Monday, August 24, 2009
Shane Reynolds wants your help as he tries to bring an MTV Moonman award to the University of Kansas.
Reynolds, Chatham, Ill., freshman, was recently nominated for an MTV Music Video Award in the category of “Best Performance in a Pepsi Rock Band Video.”
Reynolds was nominated for a video he and nine of his high school friends submitted to a contest sponsored by Pepsi and the makers of the video game Rock Band.
Their video was chosen as one of five finalists from more than 650 videos submitted during the contest. They are now up against finalists from Alabama, New York, Texas and Virginia.
Students can view the video and vote by going to pepsirockband.com After registering, voters can submit up to 10 votes per day. Voting continues through next Tuesday. Reynolds’ video is the one performed by the group “Nerds in Disguise.”
If their video wins, Reynolds and his friends will each be awarded with a plane ticket to New York and a hotel room so they can accept their Moonman awards during the MTV Music Video Awards, which will take place at 8 p.m. Sept. 13 at Radio City Music Hall.
Reynolds said he hoped his fellow students would vote for his video so he could bring a Moonman to the University.
“I started writing about the contest on my dorm’s message boards to spread the word, but we’re probably going to need some more help,” Reynolds said. “Everybody I know who’s seen it has really liked the video.”
Contest rules said all video submissions had to incorporate both Pepsi and Rock Band products, could have no more than 10 people shown and could only feature music from a preapproved list of songs. Reynolds said he and his friends knew from the beginning they wanted to incorporate a college party in their video. However, they were forced to get creative to make their video look realistic within the contest rules.
“The problem is you can’t have a party with only 10 people, so we decided to double each of us up to make it look like there were actually 20 people,” Reynolds said.
The group had each person play two characters: a nerd and a rock star. The video features an unusual type of party, where people from two different walks of life come together to share a good time.
The party-goers can be seen performing Lit’s “My Own Worst Enemy” and downing plenty of Pepsi in keg-party fashion.
Reynolds said the main message of the video was there could be unity between two cliques of different people, such as rock stars and nerds.
In some of Reynolds’ more memorable scenes from the video, he pours soda over his head and rides a child’s bicycle into a pool.
Brian Harmon, Omaha, Neb., freshman, lives near Reynolds in McCollum Hall and has been voting for the video multiple times every day.
“It would be the coolest thing ever if he won, so we’ve been telling everybody about it.” Harmon said.
Harmon said he knew other students who had been voting for the video.
As far as plans for the Moonman award, Reynolds said he planned to bring it back to Lawrence and keep it in his dorm room.
“I’ll polish it up and put it in a trophy case, that’s for sure,” Reynolds said.
Reynolds said his friends had initially worried there would be too many good submissions for them to win the contest, but decided to enter it anyway.
“The broadcasting teacher just came to us and said, ‘You’re very talented at what you do and there’s a contest coming up and I think you have a good shot at winning it,’” Reynolds said.
The judges for MTV agreed. Now it’s time to see whether the rest of the country does as well.
— — Edited by Abbey Strusz
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