Guidelines and General Rules for the “AV Sans Frontieres Salon” 

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Entries are welcome from groups, clubs and individuals. Each Entry must be accompanied by 

1. An Entry Form with a summary  the AV (English or French);

2. A poster (1920 x 1080px jpg) for each entry;

3. A portrait of the entrant (600 x 800px jpg); ) a Proof of Payment receipt (PayPal or Bank Transfer)

4. Each entrant may enter one or two Sequences.    The entry fees are £10 (for one entry) or £15 (for two entries)​ ​

5. Open entry must be no longer than 8 minutes.​

6.  All entries are to be submitted as MP4 format video files.

7. The organisers reserve the right to refuse to accept any Entry which they consider to be undesirable or unsuitable.

8. It is the entrant’s own responsibility to ensure that any material recorded on the soundtrack or shown images, is appropriately covered against copyright infringement.  The exhibition assumes no liability for any misuse of copyright by the entrant.   All sequences will initially be scanned by a commercially available antivirus program. If any problems are encountered the entrant will be contacted to resolve the matter. It will be at the organiser’s discretion to withdraw a sequence if no solution can be found, or if the entrant cannot be contacted.

9. Age Limit: Entries must have been made within 3 (three) years prior to the closing date.

10. Collaboration: An entrant’s name may NOT be credited to more than TWO sequences as author or co-author.

11.  We are offering you the opportunity to show your AI-Generated work and is not associated with any other competitions.

12. The images can be produced either partially or solely using AI Generative software.

13. The subject is ‘Open’ and we encourage you to be as creative and imaginative with the new technology as you can.

14.  Images generated by the author’s own text prompts are preferable, but externally sources AI images are  also allowed.

15. NB: When preparing your entry, please re-name it as “AI_name of entry.MP4” to allow us to easily identify it.

16. Submission of Entries​ can be sent via We Transfer or Smash to jurassicav@gmail.com

   

The entry must include the following:

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1. AV sequence/s  

2. Entry Form

3. Poster

4. Portrait

5. Proof of Payment

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Electronic Submission;  We Transfer has a time limit of 3 days for the free version. Alternatives who currently offer a seven-day window are https://fromsmash.com/;  TransferNow (https://www.transfernow.net/en).
If  electronic submission is not possible, the entry could be sent on a CD by post, but to arrive not later than the closing date. The CDs will be destroyed after the competition.
Please post to: Ian Bateman, 22 Phillipps Ave, Exmouth Devon UK EX8 3HZ.

 

Payment 

1. If you wish to pay by cheque (UK entrants only) please make this payable to Exmouth Photo Group.

2. Payment can be made on-line via PayPal to jurassicav@gmail.com  (please use Friends & Family method)

3. Alternatively, you can pay by bank transfer to:

• Exmouth Photo Group,

• A/C No: 72392061, 

• Sort code: 60-08-09. 

• International IBAN bank account number - GB61NWBK60080972392061, 

• Bank - National Westminster,

• Account - Exmouth Photo Group  

      Please indicate your name on payment