Your vids on the Watchmen
15/05/2008 . Source: Jessica Martin 
Would be sci-fi producers, get your videocams out now. In shades of the RoboCop film, Zack Snyder is offering home movie-making fans the chance to create Veidt Enterprises TV commercials that could end up in Warner's Watchmen feature film scheduled to be released in theaters on March 6th 2009. This is some seminal comicbook fantasy-SF parallel reality action from Alan Moore, and we'll buy that for a Dollar! Buy Watchmen in the USA - or Buy Watchmen in the UK  To get started, download the standard definition and/or high definition assets from the URLs below, and then shoot your own original TV commercial that advertises one of the products from the world of the Watchmen.
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 (as owned by golden-haired superhero industrialist Veidt), and you can download the product logos for your use as well.
Make your TV commercial in NTSC standard definition (720x486) or higher resolution, upload it, and then others can vote on your work. The contest ends on June 2nd 2008. The 40 finalists will win signed posters from Zack Snyder. The top five finalists from user votes will win High-Definition Canon Vixia HG10 camcorders. Up to 20 of Zack's favorite finalists will win $1,000.00, and have a chance to be included in the Watchmen feature film.
The Watchmen film is set in an alternate 1985 America in which Nixon is President for life and 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.
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