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  In the spirit of fostering Macau’s Creative Industries, and with the aim of bringing Macau’s creative people in the fields of sound design and moving image design together, CREATIVE MACAU, in collaboration with Solid Sounds, Ltd., the Macau Association of Audio-Visual “CUT” and LOCO CreativeWorks, is proud to announce the first annual Macau SOUND & IMAGE CHALLENGE.

  The SOUND & IMAGE CHALLENGE offers professionals and amateurs with skills in the field of moving image design the opportunity to form production TEAMs with their counterparts possessing skills in the field of sound design.

  The CHALLENGE invites proposals from PRODUCTION TEAMs consisting of 1 to 8 creative individuals. The TEAMs are challenged to create an audio-visual short, from 90 seconds to 3 minutes in length, designed to communicate the TEAM’s proposed message.

  Moving image designers with skills including, but not limited to, video editing, motion graphics, animation and visual effects processing, as well as sound designers with skills including, but not limited to music composition, recording, sound editing, mixing, mastering, synthesis, sampling, sound effects and Foley design, are encouraged to participate and seek out creative partners to form production TEAMs.

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  ONLINE REGISTRATION ONLY
  
  All TEAMS must register from 1st JUNE till 30th JUNE, 2010 at 23:59h Macau Time (15:59h GMT). New deadline: 12th JULY
  

  Eligibility

  • • The SOUND & IMAGE CHALLENGE is open to entrants everywhere of all ages. Entrants are encouraged to register in groups of up to 8 people (forming a TEAM), but may also register as individuals (a TEAM of one).
  • • At least one member on the TEAM (the TEAM anchor) must possess a valid Macau Resident ID Card or Macau “Blue Card” Work Permit.
  • • Each TEAM must commit to being represented by at least one of its members at all CHALLENGE gatherings, to be held during the production phase of the CHALLENGE on the following dates: 17 July, 14 August, 4 September (Cancelled).

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  • Submissions will be accepted from July 1 to September 30.
  • Each TEAM should submit ONE audio-visual short between 90 seconds and 3 minutes in length.
  • The submission should be formatted as follows:
      Video
          File format: Quicktime (MOV)
          Aspect Ratio/ Resolution: open
          Compression algorithm: H.264
      Soundtrack
          File format: uncompressed (AIF or WAV)
          Sample rate: 48.000 kHz
          Bit depth: 16 bit
  
  • All entries must be submitted in duplicate (on two DVD-ROMs, with TEAM name, title of the clip and length written on the DVDs) by post or delivered in person to:
  
        Creative Macau
        G/F Macau Cultural Centre Building, Xian Xing Hai Avenue
        Macau SAR, China
        
        Mon - Sat, 14:00 - 19:00
        T: 2875 3282
  
  CONTENT GUIDELINES
  
  • The choice of theme is wide open, but the short must be in the style of a “Message Campaign” or “Public Service Announcement” and must convey the message submitted by the TEAM in the Proposal Abstract during registration.
  • The creation of original content is encouraged, but pre-existing visual or sonic source material may be used, provided there is no infringement of intellectual property rights.

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  The panel of judges will make a preliminary selection of qualifying productions in October. Throughout November, the qualifying shorts will be available for public viewing on the Internet and subjected to a worldwide ”online public favourite poll”. At the end of November the panel of judges will select the winners of the “Best in Event Award”, “Award for Best Moving Image Design” and “Award for Best Sound Design”, and the submission(s) receiving the most votes in the online poll will receive the “Public Favourite Award”.

  The jury reserves the right to decline to award any of the three prizes, or to award the same prize in a tie to a maximum of two TEAMs, in which case the prize money will be divided evenly between the two TEAMs. In the event of a tie between two or more TEAMs in the online poll, the prize money of the “Public Favourite Award” will be divided evenly among the winning TEAMs. Winners will be announced at the opening of the SOUND & IMAGE CHALLENGE Winners’ Exhibition to be held at CREATIVE MACAU on 4 December, 2010.

  Selection Criteria

  • • Display of moving image design and sound design skill.
  • • Effective use of the above skills to communicate the TEAM’s proposed message.

   

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  Prized are sponsored by
  
        Banco Nacional Ultramarino | Macau Closer | Creative Macau | Candesign | Macaulink

  “Best in Event Award”   MOP 20,000
  “Public Favourite Award”   MOP 10,000
  “Award for Best Sound Design”   MOP 10,000   “Award for Best Moving Image Design”   MOP 10,000

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  Lúcia Lemos, Project Manager of Center for Creative Industries
  Lúcia Lemos is not only an artist, but an enthusiastic contributor to the local cultural and arts sector. She holds a BA(hons) Management of the Arts degree from IEEM and has been working in the CENTER FOR CREATIVE INDUSTRIES as project manager since its establishment in the year of 2003. She is responsible for running CREATIVE MACAU’s yearly program, which includes competitions, seminars, workshops and participation in international product design fairs. She has been invited to be the juror for many local contests in video arts, product design, logo design as well as performing arts. Besides being an art lover, she also participated and won awards in video-art and jewellery competitions.
  
  José Luis de Sales Marques, President of the Institute of European Studies of Macau
  José Luís de Sales Marques has been President of the Board of Directors of the Institute of European Studies of Macau (IEEM) since 1st January 2002. In August 2003, IEEM founded CREATIVE MACAU - CENTER FOR CREATIVE INDUSTRIES, the first dedicated CI organization in Macau and one of earliest in Asia. Mr. Marques has since 1993 been actively engaged in developing Arts and Culture in Macau.
  Mr. Marques, was born and raised in Macau, and served as a high-ranking official of the Macau Government from 1982 to 1993. He holds a degree in Economics awarded by the University of Porto (Portugal), and a Master degree in European Studies. Previously he was the Mayor of Macau from 1993 to 2001.
  
  Victor Garnier
  Victor Garnier studied classical guitar, music theory and harmony at the Liceo Conservatory of Music (Barcelona) and jazz and modern guitar, voice and sound engineering at L’Aula de Musics (Barcelona), a member of the Berklee School of Music’s International Network.
  He developed audiovisual works with the cultural association Telenoika, organising events such as VideA, one of the first audiovisual festivals in Europe. Victor was also involved in the development and testing of the Freeframe video plug-ins, real time video processing software now included in commercial applications like After Effects, Adobe Premiere and Final Cut Pro. His own audiovisual act, neXus, performed in festivals and events such as Contact Europe (Milan/ Berlin/ Vienna) and toured with such artists as Coldcut and the VJamm Allstars.
  Victor has composed, recorded, mixed and mastered soundtracks for a number of short movies, advertisements for TV, theatre plays and other projects in need of musical support.
  
  Ray Granlund
  Ray Granlund, a composer, singer, pianist and arranger, holds Bachelor and Master of Music degrees from Rice University's Shepherd School of Music (Houston, Texas). As a composer, his output has ranged from works for classical ensembles to projects integrating performance on acoustic and electronic instruments with various applications of computer technology.
  Ray was a classical composer-in-residence with the Magnolia Chamber Music Ensemble (Portland, Oregon) and an electronic composer-in-residence and musician with the aerial-vertical dance troupe Project Bandaloop (San Francisco, California). He toured with the dance company, performing his original scores with them live, in Macau, Rovereto (Italy) and Atlantic City and the Wolf Trap National Park for the Performing Arts (USA). He recently used digital audio software to perform original improvised electronic music in the Macau Arts Festival (2008).
  
  Miguel Khan
  Miguel Khan is a motion graphics designer and a contributor to Macau's visual communication scene. Since 2006, he has been working in the fields of marketing and corporate communication, designing and leading recently developed multimedia teams and the employment process of digital signage systems in the gaming industry. He is currently senior multimedia manager in a local operator. He has also been creating and collaborating with young local creatives, artists and with other industries, in a broad application of moving image design, from TV broadcasting to live VJ performances. Miguel graduated in Moving Image Design at Ravensbourne College of Design and Communication (UK). He has worked freelance in broadcast graphics, branding and advertising projects in United Kingdom and Portugal.
  
  Vicent Hoi
  Vincent Hoi (Little Bird) was born in Macau. He graduated from University of Macau in 1992. During his last year in University of Macau, he was involved in an assignment of a TV commercial production, with which his interests in Film and Video related visual innovations were first sparkled up.
  From then on, he respectively worked at the Audio-Visual department of the Macau Jockey Club, Cable TV network in Hong Kong and TDM (Teledifusão de Macau). In the year 2000, Vincent Hoi left TDM and started his production company which specializes in the productions of corporate videos, TV commercials as well as educational videos, for various government bodies and private corporations in Macau. Vincent Hoi is also an independent filmmaker. In 1998, He co-founded Associação Audio-Visual CUT.
  In 2008, Vincent Hoi together with the other four local film directors, shot the film “Macao Stories”. This film was the opening film of “The Viewfinder to Asian Film” organized by Macau Cultural Center in the same year, and had also been shown in Beijing 798 Art Zone and Beijing Normal University in October 2009. “Macao Stories” consists of five different stories and is directed by five different directors.

Sign up for the SOUND & IMAGE CHALLENGE for your chance to win the “Best in Event Award”, “Award for Best Moving Image Design”, “Award for Best Sound Design” or the “Public Favourite Award”.

REGISTRATION DEADLINE

All TEAMS must register from 1st JUNE till 30th JUNE, 2010 at 23:59h Macau Time (15:59h GMT). New deadline: 12th JULY

CONTENT GUIDELINES

• Submissions will be accepted from July 1 to September 30.
• Each TEAM should submit ONE audio-visual short between 90 seconds and 3 minutes in length.
• The choice of theme is wide open, but the short must be in the style of a “Message Campaign” or “Public Service Announcement” and must convey the message submitted by the TEAM in the Proposal Abstract during registration.
• The creation of original content is encouraged, but pre-existing visual or sonic source material may be used, provided there is no infringement of intellectual property rights.
• Each TEAM must commit to being represented by at least one of its members at all CHALLENGE gatherings, to be held during the production phase of the CHALLENGE on the following dates: 17 July, 14 August, 4 September (Cancelled).

USAGE RIGHTS

The organisers and co-organisers reserve the right to retain the submissions in their archives in perpetuity for promotional use only.

© 2010 CENTER FOR CREATIVE INDUSTRIES