The goal of this competition is to develop students’ skills for designing and creating a video commercial.

• Only students from secondary schools that are members of MASSUM, and have paid the yearly membership fee can participate in this competition.
• Each school can nominate one team of up to 4 students to participate in this competition
• Each team participating in this competition will create a video commercial on the subject “My School” not exceeding 1, 5 minutes. Each team will lose one point for every second exceeding the time limit.
• The video commercial must be created with the software package Windows Movie Maker.
• Manuals for this software package in English, Macedonian and Albanian, can be downloaded from the following links:

http://www.pep.org.mk/en/wf/ws_mater.html
http://www.microsoft.com/scg/obrazovanje/pil/materijali/digitalni_filmovi.mspx

Audio recordings for the commercial can be in Macedonian Albanian or          English language.

• Each team must send their video commercial in electronic form, on CD or DVD, to the mentor’s address by mail.

MASSUM organizes this competition together with Microsoft Partners in Learning program and USAID PEP project. Video commercials will be assessed by the judges, prior to the Educational Rendezvous 2009, and the results will be announced at a special ceremony during the Educational Rendezvous 2009.

The assessment of the teams will be carried out according to previously established criteria, given in addition. The winner will have the opportunity to promote the commercial on the stand of Microsoft Partners in Learning.

The prizes will be awarded at a special ceremony. The prizes will be provided by the MASSUM sponsors.

Assessment criteria are given in addition:

Note: Names of contestants of all competitions, including this one, must be written in the application form filled in by each school. The mentor for the corresponding competition and the application deadline will be announced in due time.