Photographers and Videographers

Are you pretty good with a video or stills camera?  Want a chance to flex your creative muscle at the best emerging artist Festival in Brisbane?  Great!  We want you!

2high Festival is looking for six stills photographers and three videographers to work for around 5 hours on Saturday 29 October 2011 covering the Festival at Brisbane Powerhouse.

You’ll shoot bands, interactive works of art, performance pieces, and everyone enjoying the shows.  You don’t need to be a pro with super expensive gear, you just need to have an interest and some experience.  We will ask you to describe the gear you’ll be using so we can get a feel for the quality of your final product.  Feel free to beg and borrow gear to get the job done.

In return, you’ll receive mentoring and hands on advice from Madhouse Studios Director & Chief Photographer Jen Dainer. Jen and the Madhouse team are festival specialists who will guide you throughout the event. Working with 2high and Madhouse could see you take the next step forward in your career!

Still’s Ninja’s!  To be eligible you need to:

• Provide a link to no more than 10 of your best images in an online gallery (like Flickr) that were taken in the last 18 months
• Be available for at least 5 hours on Saturday 29 October (shifts to be decided closer to the date)
• Be available for a pre-festival meeting after 5.00pm either Wednesday 26 October or Thursday 27 October
• Agree to turn around your top three images by 5.00pm Sunday 30 October
• Turn around the rest of your images (no more than 50) by 5.00pm Sunday 6 November

Video Gurus to be eligible you need to:

• Provide a link to a video you’ve shot and edited (should be between 30 seconds and a few minutes)
• Be available for at least 5 hours on Saturday 29 October (shifts to be decided closer to the date)
• Be available for a pre-festival meeting after 5.00pm either Wednesday 26 October or Thursday 27 October
• Agree to produce two videos, each three minutes in length

So you’re keen? Great! Email a link to your work and your answers to the following questions to marketing2high@backbone.org.au by 5.00pm Monday 24 October.

1. Describe how you would shoot your way out of a mess
2. Please provide brief list of gear you will have access to on 29 October
3. List three to five bullet points that outline your experience, even if it’s simply what you’ve shot for personal gigs before
4. The Festival runs from early in the morning to late at night. What hours would you be available to shoot?

Copyright Details:

You’ll get to keep copyright of the images/footage you shoot.  2high Festival and Backbone Youth Arts have a non-exclusive, perpetual licence to use the images/footage you shoot.  This means they can use it for whatever they like, however they like.  However, you have the right to subtly watermark your work before you submit it.

You can use the work to promote yourself and your career as an artist, but you cannot sell the work to anyone without the subject or artist’s permission.

Artists participating in the Festival are also doing it for love, so they can request copies of your work from Backbone Youth Arts, who will provide it to them free of charge.

Any other questions?

Send them through to marketing2high@backbone.org.au

Backbone 2high Festival 2011 – Needs Volunteers

2high Festival – Calling all Volunteers! from Backbone Youth Arts on Vimeo.

We need Volunteers to help this years Backbone 2high Festival be all it can be!

We’re looking for motivated, independent and enthusiastic young people to come on and be part of the team. We’ll give you inductions, information and everything else you need to be a key element of the Festival.

You’ll be helping artists, audience and the Festival Coordinators to achieve the vision of the Festival.

Please contact us on programresources2high@backbone.org.au if you’d like to be involved, or download and complete the Volunteer Submission Form to register straight away! We can’t wait to have you!