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Do you want to work at The CW? Do you have the creativity to create an innovative promotional spot for Supernatural, Smallville, or Gossip Girl?

For the second year, The CW, BLiNK, and Promax/BDA ask you to produce your own unique, creative, youthful promo for your favorite show. Enter your video in Making The Cut II. If yours is the best, you will win an internship at The CW.

Last year, we saw a lot of great entries on YouTube. So, we’d love to see what you come up with this year. And to the many people that said, “I did it, and mine sucked”, do it again. You can only do better, after what you learned, last year!

To enter, go to http://www2.promax.tv/studentalliance/login.asp, and create a profile for yourself. Then upload your unique promotional video for your chance to win!

Check out the details after the jump…

The CW, BLiNK, and Promax/BDA Present: “Making the Cut II”

The highly successful and groundbreaking session in back!

Think you have what it takes to work in television? Think you know your favorite show better than anyone else? Now’s your chance to prove it.

The CW is offering students the shot at a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity: to create a non-traditional trailer for The CW and have it air on TV and CWTV.com.

“Making the Cut ” is challenging you to create a promo that could jumpstart your creative career by winning an internship at The CW Television Network. Did we mention your spot could air on TV? That’s right— your trailer airing on one of the biggest television networks on the planet. Does it get any better than that?

With today’s ever-changing media outlets, viewers are seeking out compelling and original content. The traditional way of promoting a television show is changing. Viewers and fans have an overwhelming passion for their favorite programs, and are generating their own trailers, commercials, video blogs, and personal content. This is where you come in!

The creative objective of this competition (and don’t forget this is a competition) is to put together a piece of non-traditional promotion that captures the essence of one of the following shows:
Quicktime .mov Right click on any of the shows listed or click and drag if you’re using a mac on to save the file materials needed to your hard drive. Windows .wmv

Gossip Girl
Supernatural
Smallville
Gossip Girl
Supernatural
Smallville

Each spot should feature only one show, but you can enter as many spots for as many shows as you’d like. Now, even though we’ve provided this program footage, you are encouraged to use your imagination. Feel free to use other visual tools and resources. Think outside the box, incorporate your own material, and use your own creative voice.

You can create a short spot, a trailer, a video blog, or a video postcard. Maybe you’re a graphic designer and want to build an original look. Maybe you love photography and you’d like to convey your story through images. Maybe you’re in a band and want to write a song that supports your piece.

Shoot something, record something, design something. It’s really up to you. The only condition is that the piece should be no longer than :90 seconds. Other than that, the sky is the limit! Just be original and have fun!

This year you will be able to upload your work online in one of the following formats:

Quick Time Movie File Extension (*.mov)

Windows Media Video (*.wmv)
MPEG (Moving Pictures Expert Group) (*.mpg, *.mpeg)

Please use the following naming convention for the file name:

FirstName_LastName.extension (John_Doe.mov)

The work can be submitted in 4:3 or 16:9 aspect ratio.

In order to submit your work, please create a profile, login to your home page and click the “Upload Entry” button. To create a profile and login go to:

http://www2.promax.tv/studentalliance/login.asp

Good Luck! Your future awaits!

These rules and more are at http://www.promax.tv/studentalliance/creative_brief.html.

Good luck!

Did you enter last year’s Making The Cut? Let us know how you did, and leave a link to your trailer in the comments!

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