Georgia Student Media Festival

1. Georgia Student Media Festival 2012-2013 Technology STEAM

2. Categories for Projects • Comedy – to entertain or amuse • Drama – tell a story with emotions and feelings • News – report real current events • Documentary – provide a personal view • Instructional – teaches something • Promotional – presents an idea or concept • Public Service Announcement – changes someone mind • Music Video (must be original music) • Sports – captures the essence of a sport

3. Live Action Videotape • A production that includes full motion productions • Live on-screen talent appears in the form of actors, instructors, hosts, or narrators. • Media accepted are CD, or DVD. • Time limit: 7 minutes

4. Live Action Videotape • Examples: • Fantastic Mr. Fox • Food Label Basics • Rules for the Playground

5. Animation (2 dimensional) • Draw or create a 2 dimensional character who will be the star of your story, then make a video. • Media accepted are CD, or DVD. • Time limit: 7 minutes

6. 2 Dimensional Animation • Examples: • Cops and Robbers • Humans Vs. Aliens

7. Animation (3 Dimensional) • Use clay, objects, or models to create 3 dimensional characters who will be the star in your story, then make a video. • Media accepted are CD, or DVD. • Time limit: 7 minutes

8. 3 Dimensional Animation • Examples: • How to Make the Lego X-Wing • Dance School • Medieval Animals

9. Sequential Stills • A series of images from slides, photographs, still video or digital images rendered into a production using PowerPoint or Hyperstudio. • They may or may not include audio. • This could be an electronic picture book.

10. Sequential Stills • Examples: • A White Stinky Moment • Do Dogs Get Tired of Eating the Same Food • Get a Grip • The Gilbert Gang Goes to the TED

11. Electronic Photographic Essay • These projects are a slideshow presentation that involves the organization of a number of original photographs on a single theme. • Titles and captions may be used.

12. Electronic Photographic Essay • Examples: • Angel Mounds • No Matter How Different We Are • Nature

13. Website Categories • Personal – If you have your own personal web site • Instructional – If you’ve done a web site for informational reasons • Entertainment – If it doesn’t fit any of the other categories • Include a “site map” (table of contents) • This must be turned in on a disk, CD or VHS tape.

14. Websites • Examples: • Geometry • Mrs. Tucker’s Famous Hall of Wax • My First ABC’s

15. Electronic Picture Book  • These projects must be original student work that has been scanned into slideshow software or original student artwork that has been created on a computer and imported into some type of slideshow software. • An author page may include a commercially produced school picture of the student.

16. Electronic Picture Book  • Examples: • My Dad is a Superhero

17. Podcast • A podcast is a digital audio program that can be downloaded and played on a computer or digital audio player.  • A podcast can be a stand-alone item or one of a series, though only one of the series should be submitted.  • Files should be in mp3 or mp4.  RSS files are not required.  • All podcast entries must be available for download from the Internet, but due to a technological uncertainties all podcast entries must include a backup CD or DVD.  • Video podcasts are not accepted.

18. Podcast • Examples: • 1800’s Show