Mike and Marty, two of our main characters, as they appear in our short film The Upload. Yours can star anyone below.
E2 Video Challenge
Pick any of our main characters, make a video about them, and put it up. As long as it is at least a 7 out of 10 for quality, we send you 125P. Simple as that.
Mike and Marty, two of our main characters, as they appear in our short film The Upload. Yours can star anyone below.
Going forward, we want a lot more videos and a lot more content at E2. More stories, more shorts, more fun things to watch, all built around the characters and the world we are growing together.
We would love to tell more stories about the E2 Characters! Every character below has far more stories in them than we could ever film on our own. That is exactly why we are asking you: your video could be the next E2 Character story we get to tell.
So this is an open invitation, and honestly, a bit of a talent search. We want to see who is really creative. Who can take a character, come up with an idea, and actually finish something good? The people who shine here are the people who can help us grow this community, and there will be more to do, bigger projects, and more rewards for the creators who keep showing up with great work.
Do not wait for the perfect idea. Pick a character you love, make something, and show us what you have got.
These are our main characters. Your video can star one of them, a pair of them, or a whole group, as long as they are clearly the heart of it. Tap a face to meet them properly, check their look and personality, and use their pictures as reference for your video.
That is not the whole cast. Anyone on our main Characters page counts, including Mike and Marty together, the pair from The Upload. If a character is a main character there, they are fair game here.
Before you make yours, go and look around. Everything you need is already up: our best videos to learn from, the characters to star in yours, and story ideas you can take and run with:
You can see all of our best videos here on our Studio site: the films we are proudest of, all in one place. Watch a few first, see the level we are aiming for, then go and make yours.
Watch our best videos → Meet themWe would love to tell more stories about the E2 Characters, and you can see them all here: what they look like, who they are, and what makes each one them. Pick yours there and use their pictures as your reference.
See the characters → Story ideasAnd here are some of our story ideas! Our Studio Desk has story ideas and videos that are in progress right now: the stories being dreamed up, storyboarded, and built. Browse the ideas, take one and run with it, or let one spark an idea of your own.
Get story ideas at the Desk → Finished filmsGo to our YouTube channel, E2 Life, to see our completed videos: Sally Welcomes You to E2, Dinesh in the Park, Sam's Late Night Vlog, Short Bus, and more. That is the quality bar. Aim for that.
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Mike has a perfect plan. Marty improves it. It nearly goes wrong, and somehow they save it together. It is our most reliable little story engine, and it works in almost any setting. Watch The Upload for the rhythm, then make it your own.
A song with Sally, a late night build with Dinesh, a radio moment with G Love, a lesson with Finn, a design disaster with Henri. If it feels like E2 and the character feels like themselves, you are on the right track.
Choose one main character, or a few, from the Characters page. Get their look and personality right.
Any style and any tool you like. A short, complete, watchable video beats a long, unfinished one every time.
Post your finished video publicly and drop us the link, so everyone can watch it.
If your video hits 7 out of 10 or better, we send you 125P. Good work gets shared, celebrated, and remembered.
We really encourage you to try Google Flow, Google's AI filmmaking tool. It is built for exactly this kind of thing: turning an idea and a character reference into real, cinematic clips you can build a story from, scene by scene.
Flow is a suggestion, not a requirement. Runway, Kling, your phone camera, animation, whatever you make great work with is welcome here.
You do not need perfect. You need pretty good, on purpose, in these five things:
Any character, any setting in E2. Change the names, change the place, make it yours:
Your character has one important day: a gig, a launch, a lesson, a first shift. Everything that can go sideways does, and they get through it in their own way.
Something important goes missing in E2. Your character searches their way, asks the wrong people, and finds it in the last place anyone expected.
Your character has news for the whole community. Rehearsing it goes badly. Saying it for real goes better than anyone planned.
Morning to night with one character. Small moments, one surprise, and a final shot that tells us exactly who they are.
Put two characters together who should not work as a team, Mike and Marty style, and watch them save the day anyway.
Your character wants in: the band, the team, the show, the project. Show us the tryout, the nerves, and the moment it clicks.
How a good E2 video should leave us: smiling, and wanting the next one.
It has to be pretty good. 125P is not automatic for any upload. Your video has to reach at least a 7 out of 10 for quality, as judged by our team using the points above: the right character, a real story or idea, clear picture and sound, real effort, and the E2 spirit.
In short: make something pretty good, about our main characters, and we are happy to pay 125P for it. Make something great, and we will be looking for you for what comes next.
More videos. More characters. More E2.
Make yours, make it good, get your 125P.