What’s involved?
The Heywire competition is up and running & entries are open until October the 3rd.
Young people from regional and rural Australia 16-22 years of age are invited to submit a story in text, audio, pictures or moving images about their life issues and experience.
This can include:
AUDIO: a written piece up to 400 words in a style suitable for radio - or an MP3 up to 3 mins long
VIDEO: up to 4 minute video. It could be shot on the best camera possible, or on a mobile phone. The quality does not matter. It is the idea and how that is conveyed
TEXT: up to 1500 words in-depth piece to be published in our zine and on our blog
STILL SHOTS / ART: a series of 25 images/photos which tell a story
Winning stories are selected from each of approx 41 ABC regions around Australia. These stories are produced by the ABC and broadcast either on national ABC Radio, ABC Online and/or ABC TV.
Winners are invited to take part in the all expenses paid Heywire Youth Issues Forum, to be held at the Australian Institute of Sport in Canberra in February 2009.
The ABC will work alongside the winners to help produce the pieces that will finally be broadcast on the ABC, so Heywire is not about being the best writer or media maker. Heywire is absolutely about being passionate about issues and ideas and communicating them in such a way that people will take notice.
And what's classified as regional for Heywire? EVERY part of Australia outside Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Adelaide and Perth!
Check out all the info at http://blogs.abc.net.au/heywire/
You can also download info and entry forms here:
The entry info http://blogs.abc.net.au/heywire/files/Entry_Info2.pdf
The entry form http://blogs.abc.net.au/heywire/files/heywire_entry_form2.pdf
Why should people do this?
I want to do this!
