Pieces of Taos
YOUTH MEDIA CONTEST!
What’s YOUR piece of Taos?
Coming on December 12th 2024 at the TCA is our first-ever Pieces of Taos Youth Media Contest. Open to middle- and high-school students in Taos County, we’ll award three $750 prizes and five $500 prizes to the top video, photography, or animation entries exploring the people, places, and things in our magical community. The audience will then vote on a Best in Show for a sweet 4k camera.
- A Person. What makes someone incredible or inspiring? This could be your awesome grandma or funny neighbor. Interview them about their hobby, their work, their passion — and then get some b-roll showing them doing their thing. For example, you interview your cousin, known far-and-wide as the best gardener around. When she talks about planting flowers, let’s see her actually plant some!
- A Place. This could be a particular road or spot, a restaurant, a gathering space, a park, a school, a historic site, a landscape, a trail or stream or forest or sunset. Make your special place come alive through spoken memories: interview the people (or even yourself) who know just how magical this place is.
- A Thing. The objects all around us have so many stories. Make your family heirloom or historic artifact or musical instrument come alive.
Submission Deadline:
Wednesday, December 4, 2024
Submission Guidelines
1. You are highly encouraged (but not required) to work with TK1 staff or senior students in sharpening your idea, borrowing our camera gear, developing an interview guide, and even borrowing one of our laptops to do the editing. Want to talk about it? Email Pete: [email protected].
2. Diversity and respect are essential ingredients for our entries. We will immediately reject entries that are violent, misogynistic, homophobic, racist, gory, overly sexual or sensual, feature self harm or abuse… you get the idea. This is a family-friendly event. Keep your Piece of Taos PG.
3. We will not show every entry on the big screen. Entrance does not guarantee a showing. So don’t be disappointed and get to work crafting your masterpiece!
4. You may submit a maximum of three entries. For photography, each entry can be a series of 5 photos.
5. Video or animation entries cannot be longer than 5 minutes. If you have a piece longer than 5 minutes that you’re DYING to submit and simply cannot be shortened, contact Pete and we can talk about it.
6. Video entries should be submitted in 1080p resolution, MOV or MP4 file format. Please try and capture good audio. If we cannot hear people speak, we will not screen your film. The closer the camera is to your subject, the better we will hear them. Microphones are definitely recommended, please contact Pete if you’d like to borrow one. Tripods are also available and recommended.
7. We reserve the right to modify any aspect of this Media Contest — including its outright cancellation and the number of prizes available — based on the quality and quantity of submissions.
8. You retain all ownership of your entry. However, by entering this contest, you grant TK1 the right to modify your submission as we deem appropriate (e.g. shortening for length). We will reserve the right to post to our YouTube Channel.
9. By submitting an entry or entries, you grant TK1 the right to use your name and image (e.g. Person X won Prize Y) for our own communications requirements.
10. In the event of any questions relating to the contest or to your entry/ies, please email the TK1 Admin Team at [email protected] or by phone/text at 575-425-0222.