Defunctland is currently working on a video about the packaging of the American birthday, and we need your help!
If you have any photos or video from any of your childhood birthday parties (American or not) and don’t mind them being featured in a documentary about birthdays, we would love for you to send them in!
We are specifically looking for:
– Birthdays from 10 or more years ago
– Children’s birthday parties (especially if themed)
– Birthdays at event centers (Chuck E. Cheese, Discovery Zone, McDonald’s, etc.)
– Non-iPhone/smartphone images and videos
Note: If your photos or videos do not meet one or more of the above criteria, that is no problem. We will still archive and possibly incorporate them!
Here’s how to send us your photos/videos:
1. Email birthdays@defunctland.com with the media attached.
2. Provide your preferred credit in the body of the email (credits will be listed at the end of the video, not in a lower-thirds)
Before you send, please read carefully:
By submitting photos and/or videos to Defunctland for this project, you confirm that:
- You have the right to submit this media. You took the photos and/or videos yourself, or you were given the media by someone who did (like a parent), and you’re not knowingly submitting anything you don’t have a reasonable claim to share and authorize the use of.
- You grant Defunctland a non-exclusive, royalty-free, worldwide license to use, display, reproduce, and distribute the submitted media in connection with this documentary on any platform or medium (including but not limited to YouTube, film festivals, theatrical, streaming, and physical releases), in perpetuity.
- You are the primary subject of the submitted media (i.e., the birthday person depicted is you).
Our Assurances to You
- Your submitted media will only ever be used in connection with this specific Defunctland documentary (tentatively titled This Building is for Birthdays). It will not be sold, licensed to third parties, or used in any unrelated project, on Defunctland or otherwise.
- If the project is never completed, your media will not be published or distributed in any alternative form.
Two More Notes
- Submitting your media does not guarantee it will appear in the final project. We understand this might be disappointing, but every addition to our archive will help us in telling a better story.
- We are envisioning this project to begin its life outside of the Defunctland YouTube channel, hopefully in a large format (festival or theater run). While we think this will eventually become a main channel upload, its early life may take a different course (unless it’s really bad and no one wants to watch it).