First Light Awards 2011 Competition

Here's your chance to create a WeVee which could be screened at this year's First Light Awards Ceremony at Odeon Cinema in Leicester Square, London on 15th March. To enter, you need to create a WeVee (of 1minute 45 seconds long) using the clips tagged with FL2011 or FirstLight and save it to the website's Public Gallery so we can see it!

The competition is open to 5-25 yr olds and closes on the 14th February. For those of you under 13 years old, please make sure you have permission from your parents or guardians to use the WeVee website.

The clips are extracts of short films created by young people across Britain who have been nominated for the First Light Awards 2011. Use as many of the clips tagged with FL2011 as you like and make sure you use the competition music track "Chaos Engine" to create a promo film of 1 min 45 secs. The winner will have their First Light WeVee shown at the Awards ceremony in ODEON Leicester Square on 15th March.

Please Note: You will only be able to hear the music track when the winning WeVee is screened at the awards ceremony. However, you can still use the dialogue from the clips for you edit, this dialogue just won't be heard during the awards screening.

How to make a WeVee:

1. First, REGISTER on the site to create your profile area. Here you will need to enter a username and password which you can use to log-in to WeVee again in the future.
2. Once logged in, click CREATE NOW. This opens the video edit tool window. You'll see that the MY CLIPS is empty, so click on ARCHIVE CLIPS. Here, you’ll find all the clips in our WeVee gallery.
3. Type FL2011 into the search box and this will display all the clips available for you to use in your First Light competition promo film entry. To select the clips you want, click on the image once. A tick will appear and the box will be highlighted in green.
4. Next up is to select the audio track. Click AUDIO button. And select ‘Chaos Engine (FL2011 Track)’ this is the special track assigned to FL2011 competition entries.
5. Click back to MY CLIPS and you’ll see that all the video clips you’d chosen from the FL2011 selection, are now arranged down the left side of your screen. The Audio track is there too when you click the AUDIO button.

Now, you’re ready to edit your WeVee.

6. Select the clip you want to start with and simply click and drag it to the EDIT line.
Here you can adjust the length of the clip. Move your mouse cursor to either the beginning or end of the clip and a black arrow will appear, click and drag on this to shorten the clip. You can preview the clip in the left hand viewing pane.
7. Once you’ve selected the section of the clip you want, drag it to the video line. You can view your progress in the right hand viewing pane.
8. Adding audio is simple. Click the audio track and it automatically appears on the audio edit line. (You can adjust the volume by selecting a point along the line and moving it either up to increase or decrease the volume).

REMEMBER – Your WeVees for the First Light Awards Competition need to be 1 min 45 seconds long. Do try and include as many of the FL2011 clips as you can, even if it is only a very short clip.

To save your WeVee click the ‘save’ button in the bottom right hand corner of the edit tool, give it an appropriate title, make sure you include the FL2011 tag in the tags box and tick the add to public gallery box so we can easily search for your entry.

GOOD LUCK!!

See First Light's website and more information about the competition by clicking HERE