how to get involved
 memory grid submission form
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you can add to the memory grid
Educational institutions or students of all ages can submit work completed in a course of study.
Community documentary makers and independent filmmakers are invited to submit their projects.
Students and community practitioners of interactive design can submit CD-Rom and DVD interactive projects.
Anyone with great ideas can make a work for MAP (Memory and Place).
Schools or community groups can book their students into a production program at ACMI that may generate a work
If you have a work that you would like to submit to Memory Grid, first read the submission guidelines below, download the Memory Grid submission form, print it, fill it out and return it to the address provided. For more information, or if you cannot access the form, email memorygrid@acmi.net.au or phone (03) 8663 2434.
eligible work
The Memory Grid is a showcase for emerging talent and alternative voices in the mediums of short film, animation, documentary, TV, video, multimedia and single screen interactive design. The following types of content will be considered for exhibition:
- Work created in a course of study (Tertiary, Secondary, Primary, Continuing Education) including films, videos, documentaries, multimedia and interactive projects (that can be displayed on a single screen)
- Independent documentaries under 40 minutes
- Independently produced short films, video, multimedia and interactive projects (that can be displayed on a single screen)
- Content produced for Community Television
- Amateur film and video productions of good quality including archival footage
Not all works are suitable for the Memory Grid for many reasons including classification, copyright, length, quality and theme, so there is a selection process and some work may be found not appropriate for this project.
submission process and dates
All works must be contributed for preview with a completed submission form. No work will be considered without a completed form.
Please check the technical specifications for preview formats. Only preview copies of unsuccessful applications will be returned. PLEASE DO NOT SEND your only master copy to ACMI as a preview.
A panel views all submissions twice annually and makes recommendations on works to be collected by ACMI for the Memory Grid. The next deadline for submission is:
31 May
Submissions received after this date are held over to the next assessment period.
Please note, we do not accept show reels or portfolios.
technical specifications
Preview Formats
Send your preview on DVD, CDROM, DV tape or VHS tape format
For digital video files the most desirable format is QuickTime Movie, with DV-PAL compression, 25 frames per second, highest quality setting and with a frame size of 720x576 (4:3) or 1024x576 (16:9). Mpeg2 and .SWF files are also acceptable.
Film and Video Masters
All video work is likely to be displayed as 8Mbit MPEG 2 streams or DVD on a plasma or LCD screen in the Memory Grid. This means it is desirable that if your work is selected from first viewing that it is available at the highest possible (master) quality.
The best master formats for video work are DVCAM, Mini DV, Digi-Beta and SP Beta. Where finished pieces are only available as digital video files the most desirable formats are MPEG 2 or QuickTime DV-PAL at the highest quality setting with a frame size of 720x576 (4:3) or 1024x576 (16:9).
Sound quality should ideally be either 44.1 or 48 kHz 16bit stereo with no compression applied.
Interactive works
- Please provide a quit button embedded within your project (if the file is an executable or director projector file (does not apply to a .swf/flash file).
- Please make your work play 'full' screen' and at the dimensions of 1280 x 1024.
- Please make the project self-contained, don't include links to external projects /online web pages or to an email program.
- Please provide source-files.
copyright
You must hold copyright to the work you submit or be authorised by the copyright holder to act on their behalf. Any third party copyright holders such as actors or musicians or, in the case of archival works, the original filmmakers must have already vested copyright with you (this may be inherited from deceased family members).
Commercial music is not copyright free - you must have cleared rights to use of the music in your production for ongoing exhibition with the relevant production company.
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