Seen It All Films - Digital Media Contest
Inspiring Change Through Creative Means
Hey Steemit community! Recently I made a post encouraging Steemit musicians to step up and branch into creating their own visuals. It was a very successful article, and I am truly overwhelmed by how many individuals thanked me and honestly seemed inspired to go out and create. It was a fantastic feeling, one I want more of, because I'm here on Steem to encourage and inspire creativity, it is my passion.
I notcied that the trending pages and popular topics on here tend to be a lot of reguritated garbage, which is what I thought the blockchain was trying to avoid... So I've decided to do something about it.
As an aspiring film maker in a desperate struggle for fellow creatives here on Steem, I thought why not host a contest that brings us digital artists of any shape and form all together.
Introducing to you ...
Seen It All Films Digital Media Contest Week 1
The Basics
I have started this contest with the intent to encourage and promote original artworks of any kind, whether it be music, graphics, video, writing, any kind of digital media response is welcome. The aim is as this contest grows, is to introduce new topics and areas such as a short film contest. But until the contest has built up, I will be accepting any kind of media submission.
How to enter
- Respond to the prompt with any piece of digital media
- Tag #seenitallfilmscontest in your submission and link it in the replies below
- Resteem and Upvote this post. Entries that don't do so won't be considered
- Get creative! I want to inspire creativity, so go out there and do what you do best
- Contest closes 26th March 4pm. Please have your submissions online before then. This gives you a week to get your creative socks on!
- Winners will be announced on Tuesday 27th March, along with next week's prompt.
Prizes
Please note I have changed this since I originally put up the post.
- 1st place will recieve a share in
purchased by myself.
- 2nd place will receive half the SBD payout for this post.
- As the contest grows I am hoping to gain some support from some powerful influences wanting to contribute to the ever growing creativity community of Steem. As we gain support, the rewards will grow considerably larger.
Please note the prize depends on the post's payout, so please share the contest with anyone you feel could benefit from entering, or might like to support the project. The more support we recieve, the more support we can give and add to the creative community of Steemit.
Our mission is to encourage better content on the blockchain. Content that thought has gone into it by talented people needing a platform to express their works. Let's help to make the blockchain the number one place for upcoming creative minds.
Any support recieved is heavily appreciated, and we hope the rewards will grow as the contest does. I am aware that the post payout for this post could be very limited, so that is why I am dedicating myself to promoting the contest with all I can to make it as worthwhile for everyone as possible.
Winners will be judged on creativity, idea and how well they responded to the prompt.
So who is with us?
The Challenge
So each week I will be introducing a new prompt that represents an issue we face in society today, you are welcome to respond to the promopt in any way you would like. I am allowing you complete creative freedom and am looking forward to seeing what you can all come up with! The idea of this whole contest is to inspire change, seeing an issue and speaking out about it. Letting your voice be heard.
Your response can literally be anything from a digital painting, a short video, a poem, factual article, short story, to an animation or piece of graphic design. Anything that allows you to create, feel free to enter it.
Please note I do not support plagarism of any kind, and any submissions found to be containing stolen content will be flagged. This includes any stock images or videos that aren't licensed under creative commons. If you need somewhere to find some free imagery, there are plenty of free resources online, see this article for some funky creative commons stock footage: https://busy.org/@seenitallfilms/the-best-places-for-free-stock-footage
Week One Prompt
As it is the first week of the contest, I thought I'd ease you all into it and have an approachable, easier topic to some I have planned in the weeks to come. These prompts are designed to get you thinking, passionately, about something that effects you. I decided on this weeks prompt because it's a perfect way to introduce yourselves. My goal is for you to enoy taking part in the contest, and have you participate regularly. I hope this will be an effective way of bringing us all together.
The prompt...
It's all about you!
What is YOUR thing?
The idea behind this is to encourage you to show us who you are, what you're passinate about, what motivates you. You can take this prompt and turn it into anything you'd like, as long as it does show us who you are, what you do or what you stand for.
I want you all to have fun with this. And I am so excited to getting to know my fellows creatives better.
Some suggesstions for those a little bit stuck
Don't worry. I know if you are a edm producer or a graphic designer, this can seem a little irrlevant and tricky to incorpate. But trust me it's not! I want to see out of the box and entries that don't follow unconventional standards. I am distinctively looking for entries that are a little bit different. I want you to be you. i appreciate creative projects, songs and videos espeicially take a lot longer than a week, so I don't want overdetailed submissions, I want quickfire things you are comfortable creating within the allotted timeframe.
for example 30 second snippets of a song or video are great. But I want content specifically created or relevant to this contest.
The theme can be incorporated as intensively or as loosely as you wish. As long as it boils down to what is you.
For example, if I was to enter this, as an upcoming film maker and music video director with a very abstract and quirky style, I would create some short of quick audio visual sequence respresenting my styles and feelings.
Feel free to leave any questions in the replies
If you are unsure on an element to the contest, or simply want some inspiration, please do leave a comment. I'm more than happy to help you out as I want as many people as possible to feel welcome to enter the contest.
Thank you and good luck. Happy creating!