Hi Teams!

 10 AM PST Thursday, May 17th (SUBMISSION DEADLINE!) is rapidly approaching so we wanted to make sure that everyone had all their ducks in a row (as @WorldofHiglet would say).

So here’s a quick and dirty check-list for everyone, if your questions aren’t answered here, please feel free to email or call us and we’ll work with you to find an answer.  The CTW team can be emailed at celebratetheweb@gmail.com and Stuart can be called at 856-952-5400.

CREATIVE GUIDELINES AND RULES:

Elements: How the teams choose to use the creative elements is at their discretion but each of the 3 elements must be utilized prominently.

1. The pilot must springboard from the following quote: “I give thanks for this world as a place to learn, and for this human body that I'm glad to have earned” (MCA)
2. The team must utilize the product design for fictional album from the real band Steam Powered Giraffe "Running on top of the Earth with Really Big Heads" in their pilot. Three versions and multiple file formats are available for download via DropBox here: Link
3. The team must use the number “1863” in their pilot.

Opening Credits: should contain the words: “Made for Celebrate the Web 6: Level Up! Web Festival” and the title of the film.  Opening and End Credits must be no longer than 30 seconds in total.

SOME NOTES FROM OUR PARTNERS:

Audiosocket:

The team must have the rights to any music used in its film and must provide releases for all music used, you have access to Audiosocket’s catalogue so use it.

1. Email Audiosocket at CTW@Audiosocket.com to create an account and get a username.  
2. Once you’ve chosen the final music for your pilot, email CTW@Audiosocket.com and CelebrateTheWeb@gmail.com with the titles and musicians used.  (This is so that Audiosocket can properly compensate the artists for their music.)

SAG-AFTRA:

If you have used SAG-AFTRA actors in your pilot, your production must be SAG Signatory.  All forms should be able to be found here.

1. Make sure that you have all your information filled out and paperwork submitted using the online form.
2. Your actor release paperwork, Actor Time Sheet (“Exhibit G”) and any other forms that SAG-AFTRA requires must be submitted to SAG-AFTRA within 30 days of the end of production.
3. Have questions about SAG-AFTRA?  Check out our post on CTW.com, you can also contact SAG-AFTRA New Media via the info on their homepage.

PILOT DELIVERY:

**Each team is responsible for creating their own NEW individual YouTube account for their pilot. Information can be found in attached document and at YouTube.com’s Create an Account page**

All Deliverables must be received by 10am PST on May 17th.  This includes:

1. The Pilot fully uploaded to team’s individual YouTube channel.

2. The video embed code for pilot emailed to Celebratetheweb@gmail.com

3. ALONG with a basic one sheet outlining the webseries that the pilot is for.

A NOTE ABOUT THE ONE-SHEET FROM LOGAN

1. Judging from conversations we had with other teams, many people waited until they were uploading to write it out. I would highly recommend against that. You’re going to be exhausted and this is supposed to be the quick, concise pitch. You need a good night’s sleep to make that work.
2. The One-Sheet should have the title of your show and your team’s name at the top. In the first two drafts of my one-sheet I forgot that, and that does take up crucial space.
3. This is your barstool pitch (people call it an elevator pitch, but I’ve only ever given elevator pitches while sitting on a barstool). You want to immediately get to the point. What’s the premise of your show? The who-what-where-when-why should be immediately known within the first three sentences.
4. While we’re at it, yes, the one-sheet is ONLY ONE SHEET LONG. Not one-and-a-half pages, one page of text.
5. Show off what makes this work on web more than any other medium. Have you come up with ideas for supplemental content? Throw that in!
6. What are you trying to say with this show, if anything?
7. One more time, rephrased: Get to the point quick. Close it all out with a final statement of purpose for your show.
8. Don’t get cute, but it shouldn’t be boring, either. You’re trying to tell us why this will be entertaining! This should be well-written!

**NO PILOTS WILL BE ELIGIBLE FOR VOTING IF RECEIVED AFTER THE DEADLINE!**

Additional Rules to Keep in Mind:

1. All footage must be shot within the 7 day period. No stock footage or footage shot or created at another time may be used.
2. Any type of video camera may be used, and there is no limit as to how many you may use during the shoot.
3. There is no limit to the amount of crew and cast you may use and the multiple roles they play on a team but no cast or crew member may be on more than one team.
4. ALL costs for production and submission must be born by the Team.
5. We at CTW are indemnified from any illegal actions (including breach of copyright) on the part of the participating teams.
6. The Pilot may not invade privacy or other rights of any person, company or entity; may not in any other way violate applicable laws and regulations; and may not contain any copyrighted elements (other than as owned by the Team).
7. Entries must be the original work of the Team and must not infringe third-party’s rights.  Each team must secure releases for talent, crew, music and locations (and any other applicable releases).
8. Team retains full rights to content. CTW just requests that that teams allow their pilots to remain on the YouTube channel non-exclusively for a period of one year.
9. Still photographs are permitted, provided that the team has the rights to them.
10. As with music, pre-recorded sound effects are allowed, but you must have rights to use them.
11. CTW reserves the right to disqualify any pilot at our discretion.

We love all your tweets and shares on #CTW6 so keep them coming!

Very Sincerely,

Jenni, Logan and Stuart

–

Celebrate the Web

http://www.celebratetheweb.com

My favorite part of working on Celebrate the Web from this side of the side of the Twitter account has been seeing the progress all the teams have made in just such a few (long) days.  None the less, all the TwitPic’s and Instagram’s of their productions make me wish I was back onset.

We’ve started an album on Picasa (for ease) and found that we can embed this (hopefully) cool slideshow.  Hope you enjoy!

So… people have been asking and we’re doing our best to comply!  If any of the other teams want us to add to the list, feel free to email us at CelebrateTheWeb at Gmail dot com or Tweet us @CelebrateTheWeb.

Keep Tweeting, we’re love seeing how well you guys are doing!

Here’s a map:

View CTW6 Teams in a full screen map

Here’s our list of our teams, their leaders, their City/State and their Twitters:

–60°: Simon Fraser

–Academy Leader: Austin McConnell – Missouri

@AustinMcConnell

–Anthony Nold Productions: Anthony Nold – Long Beach, CA

@ANoldTweetions

–Baker Street Regulators: Stefan Tabencki – Woodland Hills, CA

–Campfire Brigade: Vincenzo Balistreri – Milwaukee, WI

@spincenzo

@inaneramblings

@SallylouA

@ProfMcMurder

–Craig and Catie: Catherine Wayne

–Diachronism: Josephine Hoy – Seattle, WA

@josephinehoy

–Dragon Hunter: Laura Hunter – Los Angeles, CA

@misslaurahunter

–DRailed Cinema: Doug Wilson – Fremont, CA

@DammitDoug

–eggswhysee: Bryson Seastrand

–Happy Fish Productions: Briana Dixon – Mississippi

@Brielleariana

–Imaginary Monsters: Sean Harper – Arizona

@SeantheHarper

–MovieFilm Productions: Terence Krey – Brooklyn, NY

@TereneceKrey

@elysiasegal

–Oh My God, There’s a Giraffe in My Backyard: Berlyn Lee – Tarzana, CA

@Flat64

–OmegaDimension: Nicole Rutkowski

–Passaro Productions: Jaclyn Passaro – Phoenix, AZ

@JaclynArmani

–Puzzlebox Productions: Wynton Wong

–Something Cool: Elize Morgan – Toronto, Canada

@elizemorgan

@scottalbert

@kulturvulturz

@swimstein

@mikedonis

–Storm Factory: Gregory Storm – Los Angeles, CA

@GregStorm

–Team BREW: Mary Higgins – Vancouver, BC

@worldofhiglet

–Team Talenos: Matt Newcomb – Los Angeles, CA

@mattcnewcomb

@jaredhoy

@emdunham

@BenBurch_actor

@otruenyc

@RobbPadgett

@jamiefishback

@SusynEliseDuris

@lexigeek

@TonyaKay

@AdamRady

–The Nick Cages: Karishma Yangandul – Suburbs of New Jersey

@klikestoramble

@QueenyMidas

–The Ordinary Peoples: Jason Barr – Los Angeles, CA

@personontheweb

–Transplant Productions: Dan Ingram – Los Angeles, CA

@dwi1985 – Writer/Team Leader

@thatguyaric – Director

@nattylight009 – Producer

@Preditor318 – Editor

@sociallyfrekled – Producer

@JTeliczan – Actress

–You Dropped Your Pants: Thomas Davis

Without further ado, the official Participating Teams of CTW6 (listed by Team Name followed by Team Leader in alphabetical order by Team):

–60°: Simon Fraser
–Academy Leader: Austin McConnell
–Anthony Nold Productions: Anthony Nold
–Baker Street Regulators: Stefan Tabencki
–Campfire Brigade: Vincenzo Balistreri
–Craig and Catie: Catherine Wayne
–Diachronism: Josephine Hoy
–Dragon Hunter: Laura Hunter
–DRailed Cinema: Doug Wilson
–eggswhysee: Bryson Seastrand
–Happy Fish Productions: Briana Dixon
–Imaginary Monsters: Sean Harper
–MovieFilm Productions: Terence Krey
–Oh My God, There’s a Giraffe in My Backyard: Berlyn Lee
–OmegaDimension: Nicole Rutkowski
–Passaro Productions: Jaclyn Passaro
–Puzzlebox Productions: Wynton Wong
–Something Cool: Elize Morgan
–Storm Factory: Gregory Storm
–Team BREW: Mary Higgins
–Team Talenos: Matt Newcomb
–The Nick Cages: Karishma Yangandul
–The Ordinary Peoples: Jason Barr
–Transplant Productions: Dan Ingram
–You Dropped Your Pants: Thomas Davis

We launched the kick-off of the week-long event just a few hours ago and the teams are already hard at work.  We look forward to seeing the Tweets, sharing the pictures and watching the pilots to see what each and everyone of them come up with.  Don’t forget to keep us updated!

For those regretting not getting their team in on time, or who just want to join in the fun – it’s not too late!  Tweet @CelebrateTheWeb, Tag #CTW6, the teams have only just begun and there’s always some kind of help that can be offered and we’re always up to try and connect anyone we can.  In this time and with this medium we are not limited by geography, time zone or language.  Production may be done in Los Angeles, Missouri or Italy but post could be done from anywhere, design could be done from anywhere.

Go get ‘em.  Can’t wait to see what shows up in the Inbox in the next week!

THE QUOTE

I Give Thanks For This World As A Place To Learn And For This Human Body That I’m Glad To Have Earned –MCA, Adam Yauch

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THE GRAPHIC (Courtesy of Steam Powered Giraffe!)

Download assets HERE.

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THE NUMBER

1863

We are all incredibly excited to see what each team is able to create over the next 7 days and hope these pilots can be springboards to some terrific web series.

If you are still looking for cast and crew, don’t forget to tweet your requests to @celebratetheweb and we will do our best to circulate the information.

We would love for all the teams to liveblog as much as possible during this upcoming week, just use the #CTW6 hashtag on your tweets and posts. We also would love for each team to utilize the CTW Forums.

Any questions please email celebratetheweb@gmail.com and in urgent cases, your contact will be Jenni Powell at (858) 335-4426.

Good Luck! (and PLEASE make sure to read all the rules and guidelines)

CREATIVE GUIDELINES AND RULES:

GOAL: FOR EACH TEAM TO CREATE AND UPLOAD A WEBSERIES PILOT IN UNDER 7 DAYS.

The pilot must springboard from the following quote:
“I Give Thanks For This World As A Place To Learn And For This Human Body That I’m Glad To Have Earned” –MCA, Adam Yauch
The team must utilize the product design for fictional album from the actual band Steam Powered Giraffe in their pilot. Three versions are available for download:
https://www.dropbox.com/sh/1t0a8o04qhc4be2/7unmz9QTzE
The team must use the number 1863 in their pilot.

How the teams chose to use these creative elements is at their discretion but each of the 3 elements must be utilized prominently.

There is no minimum or maximum amount of time for the pilot but the total running time starts from the opening credits, which should contain the words: “Made for Celebrate the Web 6: LEVEL UP Web Festival” and the title of the film.
Opening and End Credits must be no longer than 30 seconds in total.

All creativity must take place during from May 10th at 10am PST to May 917h at 10am PST. Any creativity work in advance of the competition weekend is prohibited.

Creative work includes, but is not limited to:
Writing the script
Rehearsing
Costume/Set Design
Shooting
Editing
Sound Design
Rendering
Uploading.

All footage must be shot within the 7 day period. No stock footage or footage shot or created at another time may be used.

Any type of video camera may be used, and there is no limit as to how many you may use during the shoot.

There is no limit to the amount of crew and cast you may use and the multiple roles they play on a team but no cast or crew member may be on more than one team.

Team retains full rights to content. CTW just requests that that teams allow their pilots to remain on the YouTube channel non-exclusively for a period of one year.

PILOT DELIVERY:

**Each team is responsible for creating their individual YouTube channel.**

All Deliverables must be received by 10am PST on May 17th at 10 AM PST.
This includes:
1. The Pilot fully uploaded to team’s individual YouTube channel.
2. The video embed code for pilot emailed to Celebratetheweb@gmail.com
3. ALONG with a basic one sheet outlining the webseries that the pilot is for.

NO PILOTS WILL BE ELIGIBLE FOR VOTING IF RECEIVED AFTER THE DEADLINE.

OTHER RULES AND REGULATIONS:

ALL costs for production and submission must be born by the Team.

We at CTW are indemnified from any illegal actions (including breach of copyright) on the part of the participating teams.

The Pilot may not invade privacy or other rights of any person, company or entity; may not in any other way violate applicable laws and regulations; and may not contain any copyrighted elements (other than as owned by the Team).

Entries must be the original work of the Team and must not infringe third-party’s rights.
Each team must secure releases for talent, crew, music and locations (and any other applicable releases).

The team must have the rights to any music used in its film and must provide releases for all music used. As with music, pre-recorded sound effects are allowed, but you must have rights to use them.

The team must have the rights to any music used in its film and must provide releases for all music used, you have access to Audiosocket’s catalogue so use it. Email Audiosocket at CTW@Audiosocket.com to create an account and get a username.  Once you’ve chosen the final music for your pilot, email CTW@Audiosocket.com and CelebrateTheWeb@gmail.com with the titles and musicians used.  This is so that Audiosocket can properly compensate the artists for their music.

Still photographs are permitted, provided that the team has the rights to them.

CTW reserves the right to disqualify any pilot at our discretion.

As our submissions phase comes to a close (don’t forget to get those submission fees in, if you need assistance on that send us an e-mail at celebratetheweb@gmail.com), we will thus begin production on Thursday, May 10th, 2012 @ 10:00am, starting with our livestream of CTW 6′ s pilot elements, courtesy of TheLip.TV! The livestream can be found here.

At that point, we will unveil our chosen elements that you will have to incorporate into your pilot! Then, we’ll announce that it’s time to go into production, and then, well, we turn the festival over to you. This is your time to shine!

Some other notes to keep in mind ahead of your production week:

• Get all up in social media! On Twitter, use the hashtag #CTW6; we’ll feature some of the best posts we find!
• Want to livestream your behind the scenes action? Feel free to do so and send us the link!
• Feel like doing some interviews? Those you can post at any time! (The actual pilot, you’ll be given instructions for upload. Be sure to follow those carefully.)
• Stay hydrated, particularly you Angelenos! It’s going to be 70s-80s in Los Angeles all throughout production week (and 80s-90s in the San Fernando Valley – yikes!), so if you’re shooting outside, be sure to bring plenty of water!
• Have fun!

However, keep in mind that you are competing for a development meeting with Machinima, the one of the number one all-time Entertainment Channels on YouTube, and VidCon, which will be taking over the Anaheim Convention Center this year. This is a fantastic opportunity that many wouldn’t get otherwise. By no means are we trying to discourage you, yet if you want to get in the door with a company whose channel gets one billion views a year, we think you should probably know what a pilot is already.

• From May 10th to May 17th, you will write, shoot, edit and upload a pilot for a web series.
• In previous festivals, we were restricted to five minute pilots. We are not in this festival.
• You are prohibited from any creative work prior to May 10th. That includes writing of all sorts. You may acquire your team, actors included, but no prior writing.
• On May 10th, at 10am, we will live-stream the announcement of three elements that your pilot will be required to incorporate. For examples of elements (and more specific creative rules), please see our previous CTW’s elements announcement. How you choose to use the elements we provide (you will not know what they are ahead of time) is entirely up to your discretion, but they all must be prominently featured.
• All footage must be shot within the 7-day period. No stock footage or anything filmed at a different time may be used.
• Just to make it triple-clear: this is a brand-new pilot you are creating. You are making a pilot completely from scratch. This is why we will not give you the elements until the first day of competition – to ensure that the pilot you are working on is not a previously-produced series.
• No cast or crew member may be on multiple teams. There’s no limit to the number of people you may have on your team, or the number of roles they play within your team, but one team only.
• You must pay the $50 submission fee prior to the start of the competition.
• This time around, all teams that enter and pay their submission fee will be accepted.
• The team will retain full rights to their content.
• All costs of the production are the team’s responsibility.

If you have any questions, comment in here and we’ll try to answer them on this page as best we can!

Jane Espenson Jane Espenson had a five-year stint as a writer and producer on Buffy the Vampire Slayer and shared a Hugo Award for her writing on the episode “Conversations with Dead People”. Between 2009-2010 she served on Caprica, as co-executive and executive producer for the series. In 2010, she wrote an episode of HBO’s Game of Thrones, and joined the writing staff for season four of the television program Torchwood, which aired on Starz across Summer 2011 in the US. She is currently working as a consulting producer and writer on ABC’s fall 2011 series Once Upon a Time, and has co-written and produced her first independent original web series with co-creator Brad Bell, entitled Husbands, which premiered at HusbandsTheSeries.com on Sept. 13, 2011 and is about to go into it’s second season, which was successfully funded in part by Kickstarter.

Sean Becker Sean Becker is an Emmy award-winning director whose short films have played in festivals all across the country. After graduating from San Jose State University in 2003, Sean directed video segments for a variety show which aired on the UPN network. This resulted in a regional Emmy award in 2005 for the short film “Parallel/Parallel”. In 2006, Sean co-founded Awkward Pictures along with producing/writing partner, Payman Benz. The company was created with the intent to produce comedy based entertainment on both the screen and the internet. Recent projects include “The Guild”, “The Jeff Lewis Five-Minute Comedy Hour”, and “Comedy Gumbo”. He enjoys long walks on the beach and cheese sandwiches preferably served on a red and white checkered picnic blanket.

Jenn Miller Jenn Miller is the President and Co-founder of Audiosocket, a music and technology company facilitating deals between indie artists/bands and digital media companies. Before starting the Company, Jenn was the Executive Director of a national extreme sports association (WWSRA). She managed and lead all business operations, employees and hundreds of events during her time at WWSRA. During her tenure, she began scouting talent and providing music clearance services for extreme sports films and built up a strong network within the music industry. Following her 7 years with WWSRA, Jenn launched a successful multimedia consulting agency where she developed software for sales and events, managed music licensing and clearance, and did talent buying for events. This ultimately led her to pursue the business she was most passionate about- music. In 2007, she and Brent McCrossen partnered up to begin developing the foundation and vision that would become Audiosocket.

Ian Moffitt Ian Moffitt started his media career on the prestigious Carlton Television Graduate Management Trainee program in London in 1996. From there, he went in to a job with Carlton International, working with independent producers to develop shows for the international markets, then moved to Red Pepper, a small branding and entertainment specialist, before moving to a business development
role at Tiger Aspect in 2000, at that time one of the fastest-growing and most respected independent production companies in the UK. In 2005, he moved to Los Angeles to run Transend, an international rights joint venture with IMG. Having moved to LA, Ian spent a year at Transend before moving to BBC Worldwide Productions, culminating in the production and funding of a number of projects, including “GiGi” a web comedy series starring Josh Gad (Book of Mormon), in a partnership with MyDamnChannel.com. In 2011, Ian moved to Berman Braun to build their original digital content business and having built the digital production infrastructure from the ground up and having sold and produced numerous projects with brands such as Chevy, Wrigleys, Playtex and Acuvue, left the company in January 2012 joining Machinima shortly thereafter.

With CTW 6: LEVEL UP’s submissions deadline approaching, we want to make sure that you are able to bring in the most talented individuals into your Celebrate The Web pilots. It’s important to all of us that no one is excluded from the festival due to conflicts with one’s union status, so SAG-AFTRA New Media and Celebrate The Web worked out a solution!

We are happy to report that SAG-AFTRA New Media, as discussed previously, has worked with us to simplify and expedite the process of becoming a Signatory of SAG-AFTRA New Media. Producers looking to hire SAG-AFTRA members in their Celebrate The Web submissions do need to become signatory to the SAG-AFTRA New Media Agreement, and SAG-AFTRA has made that process as streamlined as possible for CTW.

Simply download and sign the form attached (do not worry about it saying just SAG New Media; SAG-AFTRA has assured us that they are still using that particular form for this purpose), and submit it to newmedia@sagaftra.org. No fee is required to sign the agreement, and SAG-AFTRA has agreed to expedite the processing of Celebrate The Web productions.

On the form there are questions that you may not know the answer to because we haven’t revealed the creative parameters of your pilot. Fill in as much information as you can, and if you don’t have the answer, don’t worry, leave it blank and it can be discussed later with a SAG-AFTRA rep at a later point.

So remember, you have to be a SAG-AFTRA New Media signatory to have SAG-AFTRA actors in your production, but they’ve made it really simple to do so!

Download the form below:

• SAG New Media Agreement for Celebrate the Web (Still works for SAG-AFTRA)

There have been a few questions about the SAG-AFTRA New Media Agreement for Celebrate the Web, so we’d like to provide you with some information that could prove helpful!

• It is not a requirement to sign the SAG-AFTRA New Media Agreement to enter the competition.
• The agreement being offered to entrants is the standard SAG-AFTRA New Media Agreement, and all standard rules, including eligibility rules, apply. Whether it’s outside or in CTW, the agreement is the same.
• What’s different about CTW is that they’ve expedited the signing process. The paperwork itself is the same as any.

Because eligibility concerns are unique to each actor, there’s no boilerplate answer to anyone’s “must-join” worries. SAG-AFTRA New Media has let us know that you should pass along any concerns about your or your actor’s “must join” status directly to them via e-mail (newmedia@sagaftra.org) by phone at 323-549-6446. Don’t be afraid to get in touch with them – they’re literally the experts on this stuff and will be able to figure out what you would need to do to help keep your eligibility and career in New Media on track.

Whatever help you need, don’t hesitate to get in touch with SAG-AFTRA New Media! They’re here specifically to help you out!