Go Green!

It is perfect time to renew your commitment to helping the environment. Corel shares this philosophy and wants to help you spread the word about how you ‘Go Green’ to protect the health of our planet and/or why you think Earth Day is important.

Create a Go Green video story and not only will you promote environmental awareness – you could also win hundreds of dollars’ worth of software. To enter, contestants can use full versions or download a free trial of Corel® MediaOne® Plus to edit photos and create slideshows, Corel® Paint Shop Pro® Photo X2 to edit photos and/or VideoStudio® 11.5 Plus to create videos. Now that’s cool…

Contest Details

• Contest runs from June 13th to August 31st
• You must show how you are environmentally responsible, or why Earth Day is important
• Your story must be created with Corel software, with a credit specifying which software was used
• Winning entry will be based on the highest number of story views and consistency with the Go Green theme
• There is one prize only. The winner receives a collection of Corel software, valued at over $1500, that includes VideoStudio® 11.5 Plus, Paint Shop Pro® Photo X2, Media One® Plus, Painter™ X, CorelDRAW® Graphics Suite X4, WordPerfect® Office X4, WinDVD® 9 Plus Blu-ray, DVD MovieFactory® 6 Plus and DVD Copy™ 6 Plus, and a digital video camera
  
  Official Rules
  

1. Create your video
2. Add Corel ending credit
3. Upload your video to YouTube
4. Register your video with Corel (provide your name, address, phone number, and the link to your Go Green video)
   

Upload Your Video to YouTube Directly from VideoStudio 11.5 Plus*

VideoStudio 11.5 Plus makes it easier than ever to create and upload cool videos. With a few easy steps you can encode your video and add a name, description and keywords so your videos are easily found by millions of viewers online.

Here’s how:

1. Under the Share tab, click Share Video Online icon, choose YouTube from the drop-down menu and select the video quality you want, and then save the file with a name of your choice.
2. Log-in to YouTube
   You will see the dialogue box. Click Authorisation if you already have a YouTube account or click Join YouTube to create a new account. Click Next.
3. Copyright Disclaimer
   Click check box, then click next.
4. Describe your video
   Fill out your video title, description and tags. Click next.
5. Producing file
   Click the Upload Video button to upload your video, and then click Finish.

Increase your chances! Ways to promote your video

Send your video link to friends, family, classmates and co-workers telling them about your story and encouraging them to watch your video on YouTube. Spread the word by posting your link on:

• Social networking Web sites such as Facebook and MySpace
• Community boards
• Blogs
• Newsgroups
• Personal Web sites

Free Trials

Try these products free for 30 days and make your Go Green video. Start building the best story you can to inspire others to look after our planet better.


Helpful Info

Get inspired! Watch our sample Go Green video


5 Steps for Successful Digital Storytelling

• Create a personal story script Express how you feel and what this event or situation (Go Green) means for you. Share through your ‘heart’, not your ‘head’.
• ‘Hook’ viewers into your story Develop creative tension. Create suspense or comedy with effective pauses, timing and the unexpected.
• Reveal lessons learned Give insight about how this event or situation touches you, your community or humanity. A good story makes a point and has a moral conclusion.
• Be brief Ideally, your digital story should be 3-5 minutes long, based on a 1-page (500 words) script.
• Record your voiceover and add images, music and effects Music, pictures, transitions, animations and special effects can be used to reinforce your themes and ‘show’ the details that your voiceover isn’t saying. This work together to add interest and create drama.

Check out these helpful tutorials:

http://www.the-storytellers.com/vision/
http://www.storycenter.org/index1.html
http://www.coe.uh.edu/digital-storytelling/default.htm
http://www.storyofstuff.com/



Personal Digital Story Ideas

• Clean up and/or restore rivers, lakes, streams, beaches, trails, communities, graffiti
• All-Species Parade, Earth Parade, Children's Earth Parade
• Construct an environmental maze
• Plant trees or other appropriate vegetation
• Build a life-sized sculpture using recycled materials
• Organise a hike
• Write an Earth Day article
• Host a speaker or video
• Create an ‘unwanted seedling’ giveaway
• Build or re-build an environmentally friendly house/kitchen/bathroom
• Produce a TV or radio show
• Hold a celebration of trees
• Create a community garden
• Paint an educational Earth Day mural

Five Ways to Make a Green Impact

• Walk or ride
• Turn it off - lights, TV, computer
• Recycle
• Turn down (or up) the thermostat
• Compost

Register your video with Corel
Now the whole world can see your Go Green story! Good luck.

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