21st April 2008
EastWest is putting its users' creativity to the test while offering a chance to win all seven PLAY products with its "Score This Movie" contest.
From now until June 30, 2008 users can create their own score for an original short movie created by Zennor Alexander and posted on the EastWest forum. The concept of the piece is:
"This is a story about the circularity of life - Out of the void comes a seed which sprouts into a plant. The leaves of the plant mature which ends the growth phase. As the leaves fly off in all directions, we follow one on its journey into the unknown. The leaf meets another and the two fly around in a mating dance, eventually merging. The merged leaves become mature wings, and fly off through this new world to find the original void from which they came. The wings finally dissolve and compact to become a new seed, completing the cycle."
The score should have a wide variety of pace, mood and style and must be composed solely with sounds from libraries distributed by EastWest, with an emphasis on EastWest PLAY-powered virtual instruments.
Entrants are free to show their creativity and originality in the selection of instruments and the juxtaposition of their composition with the film's imagery. Once users have completed their piece, they need to post a link to it on the EastWest forum for it to be considered. Compositions entered in previous EastWest contests, posted on EastWest forums, or containing third party copyrighted material or software, are not eligible. From entries posted on the forum, Zennor Alexander and the EastWest staff will select a winner.
"EastWest is always striving to develop innovative projects to challenge our users," says EastWest's Founder and Producer Doug Rogers. "Last year's contest was so successful that we decided to stay with a similar format this year to gauge the usage of our PLAY products. We also feel that this contest gives our users the opportunity to showcase their work using a visual medium, something they would be required to do for any film, game or television production, in return for the chance to be well rewarded for their efforts."
The winner, who will be announced on July 15th, 2008, will receive all seven PLAY products which include:
For additional rules and download instructions, please visit the contest forum on the EastWest website.
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