Short Мovie

Personal or team participation (1 or 2 people)

As well as individual players and 2-person teams  are allowed to participate in the competition in this nomination. To participate in competition you should register at goldenbyte.org, create a team, and if its necessary, add a second team member.

In this nomination participants are invited to create a short film on a given subject. To participate the animation and video works that detail the job are accepted. The basis for the creation of the work can serve  a three-dimensional animation, video, classical animation, and other technologies.

Competition Topic:

The general topic of the “Golden Byte” competetion in 2018 was chosen as the “Invent. Create. Change” theme.

Important: as the topic of the championship is wide and can be interpreted in different ways,   an integral part of the presentation of entries should be the rationale of how the work fits the topic of the championship, and how it unfolds the topic. The inability of participants to prove the conformity of the topic of the contest may be grounds for disqualification.

Copetition stages:

1 round

Qualifying round in which the participants are registered on the site in this nomination must submit examples of their work in the genre of video or animation to evaluate the quality of work and professionalism of the participants. The works can be made specifically for the competition, or they can be from  the participants' portfolio, the  work  examples topic can be anything, but preference will be given to the films with live actors, and also thematically close to the theme of the contest. Its permitted to submit to the qualifying round the prepared task of the 2^nd round (short movie), if it was created specially for the competition and the work on it was started not earlier than the 15 November 2018.

The works must be original. The person who provided the work of others can be disqualified at any stage of the competition.

The works are accepted within the rules of the championship dates for the 1st round in a single presentation, the size of which must not exceed 10 Mb. Teams that were selected in the 1st round are invited to participate in the regional final.

2  round

In the regional finals participants are offered to create a short film or cartoon on the «Invent. Create. Change» topic. Competitive works are accepted within the rules of the championship dates to the 2nd round.

The winners of the regional finals are eligible to represent their region in the Finals of the international  "Golden Byte" competition.

The winners of the regional Finals are allowed to modify or change the competitive work after the regional finals to eliminate the problems and bugs, including - accordance to the recommendations of the jury of the regional Finals.

3 round

The winners of the regional Finals present their work at the final of the competition.

Requirements for the presented contest works:

Videos are presented in AVI or MP4 formats. Its acceptable to use DivX, XviD, H264 or AVC video codecs. Its permissible to use an MP3 or audio codecs AAC. Movie Frame size should be at least 512x384 and no more than 1920x1080. The proportions of the frame are arbitrary, at the discretion of the authors. Video frame rate shuold be at least 25 and no more than 30 frames per second (which is strongly recommended to adhere to industry standards). Maximum clip length is 10 minutes. The maximum movie file size - 400 Mb.

Videos and presentations that are not appropriate to these requirements won't be allowed to participate in the contest without extra notice of participants, and participants who provided the works, that are not consistent with the requirements can be disqualified at any stage of the competition.

During task implementation its permissible to use special effects, including computer graphics and other techniques in combined shooting.

Grounds for disqualification:

Participants can be disqualified at any stage of the contest without prior notice due to reasons of violation of the rules of the contest and / or forms of submitting the work, including but not limited to the following violations:

- Inconsistency of the contest topic

- Obviously incorrect interpretation of the topic jobs.

- Failure to comply with the technical parameters of the competition work (format, duration and the size of the video,etc.)

- Submission the works for the contest by the authors that are not the participants

- Plagiarism and borrowing in an amount that is not the quotation and can not be justified by the author's intention.

Evaluation criteria

• How much the movie is accorded to the competition topic.
• How much the story is thought out, how well it is disclosed and understandable for the audince.
• Were the creative, iinovative techniques of movie ideas report, its design used. The style of movie, its originality and accordance to the topic.
• Technical aspects of the created video. The quality of filming, lighting, editing and voice acting.