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CITIZENS FOR GLOBAL SOLUTIONS MULTIMEDIA CONTEST

Citizens for Global Solutions is once again land a foe for artists, webmasters, striking designers, poets, video artists as well as beautiful activists who have been meddlesome in formulating a small singular digital art upon a Web!

This year’s thesis is: “Choose Your Global Solution”. The tip contenders will be published upon a website as well as a winners will get cold tough cash!

ABOUT THE ‘CHOOSE YOUR GLOBAL SOLUTION’ THEME:

Did we ever review those interactive books when we were little, called CHOOSE YOUR OWN ADVENTURE, where YOU, a reader, insincere a role of a categorical impression as well as a story was told in second-person (i.e. “You travel in to a cavern as well as find a value chest…”)? Those stories let we have choices any so mostly about where to go or what to do subsequent until we done it to a single of multiform probable endings.

Same concept, formula brand brand new spin.

The elementary thought is called Interactive storytelling. It’s essentially been around for a prolonged time. All interactive novella has a integrate of commonalities: 1) The stories or games contingency bend as well as 2) a viewer/player gets to have choices.

That’s it. That’s a concept.

Now for a spin:

We’re asking YOU to emanate a acquiescence for this foe where YOUR VIEWER gets to
make choices about GLOBAL ISSUES.

CONTEST FORMAT (What to emanate for this contest)

CONTEST FORMAT: This is a many initial foe to date since we have been withdrawal a format utterly up to you!

If we have been a video artist, emanate your video in segments so that a spectator can select where a story should go.
If we have been a producer or a rapper, mangle your spoken-word square in to tools to give a listener a preference about a subsequent verses.
If we have been a superstar-code-monkey, emanate an interactive website or a web-module with buttons as well as re-direct pages to discuss it your tale.
If we have been a Flash movie or diversion animator…um, we substantially already know what to do since Flash animators have been severely tough core (p.s. YES – we ARE authorised to steal peep formula as well as movement book to your heart’s calm as prolonged as a ensuing movie or diversion is YOURS as well as does not transgress upon a rights of any a single else).
If we have been a writer, friend up with a striking artist to give your on-line story a small picture pizazzz (yep, that’s a word…..our contest, a rules).
If we have been a digital artist in a format we haven’t mentioned, it’s since we have been not scarcely as cold as we as well as a smarts have been still handling in chronicle 1.0, though we entice we to warn us with your creation!

In researching upon a web to hope for for this project, we found that interactive story-telling can get utterly complex. But it doesn’t have to. THAT’s all up to YOU!

A elementary account competence usually have a integrate of intersections. If mapped out, it could demeanour something similar to this:

If this sort of story-telling is formula formula brand brand new to we as well as we need a small assistance wise your ideas in to this contest, feel giveaway to hit us: contest[at]globalsolutions.org

GLOBAL ISSUES CONTENT

How to Choose Your Topic:

At Citizens for Global Solutions we work upon interest of A LOT of issues. All of a issues have a single thing in common: they regard a total world. We cover chief weapons, meridian change, a rights of women, fight crimes, await for a United Nations, tellurian rights, as well as peacekeeping to name a few. Don’t go crazy! Pick ONE or TWO of these or pick tellurian issues, review about them, as well as work them in to your adventure.

Make your categorical impression interesting. He or She could be creation choices upon these issues from a standpoint of a universe leader, a student, or even an visitor – it’s all up to you!

Do not bashful divided from regulating humor. Do not bashful divided from sarcasm. Or, if we prefer, don’t be fearful to be really serious. Don’t worry! If we have an engaging idea, though have been stranded upon something, we can assistance — only dump us a line!

The resources upon any of these issues have been most endless- we work full time to keep lane of all of them. We don’t design we to go in to good detail, though we design we to sense a small about a issues that we speak about in your story. Our website has minute pages upon all of a issues.

To get we started, take a demeanour during these web links:

Nuclear weapons

1. CGS’s Nuclear Weapons Page

2. Facts about U.S. chief weapons

3. Arms Control

Women’s Rights

1. CGS’s Women’s Rights Page

2. International Violence Against Women

3. The U.N. Women’s Treaty

Human Rights

1. CGS’s Human Rights Page

2. The Work of Human Rights Watch

3. The Work of Amnesty International

Climate Change

1. CGS’s Climate Change Page

1. Building a tolerable universe

2. The Copenhagen Conference

International Peacekeeping

1. CGS’s Peacekeeping Page

2. Benefits of Investing in U.N. Peacekeeping

3. Refugees International’s Work upon Peacekeeping

The United Nations

1. CGS’s United Nations Page

2. The Work of a United Nations Foundation

3. The United Nations Home Page

Crimes Against Humanity

1. CGS’s International Criminal Court Page

2. Human Rights First’s Crimes Against Humanity Page

3. The International Criminal Court

OTHER GLOBAL ISSUES:

Start here: www.globalissues.org

CONTEST RULES

Please review by ALL of a rules…we’ll try not to harm your brain as well much:

ELIGIBILITY: The Citizens for Global Solutions’ 2009 Multimedia Contest (the “Contest”) is open to:
- All people, U.S. as well as Non-U.S. residents alike; Non-U.S. contestants will be theme to a thirty per cent rebate in any awarded esteem income as compulsory by germane U.S. taxation law. Any entrant underneath eighteen years of age contingency have his or her entrance co-signed by an certified primogenitor or guardian.
- All entrants contingency have Internet access, an Email residence as well as be a purebred member in sequence to competition in a Contest. Registration is accessible here: http://multimedia.globalsolutions.org/2009#
ORIGINALITY: All entries contingency be strange pieces that do not transgress upon a work of any third party. Entrants contingency own all rights to his/her submission, but reduction of 3rd celebration copyrights in any combined content, recordings, lyrics as well as performances contained in a submission. In pick words, give us something new, as well as don’t slice off someone else’s work! The make make make make make make make use of of of of of of of of copyrighted element will automatically invalidate your entry.Entries might enclose low-pitched accompaniment. However, a low-pitched member and/or outcome of any video entrance contingency be: royalty-free song or in a open domain or wholly strange (created as well as achieved by you). Google “royalty giveaway music” as well as we will be means to entrance all kinds of websites that suggest song that is giveaway as well as authorised to use, such as: http://incompetech.com/m/c/royalty-free/ Flash movies/games, websites, as well as pick code-based entries might enclose non-proprietary 3rd celebration source code, movement script, html, integrated height modules, as well as pick web-development objects as prolonged as they have been “open-source” or openly as well as publically distributed, as well as as prolonged as a entrant has mutated their acquiescence to paint an strange customized entry.#
SUBMISSION RELEASE: All submissions contingency be accessible to Citizens for Global Solutions for total use, in total or in part, for any role (including website graduation of destiny Multimedia Contests, destiny DVD distribution, tutorial use, movie festivals, as well as melodramatic distribution) but presentation or remuneration over a money prizes since during a hold up of a Contest.#
FORMAT & TECHNICAL REQUIREMENTS: Entries in this foe will NOT be singular to specific record types. However a limit record distance for any audio or video record acquiescence is 100MB.You contingency embody a following report ocular during a commencement of your entry:
- Your name as well as names of all group members if operative in a group
- The Contest Title – “Citizens for Global Solutions – Multimedia Contest 2009”
- Your Entry Title
- The Citizens for Global Solutions Logo:
  - Dowload a web-ready trademark (JPG): http://globalsolutions.org/logo/Logo.jpg
  - Dowload a web-ready trademark (GIF): http://globalsolutions.org/logo/Logo.gif
  - Download a High Res trademark (EPS): http://globalsolutions.org/logo/Logo.eps
  - Download trademark upon black credentials (JPG): http://globalsolutions.org/logo/logo_on_black.jpg
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OFFENSIVE CONTENT: Submissions contingency not enclose secular and/or eremite slurs as well as contingency not foster a imagery of earthy assault or passionate violence. In conditions of pick language, we here during a inhabitant bureau do not await censorship; however, anything that we post upon a website is starting to be seen by all of a members as well as thousands, if not millions of pick people. So, we ask we to delicately cruise a denunciation we use. Citizens for Global Solutions pot a right to invalidate any entrance that is deemed overly offensive, that is theme to a perspective of staff during a inhabitant office. If you’re not sure, ask us during contest[at]globalsolutions.org

IMPORTANT CONTEST DATES:

September 21st: Contest Begins

December 1st: Submission Deadline

December 17th: Winners Announced

CASH PRIZES

The 2009 contest’s First, Second as well as Third Place winners will be dynamic by a judging row (judging row bios entrance soon).

The 2009 People’s Choice Award will be dynamic by spectator choosing by casting votes upon this website.

The money endowment amounts will be as follows:

1st Place Award: $2,000

2nd Place Award: $1,000

3rd Place Award: $500

People’s Choice Award: $500

HOW TO SUBMIT YOUR ENTRY

No make a difference what format we have combined your entry, we will be means to make make make make make make make use of of of of of of of a on-line acquiescence form to contention your entry.

+ CLICK HERE TO USE OUR ONLINE SUBMISSION FORM

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