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9th Annual Teen Digital Reel
Showcase & Awards
Entry Guidelines 2005
Entries Due by March 18, 2005
Awards Showcase to be held May 21, 2005
Download an Entry Form
The 9th Annual Teen Digital Reel Showcase & Awards (9TDR) is an independent, teen produced, regional high
school event organized to actively support and encourage creativity,
skill building challenges and high school, digital media arts curriculum.
Youth teams are invited to produce up to 3 minute long computer-made
movies. Our objectives are to develop artistic expression, community
involvement and team building through cutting edge, digital media. We
invite high school age youth with their mentors to produce original,
short, artistic digital movies that address compelling topics within 6 preselected
categories.
Entries must be submitted by March 18, 2005 and exhibited May 21, 2005 at our 9th
Annual Teen Digital Reel Showcase & Awards event, open to the public,
at the Center High School Theater. Tower of Youth lucite awards and
valuable media tools and prizes are given at the 9TDR for the best
produced, original, digital media creations developed by Sacramento
Valley and Sierra Foothill regional high school and high school aged
youth in community programs. All works submitted will be judged by a
panel of distinguished regional professional artists and communication
media experts.
Who is eligible?
Eligibility for entry is only open to youth
enrolled as students in the 6 county, Sacramento Sierra region’s
high schools (Sacramento, Yolo, El Dorado, Placer, Nevada,
San Joaquin) or community, media arts,
programs belonging to the
Sacramento Sierra Digital Arts Studio Partnership. Youth may enter and
produce work from either a school or a community organization but not
both. (Sponsorship may come from any public or private school, youth
organization, community agency or business sponsorship that are formal
members of the Partnership)
• Content Categories •
Entries must be submitted in the one
of the 5 Main Categories below and or the Special Civic Award Category.
1. Perspectives on the
Environment
Are you concerned about the health of the planet?
Perspectives on the Environment will give you the opportunity to speak
out on an issue that will affect humanity for generations to come. Topics
may include, the air we breath, the water we drink, bio-diversity,
endangered species, the effects of commercial development on the natural
landscape, overpopulation, our role as planetary stewards, and any other
topic about our relationship with our natural environment.
2. Public Service Announcement or
Commercial
Highlight a particular social issue, advocate an idea,
promote a business, demonstrate a
technology, advertise a product or offer a service real or imagined.
Demonstrate and market what you feel will bring value to your
people’s lives.
3. The Art of Partnership
Address what cooperation means to you. What does it mean
to live by working creatively with others? Show how partnerships can
bring out the best among people, influence our lives and help us achieve
our goals. Everywhere we look
people combine their talents and abilities to improve our lives, society
and the economy. Partnerships may
include anything such as those in school, community, family, friends,
business and the media arts.
4. Experiencing the Wonder of
Sound and Music
Your audio track, can make or break your media
project. Good sound design -
voice, sound effects, music - all add to the success of dramatizing
visual imagery, creating feeling, understanding and a sense of
beauty. Original audio track and
sound effects offer the most intense challenge to new digital artists.
5. A Short Story
Create and tell a compelling short digital media tale! Story
is the foundation of successful
media producing. Great media makers tell great stories, first and
foremost. Any future in producing
media requires skill in telling a story.
6. The 2005 Special Civic
Category: Beating Stereotypes
Show how we can recognize and overcome stereotypes.
Stereotypes are conscious or unconscious attitudes we hold towards others
that ignore a person’s unique and individual qualities. Stereotypes
always mask the real person and are usually very damaging to both people who
stereotype and those who get stereotyped. How do stereotypes hurt us as
a community? How often do we rely on them to form our images of others?
How often are we surprised when our stereotypes are exposed?
• Digital Technical & Production
Guidelines and Restrictions •
At Least a Two (2) Member Youth
Producer Entry Team Is Required
Each production must be co-produced by at least two named
youth partners with or without an adult mentor. This constitutes the
artistic production “Entry Team” eligible for award recognition.
Other youth participating in production may be named in the entry credits
as supporting the entry team in professional productions.
High Resolution Essential
We urge you to try and create your work in the highest
possible resolution/full screen, given your equipment. In order to have
a full theater screen projected image at the Awards Showcase, the format
for the final file entries should be rendered at 720x480 pixel size or
better.
Each production team may only submit one entry from among
the 5 Main Content Categories. To
insure the widest spread of awards and prizes across the Sacramento
Sierra Partnership members, only one (1) Entry is allowed, per youth
producer team, which must be chosen from, and submitted in, one (1) of
the 5 Main Categories and/or the
Special Civic Category. Each production team may only submit one entry
from among the 5 Content
Categories.
Special Civic Award Category
Entry Privilege
A single or second entry may be submitted in the Special
Civic Category. “Beating Stereotypes”. The Civic Category changes each year to
address a community or social theme that is controversial or calls for
youth attention. It is considered
a “wild” category in that it offers an opportunity for a
production team to produce a second entry work if the team has submitted
an entry in one of the Main
Categories. A single entry into
the Civic Category is also acceptable.
Cash awards are an additional incentive to enter a work in the
Civic Category.
Jury Control Over Category Placement
Youth Producers are asked to carefully select which
Content Category they enter and to make sure that their work accurately
speaks to the form and content of the chosen category described above.
Tower of Youth reserves the right to create a separate animation category
if more than three qualified high scoring animation entries are
submitted in any Main Category or
to reassign any entry if it is more appropriate or may compete more
successfully in a different
category then was selected by the youth entry production team. Any lead youth co-producer can only
enter and win one Main Category
Award and/or the Special Civic Category Award. If a co-producer enters
more than one entry, the Judges will disqualify the less competitive
duplicates.
All Original Everything Required!
Each completed digital movie must include only original
produced graphics, images, animations, music and sound. Images may
include any computer-generated imagery, original digital graphics,
digitally produced or converted sounds or digitized video segments.
The decision to include any copyrighted materials must be
accompanied by formal permission waivers obtained by the producers from
their copyright sources and will loose points in the judging despite such
waivers if non original material is included. The Tower of Youth Annual
TDR Showcase & Awards are videotaped, edited and provided for
broadcast on cable access television and exhibited in venues that are non
commercial and not-for-profit. The Tower of Youth reserves the right to market
the Annual Showcase program, on cassette and DVD, at production cost, to
provide the most widespread dissemination of the event. Any infringement
on copyright is the sole liability of the entry producers.
Mini
DV Entry Format, Complete Entry Form,
and Fee Are Required
All completed entries must be submitted for
judging only on labelled Mini DV Cassettes. We will
not accept VHS, DV8, CD or DVD entry formats. The final digital
media entry production, including any assembled video and audio
components, must be submitted on this mini DV Cassette required format.
Entry team members will be responsible for the required format conversion
needed which can be obtained from among the many programs in the region
able to help generate the mini DV final entries. This facilitates jurying
and provides the best resolution and transfer quality for exhibiting on
the showcase commercial size theater screen and broadcast venues.
• Entry Form, Log, Artist Statement and
Entry Fee •
Entrants must fill out and submit a complete Showcase
Entry Form attached herewith. A written Technical Production Log must be
submitted with the entry form describing in detail the software and
hardware used for the process of production and explaining how the work
was created and where technical applications and image handling were
accomplished for the judges to consider in their determinations analysis.
Include an Artist Statement
A brief artist statement must also be submitted briefly
describing the idea and intention of your work as well as your creative
process.
Entry Fee $15
There will be a $15 entry fee due with each Showcase
Entry. Cash is acceptable. Checks to be made to “Tower of
Youth”. A fee waiver may be granted upon request to Tower of Youth
2 weeks prior to deadline.
(Contact William Bronston at 916/944-0100) All entries are due no
later than March 18, 2005 by 7 p.m..
Up to 3 Minutes Total Length
In order to be considered, all entries must be no shorter
than 30 seconds in length and no longer than exactly three minutes,
including credits. Entries that do not fit within these 30 second - 3
minute (180 seconds) time window will be automatically disqualified.
Tower of Youth Lucite Awards and
Media Prizes
The TOY signature Lucite Awards will be given for the 1st,
2nd and 3rd prize entry youth team pair member winners and the team
mentor in each of the Main and
Civic Award Categories. A Grand Prize will also be awarded to each of the
2 youth co-producers and the mentor representing the single best entry in
the Showcase. A single Award will be presented if the entry is identified
as the product of a production team of more than two members as a whole)
and for the team mentor in each of the 6 Content Categories. In addition,
major state of the art software, hardware and media prizes are provided
by industry sponsors to the members of each winning team at the Award
Ceremony May 21, 2005.
Cash prizes are awarded for the three prizes in the Civic Category - $100 for each of the
1st prize winners, $50 for the 2nd prize and $25 for the 3rd prize. A $100 cash prize for both co-producers
and mentor will be awarded to the Showcase Grand Prize Winner Entry
members .
Any exception to the above guidelines must be request
prior to the entry deadline by contacting TOY at 916-922-0100.
• Training Sessions,
Creation & Production Process •
(see www.towerofyouth.org website for details)
The creative and technical skill challenges of digital
graphic technology are very real. Most youth and teachers will be faced
with a steep learning curve while mastering new software and hardware. A
series of Saturday TOY training Sessions (Theatron) from 9:30 am till
3:00 PM will be organized for
students, parents and mentors, and announced:
January 29 “Overall Production Design” at
Cosumnes River College TV and Media Dept.
Library Building
February 5“Telling Your Story” at UC Davis,
Meyer Hall, Davis
February 26“Sound Design” at CSUS,
Communication Studies Dept., Mendocino Hall
March 5“One to One Professional Consultations for
Entry Producers” (Place to be announced)
Directions to the training sessions can be obtained by
seeing the maps to the sites on the tower of Youth Web site. These
sessions will be open to up to 40 individual each. A $5 youth and $10 per
adult fee will be required which will cover the cost of lunch at each
9:30 am - 3 p.m. day long session.
TOY seeks to
promote, monitor and support learning and the creative process
through producing the 9th Annual
Teen Digital Showcase event. We are very committed, through cooperation
and collaboration, to achieve quality and excellence, and to push everyone
higher in developing their artistry through technology.
• Judging Entries and Awards •
Entries will be judged on the basis of overall content
category message strength, technical production qualities, creativity,
originality and overall impact. Three recognition awards, first second
and third place will be given for each of the 5 Main Categories and 1 Special Civic
Category to each of the two
co-producers and their adult mentor. One Grand Prize Award will be
given for overall best of show. Cash prizes will be made for both the
special Civic Category and the Grand Prize Winners. The Tower of Youth
reserves the right to add additional awards and recognitions at the time
of the showcase event. The decision of the judges will be final. No
mechanism exists for appeal of the judge’s decisions.
Winners will be exhibited and announced at the May 21,
2005 Showcase event at Center High School where the Award and Prize
presentations will occur.
Entry Deadline
All entries for the 9th Annual Teen Digital Showcase
Awards event must be received before 7:00 PM, March 18, 2005 - no
exceptions. Entries received after this time and date, regardless of
postmark will be disqualified.
Send or deliver entries, completed entry form and $15
Entry Fee. (Make Checks payable to TOY)
North Sacramento Address till 3/11 South Sacramento
Address till 3/18
Tower of Youth Linda Roberts
3711 Dell Road 1294 Kennady Lane
Carmichael, CA 95608 Sacramento, CA 95822
(Phone: 916-730-6552) (Phone: 916-441-6066)
Additional delivery sites may be posted on the
www.towerofyouth.org web site closer to the deadline date.
For Additional Information Please
Contact:
William Bronston, MD
Tower of Youth
3711 Dell Road, Carmichael, CA 95608
Day
Answering Phone: 916-922-0100, Fax 916/944-0700, Cell 916/730-6552
email:
drmarat@macnexus.org
web site:
www.towerofyouth.org
www9th Annual Teen Digital Reel
Awards Showcase
Team Entry Form
(1 for each entry - Print Clearly)
Title of Entry:
_______________________________________________________________________________________
Category Number: ____ (#1-
Environment #2-PSA
or Commercial #3-Art
of Partnership #4-Wonder
of Sound/Music #5-Short
Story #6- Special
Civic-Beating Stereotypes)
Media Format: ____ Mini
DV Length ____:____
(Min:Sec) $15 Entry Fee:
____ Check ____ Cash
(If you win your names
will be published in the program and be inscribed on the Award - please
PRINT CLEARLY - Thanks!)
Co-Producer #1 Name or, if you prefer
Production
Team Title:
_______________________________________________________________ Age:
___________
Home Mailing Address:
______________________________________________________________________________
City:____________________________________________________________
CA Zip Code ______________________
Telephone: (_____)
_______________________ E-Mail: ____________________________________________________
Name of Parent(s) or
Guardian(s):
______________________________________________________________________
Co-Producer
2's Name:
_______________________________________________________________ Age:
___________
Home Mailing Address:
______________________________________________________________________________
City:
___________________________________________________________ CA Zip Code ______________________
Telephone: (_____)
_______________________ E-Mail:
____________________________________________________
Name of Parent(s) or
Guardian(s):
______________________________________________________________________
School or
Sponsoring Agency Name:
____________________________________________________________________
Address Street:
_______________________________________________ City:
_____________________ Zip: ________
Mentor Name:
_________________________________________________________ Position:
______________________
Mentor Address Street:
__________________________________________ City: _____________________
Zip: ________
Mentor Phone Day (____) __________________ Evenings
(_____) __________________
E-Mail: _________________
DEADLINE FOR ENTRIES
– MARCH 18, 2005 7:00
PM.... NO EXCEPTIONS!! Contact
TOY early if you need information, assistance meeting the deadline, or
directions. For Info contact: William Bronston, MD
Day Answering Phone:
916/922-0100, Fax 916/944-0700, Cell 916/798-4000.
e-mail: drmarat@macnexus.org Website www.towerofyouth.org
Send or deliver your entry with this entry form
& log and the $15 entry fee to TOY:
TILL MARCH 11TH AFTER MARCH 11 TILL MARCH 18TH
(North Area – Off
Fair Oaks Blvd. Near San Juan)
(South Area – Near S. Land Park & Fruitridge)
9TDR 9TDR
Tower of Youth Linda Roberts
3711 Dell Road 1294 Kennady Lane
Carmichael, CA
95608 Sacramento, CA 95822
(Phone at delivery site:
916/730-6552)
(Phone at site: 916/441-6066)
ENTRY TEAM TECHNICAL PRODUCTION LOG
(Use this form or make your own presentation for
the Judges)
Short Biography of
Producer #1:
Short Biography of
Producer #2:
Artist's Short
Statement About Your Entry:
Description of
Hardware: ____ MAC ____ PC
Processor
speed:
Amount
of RAM:
Storage
media used:
Software used to create
your digital media submission.
Include name of application and version number of software used.
List additional
production team members. Include
ages and roles. (If the piece
wins, the team will be acknowledged during the program, but unfortunately
we do not have the room or resources to list the additional names on the
program or on the Lucite Awards – only the 2 co-producers or
Production Team Name, if you prefer, for the Award of Record.)
Challenges faced, knowledge
gained:
Anything else you would
like to share with the Judges:
(Please use the back of
the page if needed)
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