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Show-Me a Movie 2008
Digital Storytelling Contest for Missouri Students

(please review carefully)

Show-Me a Movie is a digital storytelling contest for Missouri students to demonstrate their creativity and digital moviemaking skills. Based on curriculum and with a content focus, the videos will showcase what students know, care about, and are able to do. Join us in this fun event!

Prizes and Judging
Cash prizes will be awarded to the different divisions of each category. In addition, judges may choose a movie or movies for special recognition. Checks will be made out to the winning schools. The judges reserve the right to switch movies into categories they deem appropriate if they feel the movies do not belong in the categories they were originally entered in.

Movie Length
Movies may have a running time of no more than 2 minutes, excluding title and credits. Movies that do not adhere to this rule may be disqualified.

Contest Timeline

• December 15, 2008 Contest Deadline: Entries must be received no later than 5 p.m. Entries received after this deadline will not be considered. Mailed entries must be addressed to:
  Show-Me a Movie
  Cooperating School Districts
  1460 Craig Rd.
  St. Louis, MO 63146
  Emailed entries should be sent to: mbogart@csd.org
• January 26-28, 2009 Grand prizewinners and category/grade level winners showcased at the Midwest Education Technology Conference at the St. Charles Convention Center.

Divisions

• Elementary: Grades 2 - 5
• Middle: Grades 6 - 8
• High: Grades 9 - 12

Categories

• Show Me Something New: Make an instructional or how-to movie.
• Show Me a Story: Tell a story about someone special, your school, your community.
• Show Me a Challenge: Share local environmental concerns and social issues, which promote awareness and public action.
• Show Me Your Community: Recount an aspect of your community/ethnic culture that is unique, significant, promotes a message, and advances a better understanding of it.

Rubric
The Show Me a Movie Contest Rubric is the criteria or the measure by which performance will be rated. For Show Me a Movie, the judges will rate 5 as the highest possible points attainable in each of the categories. Each video will be judged in five categories:
1. Content
2. Creativity
3. Storyboarding
4. Videography for Live Action or Videography for Animation
5. Reflection

Student Checklist and Reflection Sheet
The student(s) upon the completion of the project will complete a checklist and reflection sheet. These forms represent the students' assessment of their completed video, and these forms will be additional criteria the judges will use to determine if the students understood and met all the criteria of making a video. (Please see the Show Me A Movie Student Checklist and the Show Me Standards Reflection Sheet.) Each student must complete his/her own reflection sheet. The group of students submitting a movie cannot submit just one reflection. Each reflection will be scored, and an average will be taken of the group's reflections for this portion of the scoring guide. Maximum length for all questions on the reflection sheet is 200 words.

Storyboard
A storyboard is required and will be judged. There is no set form. However, students should submit some type of storyboard showing how they planned their Show-Me a Movie entry. Only one storyboard is required for each movie. Here is a sample storyboard.

Summary of Movie
Each student movie maker or group of movie makers must also submit a short Movie Summary Sheet of what their movie is about, including the point of the movie, the purpose of the movie, and any background knowledge that the viewer must have in order to understand the movie. This can be very brief--2 to 3 sentences. It will not be scored, but will be used by the judges to help clarify if necessary.

Teacher Checklist
Each teacher will be required to fill out and submit a Teacher Checklist so that he/she can make sure all items have been properly submitted. In addtion, teachers will submit a brief statement about their involvement in the movie making process with an estimate of time spent on their part.

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