Blastwave FX and Avid Announce New Sound Design Competition

Blastwave FX and Avid announced a new Sound Design Competition with the chance to win more than $12.000 on Avid/Blastwave FX products.

RULES

• Submit: A 0:30 – 0:45 second video with stereo soundtrack. The total length should include the intro and outro video clips provided in the Competition Download Pack.
• You must use at least three sound effects from the competition download pack. You may process and distort these effects, but they must be somewhat recognizable.
• The intro and outro video clips must be used, and we encourage you to sound design them.
• Entries can be any style: real/surreal, with or without dialogue, with live actors, documentary style interviews, motion graphics, animation, etc. Some participants will inevitably disagree with the wide-open format, but we want to encourage as much outside-the-box thinking and creativity as possible.
• If you are one of the top twenty finalists, we will request the original Quicktime video.
• The one winner will receive a Turnkey Post System (see Info section above).
• Participants release all ownership rights related to their audio/video to Avid and Blastwave FX.
• Participants’ names will be withheld from judges.

HOW TO SUBMIT YOUR ENTRY

• Upload video to You Tube.
• Include “Blastwave FX and Avid Competition” and your name in the title.
• Email the URL link to [email protected] with “Competition Link” in the subject line. You will receive a confirmation email within five days upon submitting.

SPECS

• Audio: 16-bit 48 kHz or 44.1 kHz stereo .wav file.
  Video: H.264, 1280 x 720, 29.97 FPS, Quicktime

JUDGES

• Skip Lievsay
• Jacob Ribicoff
• Ric Viers

JUDGING CRITERIA

• How well the soundtrack supports the video or the video supports the soundtrack.
• Exemplification of the question, “What is the role of sound for picture?”
• Structure and flow from beginning to end.
• The judges will evaluate the intro, outro, and everything in between.

PRIZES

Grand Prize (Need to submit an entry to the competition and get the 1st place)

• Avid Media Composer
• Mbox and Pro Tools LE
• Blastwave FX Sonopedia Library
• The Sound Effects Bible
• DV Toolkit 2

Giveaway Prizes (just need to register on the competition) (2 Winners)

• Mbox Mini and Pro Tools LE
• Blastwave FX WavFX Library
• 2 Blastwave FX Download Packs
• The Sound Effects Bible
• DV Toolkit 2

DEADLINE

• Submit entries by April 20, 2010
• The winners will be announced on May 5, 2010.
• The Winner must be prepared to describe how they created their entry, such as what kinds of editing software and plug-ins were used, where they acquired the video footage, etc.