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How To Win Short Story Contests.

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Many people win writing awards and gain a large hard cash income, year after year. How do they do it? They really know what judges of writing competitions look for.Just about all writing award schemes, if well judged, will have rigorous conditions for comparing entries. Many competitions publish their criteria, a few don’t. But if they don’t, how do you know what judges are seeking?Here are the three most crucial points that contest judges generally look for at the start.
Bear in mind: all judges are individuals, as are literary agents and publishers’ readers. An entry that wafts one judge into a rhapsody of incoherent delight will leave another cold. That’s exactly why a respectable contest will have a rating scheme set up.A system is necessary – not so much in detecting an outright winner (the quality of a superb entry typically speaks for itself), but in helping to make fine decisions between, for example, the winner of a third award and a secondary award. (It also lessens the chance of judges coming to blows.)

A ‘perfect’ story will often have a total score of 30 points. The top three prize winners commonly rate in the range of 25-30 points while the ten near-top winners typically fall into the 20-25 points bracket.True, there is still room for private judgement. Each judge will award somewhat different – occasionally completely different – points in each category. That’s precisely why a story that flops in a single competition could go on to gain first prize in another.

 

The Role of Film Editing in Film Making.

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The Roll Film Editing in Film making. Do you still remember the stories your grandma or mom used to narrate when you were a child. The very reason of telling
a story is to communicate a specific message or moral. Remember how the person telling a story expresses the different characters and emotions by acting differently or changing the facial expressions or tones. We definitely used to enjoy that and get involved in the story and start picturising ourselves in place of some character in the story. We start picturising more and more in our mind as we get involved more into the story. That leads us to believe more and more in the fiction. The same concept applies to the films or movies. The people making the film are trying to express or let’s say communicate a specific message to the audience. Of course the medium is rich and it becomes a bit easier than the grandma’s process but the essence remains the same, to tell a story in the best possible way.

So what exactly is a film? Well a film or movie is again a story told with moving images, hence the term motion picture applies to films. This is achieved by capturing photographic images with cameras. Most of us would have used a camera to capture images in our daily life. It’s the same thing. The only difference is in a film the images are captured in sequence. Like a horse galloping captured in a series of photographs to show the full movement. This experiment was done by Eadweard Muybridge in 1877, the first ever motion picture