Faculty Interactive Multimedia Competition - Entry Instructions
The Faculty Interactive Multimedia competition accepts entries in the following categories:
- FM1 - Educational: Departmental or college websites related to BEA-affiliated academic disciplines, course websites, and instructional tutorials used in courses. This category is limited to projects that further the educational mission of the BEA.
- FM2 - Documentary/Promotional/Informational: Documentary and journalistic productions, websites for organizations and institutions not included in the “Educational” category. Interactive promotional or advertising projects. This category is open to a wide range of documentary, informational, and promotional projects not focused on the educational mission of the BEA.
- FM3 - Entertainment & Emerging Technologies: Games, DVD interfaces, mobile applications, other interactive projects. This category is open to a wide range of projects that are focused on entertainment including serious gaming, projects that target alternative delivery systems such as mobile phones, or projects that employ emerging technologies in significant ways.
- FM4 - Solo: Any type of interactive production created without the support of other production personnel.
Submission Requirements:
- Web-based submissions must not be changed, except for required content updates, between December 15, 2011 and February 15, 2012.
- DVD entries will be considered in the IMM Festival competition if they contain significant additional material and/or an original interface design. DVD’s created primarily as a means to deliver a video program should be entered in the video competition.
- The entrant must provide instructions if a special plug-in is required for viewing, if specific browser/platforms are required, or if there are any other specific hardware or software requirements and settings necessary for the operation of the entry.
Please read the Faculty Competition Rules to verify that your entry meets all eligibility requirements for submission. To enter the competition, complete steps 1-3 as shown below.
STEP 1: Verify Your BEA Membership
BEA Individual Members are educators at academic institutions with active interests in electronic media or other multimedia enterprises related to teaching, research and creative endeavors. If you are not an individual member of BEA, go to the BEA Membership Page to join before proceeding to Step 2. If you need to renew your membership, you can do so in Step 2 when checking out of the BEA Store.
STEP 2: Complete online entry form and payment.
- CLICK HERE to log into BEA Member Services.
- Log In using your BEA Member Username and Password.
- Choose Online Store from the left sidebar.
- Locate the Festival Faculty Interactive Multimedia Competition Event and Click SELECT to add it to your cart.
- Follow the onscreen prompts to complete the entry form and submit your payment. Shortly after checking out, you will receive a Festival entry confirmation e-mail. DO NOT DELETE this e-mail. It contains important information that you MUST include when uploading your Festival entry for judging.
STEP 3: Submit your entry.
- If your entry is accessible via the Web, and you included the URL on the entry form, then no additional entry materials need to be physically submitted.
- If your entry is a fixed media submission on CD-ROM or DVD, it must be mailed to the competition chair at the address shown below. Mailed entries must be postmarked by December 10, 2011 and received by the Student Interactive Multimedia competition chair by December 15, 2011. Send four (4) copies of your fixed media project to:
John Dailey, Faculty Competition Chair
Assistant Professor of Multimedia
Ball State University
BC201- TCOM Department
Muncie, IN 47306
- CD-ROMs and DVDs must be clearly labeled with only the title of the entry (as listed on the entry form) and the Purchase Confirmation Number you received by e-mail. To ensure an effective blind review process, labels and the content of the work itself (if possible) should not contain any information that points to the identity of its author(s). Entries received by mail WILL NOT be returned.