Many DiY-Filmmakers have likely heard of Comedy Central’s online comedy video site Atom.com. With video content provided by big name comedians like Kenan Thompson and Andy Dick, Atom.com is far from being an internet secret.

However, Atom.com prides itself in blending mainstream and indie media. One aspect that highlights this point may also be particularly useful to the DiY-Filmmaker, and that aspect is Atom’s World Famous Cash-Money Internet Comedy Tournament. The rules are simple, and best described by the site itself:

WHAT IS THE TOURNAMENT? The Tournament is a weekly competition beginning April 19, 2010 celebrating the funniest and most popular original comedy videos recently uploaded to Atom.com (“Atom”).

HOW DOES ONE ENTER THE TOURNAMENT? Entering the Tournament is simple. Just upload an original comedy video to Atom.com and in the process, agree to our User Content Submission Agreement, Terms of Use, and these Official Rules. Video specifications including video formats and file size limits are communicated during the upload process.

Readers of this blog know we aren’t the type to just tell you about an online comedy video tournament for no reason. What makes Atom’s World Famous Cash-Money Internet Comedy Tournament so great is not the prizes (though the prizes are kinda sweet), the real value of this tournament is the Creator’s Kit that Atom.com provides for contest participants.

Homemade Jib-Arm not included in Kit.

In this kit you will find a great fourm about the tournament, a short list of web resources for production, and best of all, a list of dozens of “free” production music provided exclusively for use in this contest. You read that right, Atom.com provides free production music to use in project submitted to their tournament. And this isn’t some crappy recycled loops like you get from a royalty-free music DVD, these are professionally made music trackes composed by Matt Messina, the composer of Juno and other films.

I entered the contest a year or 2 ago, not because I wanted to win anything (which I didn’t), but because I wanted to use the provided music to see what I could come up with. It turned out awful, but the music was perfect! So, I post my contribution here with the request that someone, anyone, make something better and link it in a comment at the bottom of this post.