The Centre for Internet & Society and Hivos Knowledge Programme announce the Everyday Digital Native (Digital AlterNatives) Video Contest. Prize of EUR 500 will be awarded to each of top 10 video finalists.
Selection Process:
- Round 1: Send in your proposal via https://www.research.net/s/BZXQPHL by midnight, 26 January 2012
- Round 2: The juries will shortlist 25 ideas. Shortlist deadline: 10 February 2012
- Round 3: 25 shortlisted participants send in their final videos on 10 March, 2012
- Round 4: Public Votes for their Top 10 favorite videos. Voting closes: 08 April 2012
- Round 5: Jury Selects Top 2 Winners: 20 April 2012
Submission Guidelines:
- Use this Online Application Form to submit your proposals
- Participants wishing to submit a sketch(es), storyboard, collage or short video narration at the proposal stage can send in their submissions to digitalnatives@cis-india.org. Please ensure your submission is accompanied by a brief explanatory write-up.
- For team / group submissions, it is enough for one team member to fill the online form / submit proposal via email on behalf of the team.
- The Digital AlterNatives with a Cause books are the inspiration for this video contest. You can use any of the essays as a basis for your video.
- File type: AVI, MP4 formats
- Language: Please send proposals / fill the online form in English. The final videos can be in any language, with English subtitles.
- Title: Each proposal should feature a tentative title, short description of what the video will feature (characterization, storyline) and the theme and idea behind the video.
- Genre: Do mention the style of execution / genre: animation, claymation, stick drawings stitched together in Movie Maker, paper art on video, documentary, short film, promotional message, and other styles of digital movie making.
- Contact Details: Be sure to include your name and contact email, your city of residence and a two-liner on what you do to give us a perspective on your video.
- Limit your written proposals to 350-500 words, although there’s no word limit strictly.
- Your video shouldn’t exceed 30 minutes in run time, so fine-tune your ideas and storyboard accordingly
- Every applicant is allowed only one proposal. No multiple story submissions.
- Applicants can work individually or in a pair or a group. Each group will be permitted one entry submission.
- All submissions must be original and clearly attributed to the relevant copyright holder. If referenced from third-party sources or if work is licensed under Creative Commons.
Submission of proposal will be through online Application form by 26 January, 2012.
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