Total Recut is hosting a contest, and the submission period has already begun. The challenge is to make a vid illustrating what remix culture means to you, what you think it is. To quote the blurb at the site:
Create a short video remix that explains what Remix Culture means to you. Using video footage from any source, including Public Domain and Creative Commons licensed work, we want you to produce a creative, educational
and entertaining video remix that communicates a clear message to a wide audience. The video is to be no shorter than 30 seconds and no longer than 3 minutes in duration.
This contest is being run to promote awareness of remix culture in an educational capacity by encouraging the fair use of a wide variety of content
and also to create a new pool of work that explains what remix culture is to the general public. For more information on fair use, check out these guidelines from the Center for Social Media.
And there are prizes!!
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Your Video Remix...
- must not exceed 3 minutes in length, including credit sequence
- must not be less than 30 seconds in duration
- must reflect the theme: 'What is Remix Culture?
- must remix previously published video footage
- may include your own original footage, typography and effects
- must include a credits sequence at the end attributing all sampled material
- should be licensed with a Creative Commons license, where applicable
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Submission Period Begins
1st May 2008
Deadline for Submission
2nd June 2008
Public Voting Begins
2nd June 2008
Public Voting Ends
16th June 2008
Finalists Announced
16th June 2008
Judging Panel Begins
16th June 2008
Judging Ends
30th June 2008
Winners Announced
1st of July 2008
Total Recut is hosting a Video Remix Challenge over the next two months and we want you to create a short video using the theme: 'What is Remix Culture?' You can you use any footage you can find, including Public Domain and Creative Commons work, but the finished video cannot be longer than 3 minutes or shorter than 30 seconds long.
The prizes include a Laptop computer loaded with video editing and conversion software, a digital camcorder, a digital media player, as well as Special Edition Total Recut T-Shirts, Books, DVDs and CDs. We have an amazing lineup of judges for the contest including Lawrence Lessig, Henry Jenkins, Kembrew McLeod, Pat Aufderheide, JD Lasica, Mark Hosler and Luminosity. You can find out more information at: Total Recut Video Remix Challenge 2008.
Entries will be accepted from May 01, 2008 till June 02, 2008, when public voting will begin. The best 10 videos at the end of the two-week voting period will be put forward into the final, where they will be voted on by the judging panel. The winners will be announced on the 1st of July. So get busy making those videos!
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From last night--
I know. I know. I know. This is totally NOT the time to announce a vid--midnight, middle of the week. Nobody's up. Nobody cares. Nobody'll say anything. I get that. HOWEVER! Look what y'all can wake up to, right? This is what insomnia does to a person, and I had to get this out of my system. I've been mental about this vid idea since the end of S2, and I have started it and trashed it at least five times, chosen at least five different pieces of music. Finally. Finally, I found something that pinged with me all the way through.
I showed pieces of this in progress, including the trashed versions, to about a dozen people, hoping that I wouldn't have to explain anything, because explanations meant failure to me. Tell by showing, baby! Around two weeks ago, I didn't need to explain, so all was copacetic!
My thanks always to Super Beta 
elynross who (most importantly) made sure I was having fun, and to way2busymom
who bore the brunt of my creative tantrums, but rah-rahhed me just the
same. And she and I discussed the title just this afternoon!
I want to talk about this vid, but I usually don't say much when I announce one because I don't want to put any ideas into anyone's head. I just want it to go the way it goes, you know? However, I will say this: Thank you to everyone I considered begging for help and then decided not to ask. You don't even know who you are (well a couple of you might *g*), but it was my decision not to ask that made me open up After Effects and dive in. I'm still so clumsy, but *I get it now*. I'm not good yet, but I get it, and that's what I need. My Helen Keller method of learning. Keep spelling into my hand!
I learned how to use Premiere, After Effects, Particle Illusion and Photoshop in tandem, so that was fun, too. I don't know what I was afraid of now! It may have been fear of sucking, but hell! I live with that everyday, and I can't let it stop me, right? Anyway, this is me, coloring outside the lines.
As I was thinking so loudly before -- Download here: The Fifth Circle DIVX
It's at Imeem here
Or you can watch it in squintyvision right here!
You're going to know me by my trail of dead journals. I'm here on Vox, trying it out, so if you're on Vox too, let's be friends! Luminosity
Just announcing my presence with authority and other Bull Durham quotes as they occur.
