Notes for Teachers
Entries to the Competition should be the sole work of the individual student entrant
or the team producing a video entry. Any outside creative -- e.g. stock
photos, found images, music tracks, or code -- must be cited with text
references or hyperlinks.
An optional one- to three-sentence artist's
statement can be added to support the entry.
As in the commercial workplace, the Creative Briefs can help focus
class-wide discussions about solutions to the graphics challenges.
Teachers can bring in academic subjects to brainstorm effective
messages, and should encourage peer review and audience testing.
Creative work is collaborative work for most industry professionals.
In First Round entries, students should show the evolution of their work with
sketches of the alternative approaches they did not take. (Supporting
copy and art should be tightly targeted, not just a data dump.) The
First Round is email and PDF-based,
Once the judges' responses come back for the Second Round, students
get the chance to finalize their work.
This is also an opportunity for another round of peer review and
testing and a final artist's statement.
With luck, we'll be back in-person at CityTech for the 2022
Competition. This year's process may have some bumps and glitches, but
it may also help us build an online capability that we can use for new
competitions in the future.
Please send any comments, questions and good ideas to event
organizer
Jack Powers, JPowers@IN3.ORG.