Mahalo VLog Idol Viral Videos
First off let me say this: Welcome to my Blog, now get the fuck out!
…and if you’re still with us feel free to read this post, regarding the amazing Mahalo VLog Idol/Bachelon/Mapprentice. For those of you that don’t know what this is, it is a contest to find the next host for the great video podcast known as Mahalo Daily. The search is for a new co-host to host along with Lon Harris and fill in for the now departed (to Tekzilla) Veronica Belmont.
The competition is currently down to the final two contestants, Andrea Rene and Leah D’Emilio. For the final challenge Jason Calacanis assigned each contestant to create a viral video in the spirit of Mahalo. Each contestant had 5 days to complete their video and the first video was released on Monday and featured Andrea Rene in a Guitar Hero Training Video spoof. Today, Tuesday, the release of Leah Demilio’s video, a “Touch My Body” by Mariah Carey music video parody emerged. The two videos have different approaches to the viral video objective and only Leahs seems to actually accomplish the goal. I’m going to breakdown each video into my favorite parts and least favorite parts. I’ll rate each video on three categories: Production Quality, Comedic Value and the ‘Viralness’ of the video.
Andrea Rene- Girl Trains for Guitar Hero
- Production Quality: 3/5 It is obvious that a professional video crew was involved but there are some scenes where the lighting sucks and the angles and camera movement don’t seem to be that great. I am not expecting Movie quality shots, but more a television advertisement or professional internet comedy troupe type quality and this just wasn’t up to that level.
- Comedic Value: 1/5 I did not find this very funny. I thought that the only funny things involved Lon and not Andrea and I believe that comedy is a big part of a podcast, especially a video podcast produced by a company such as Mahalo so I feel this a big hit against Andrea’s effort.
- ‘Viralness’: 2/5 This video lacks the certain flair that makes someone want to watch it multiple times. I watched it once and didn’t have any urge to watch it again other than to check out specific things that other commenters on the video had pointed ou
Leah Demilio- Touch My Body Parody feat. Lon Harris and Leah D’Emilio
- Production Quality: 4/5 I felt that this was lacking in some areas, though I do not feel lighting was one of them. The only real negative things I believe are the camera work during the pool scene and the use of the beginning of the video from the actual original, however this does make it seem a little more professional in some ways. I feel this is a very strong 4/5 very close to the production quality of a television commercial or the like.
- Comedic Value: 4/5 I’ve seen funnier things online but there were just all these great little funny touches, and you realize even more of them as you watch it for the 3rd, 4th and 12th times. I love Lon’s strut and Leah as Princess Leia, and my favorite is Leah sounding like McLovin when she says “Whazzup”
- ‘Viralness’: 4/5 I don’t think this is going to go crazy viral on the internet but if it was to get 500k hits that would not at all surprise me. It has the ability to draw the viewer in to watch it multiple times and just keep them wanting more. I’ve watched it about 15 times so far.
Result: 12-6 Leah wins.
Some people may argue that I’m biased towards Leah due to Andrea being portrayed as vindictive on the Mapprentice but I made my ratings being unbiased. I truly believe that Leah’s video is hands down better. After first seeing it I thought it was just a little better than Andrea’s but as it keeps making me want to watch it over and over again I realize that it is truly monkey tails and lions on trees, above the rest…and just as i’m ending writing this there is some maniac driver on Bristol, driving what sounds like 60-70 around a bunch of roundabouts and drifting…I wouldn’t even do that and I’m certifiably nuts
I’d love to hear what people have to say about my ratings and your thoughts on Mahalo Daily Vlog Idol, I am sad to see it end but am confident that based on the final round task, viral videos, my personal favorite throughout a lot of the competition, Leah D’Emilio will be the victor. Good luck to all involved and I can’t wait to see what else Mahalo Daily has in store.
-Andrew aka The Real Benny Lava