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2015 MY STORY MY CONTENT SHORT FILM COMPETITION – CALLING FOR ENTRIES

CREATE A 60-SECOND FILM AND WIN
ONE OF TWO $1000 CASH PRIZES, PLUS
DVD/BLU-RAY PACKS, MOVIE TICKETS AND MORE!

To enter My Story My Content, students must create a 60-second short film and submit it into one of the following two categories:

  • Primary Schools/Students
  • Secondary Schools/Students

Entries must be based on this year’s theme: ‘Movies Matter’. Your film must be about how or why movies matter and include a reference to film piracy or its impact.

Entry forms must be completed (and films and stills uploaded) through the online entry system at http://mystorymycontent.com/entry-system/ by midday AEST, Monday 10 August 2015.

The My Story My Content website includes the competition rules, online entry system, additional information for teachers, plus all thirty finalists’ films from 2014.

COMPETITION OUTLINE

  • Entry is free, and is open to all students in Australia and New Zealand.
  • All films must be made specifically for this competition.
  • All entries must be submitted online at mystorymycontent.com, including uploading of the short film and at least three still images from the film.
  • Entrants may submit multiple entries, as long as each entry differs significantly from any others submitted by that entrant.
  • Entries close at midday AEST, Monday 10 August 2015.
  • The winners will be announced at the 2015 ATOM Awards Student Awards Evening, to be held in Melbourne on Wednesday 28 October.
  • The first-place prize in each category includes $1000 cash. Other prizes include DVD/Blu-ray packs, movie tickets and more.

MY STORY MY CONTENT TEACHING RESOURCE

To add further value for educators, IP Awareness has developed a free online teaching resource for My Story My Content, with clear curriculum links.

It presents a hands-on approach to making a short film and encourages students to value content from the perspective of a creator as well as appreciate their own role as citizens whose behaviour makes a difference. The unit includes:

  • a lesson plan, with a step-by-step lesson outline and relevant visual links;
  • a fact sheet to assist students to understand copyright and its relationship to digital citizenship;
  • a resources pack to support their filmmaking process.

This resource has been developed for Years 3–10 and can be downloaded at mystorymycontent.com.

To learn more about My Story My Content,
or to view any of last year’s finalists for inspiration,
please visit
mystorymycontent.com.

Entries close at midday AEST, Monday 10 August 2015.

Good luck!

To view the new 30-second anti-piracy consumer campaign from IP Awareness, click here.

IP Awareness is a not-for-profit industry initiative that promotes the value of creativity by raising awareness, understanding, and appreciation of copyright and the impact of piracy on the film and television industries. It does this through research, consumer awareness campaigns and curriculum-linked educational resources for Australian primary and secondary schools.
www.ipawareness.com.au

Australian Teachers of Media (ATOM) is an independent, not-for-profit, professional association that has been promoting the study of media and screen literacy for nearly fifty years. The membership of ATOM includes teachers and lecturers from across all subject disciplines at all levels of education. The membership also includes media-industry personnel, a range of media and education organisations and, increasingly, the general public interested in the media.
www.metromagazine.com.au

Peter Tapp
Managing Editor
Australian Teachers of Media (ATOM)

T: (+61 3) 9525 5302
F: (+61 3) 9537 2325
E: mystorymycontent@atom.org.au

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