. kudos to Eric and the rest of our team!



The score was a nice challenge. Much of my job was to enhance the lead character’s neurosis.  I used various light percussion for this, including the sound of condom wrappers tearing and the SMACK of a condom being stretched and let go… a 3AM idea I’m pretty happy about. Anything for the perfect score!

Check out carpemillenniumfilm.com for more info - you can also read Eric’s interview at hollywoodchicago.com.

HollywoodChicago.com interview

In anticipation of today’s Webby Awards ceremony in NYC, I was interviewed by HollywoodChicago:

CHICAGO – Carl Sondrol is on a huge winning streak. The musician, composer and soundtrack scorer for CollegeHumor.com is a vital part of the Webby Award winning shorts “Web Site Story” and “Pixar Intro Parody.” His work has also expanded into television, short films and feature films.

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Webby Awards: Victory!

              

I’m very excited to announce that Pixar Intro Parody has won both the Webby AND the People’s Voice awards for Best Animation.  Furthermore, Web Site Story has garnered the People’s Voice Award for Best Comedy Short.   Thank you so much for voting, everyone!!





Also, high five to all at CollegeHumor who worked on the above , and to Jake and Amir for winning the Comedy Long Form/Series People’s Voice!

Only 2 days left for Webby Voting

If you can spare a few minutes, I (and my friends at CollegeHumor) would really appreciate your vote in this year’s Webby awards. They are the most prestigious awards in internet media, and we would be ecstatic to win.

Click here to sign up or follow the direct links below:

Web Site Story (for which I produced the music) is in a tight race (screenshot below) with The Onion for best writing, and has a lead in the best comedy short category as well.

Pixar Intro Parody (which I sound designed & scored) is utterly dominating the animation category.

p. s. Here’s a very cool write-up by Mike Ritchie about the experience of creating the Pixar animation.

Webby Awards

Two projects I did for CollegeHumor last year are up for Webby awards. They are:

Pixar Intro Parody (Best Animation)Web Site Story (Best Short, Best Writing)CollegeHumor is up for 6 total per Sam Reich’s blog. Kudos to CH!

By the way, the incredible animation work on Pixar is by Mike Ritchie of Gloo Studios- I’ve gotta say, sound designing and scoring is a real treat when you’re working on something so well-done!  The amount of detail in the visuals is astounding.

In case you haven’t seen these viral video gems, here they are. Fingers crossed!