Ten recent Chatham Glenwood High School graduates walked down the red carpet of the MTV Video Music Awards ceremony Sunday to claim their Moonman trophy after winning the Pepsi Rock Band Music Video Contest.The video, “Nerds in Disguise,” is set to the song “My Own Worst Enemy” by Lit. It shows a house party that gets out of control as guests slam back Pepsi products. The video’s actors — except for co-producer Matt Hartzler, who portrays a pizza deliveryman —play dual roles of math nerds and hardcore rockers.
Hartzler was interviewed via text message from the ceremony Sunday evening.
“It’s pretty surreal at this point,” he texted. “It hasn’t really hit any of us yet. I think once we get back to school, and we’ve all got our Moonmans, then the feeling will settle in.”
“We’re just trying to live in the moment right now.”
The 10 collaborators learned they won about two weeks before the video music awards, but they had to keep quiet until it was announced Sunday, Hartzler said, because MTV “wanted to build up the tension.”
They attended a closed rehearsal before the performance and walked the red carpet about 5:30 p.m., he said. Although all 10 attended the ceremony, four were allowed to sit on the main floor with the artists.
Pepsi flew nine of the participants from eight different campuses across the country to New York City on Tuesday for taping.
Hartzler, who started school at Amherst College in Massachusetts this week, couldn’t get permission from the college to take off for the week. Pepsi provided him a driver and car, traveling about three and a half hours each way on Tuesday, when part of the ceremony was taped. The other nine students have been in New York all week.
Pepsi also provided the driver and car for Hartzler to go back to school this morning.
Hartzler said he was excited about seeing Jay-Z’s performance, texting, “I’ve been listening to his new album (The Blueprint 3) non-stop since it came out.”
THE STATE JOURNAL-REGISTER
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