Visual Society Showcase
Competitions
Each semester the Communication Department will be sponsoring visual competitions for you to participate in. These projects must meet these minimum requirements:
1) Created during the current semester
2) Visual in nature
3) Meet the category specific requirements below
4) Share on the BYU-I Visual Comm Society & Emphasis Facebook group with images and written content showing/explaining your process
Daily Project
The objective of this project is to refine, practice, and develop one of your primary visual skills. The project will consist of 6 individual visual projects completed and submitted individually to the Visual Society Facebook Group over the course of 7 days that are part of a consistent topic or theme.
Personal Project
Projects submitted for this contest must be something that was completed for the sole purpose of you wanting to do it. It cannot be prompted by a school assignment, work project, or other forces. These are projects for you, because you want to do them, because you wouldn’t get an opportunity to do so otherwise.
Create Something Awesome
Projects submitted for this contest must fit within the broad theme of creating something awesome. This can be any visual project from classes, from work, or something you did on your own time. Go crazy and have some fun with this theme!
Case Study Requirement
When you finish your project you will be required to write up a case study and submit it in PDF format. This will help you refine a portfolio piece that will communicate your skills beyond just a single visual piece. You will want to put time into the visual appeal, completeness, and message since this will be a portion of what you are judged on in addition to your final project.
The case study should include at least the following:
1) A description of what you completed
2) A explanation of the purpose of the project
3) A showcase of the process of the project creation
4) In-progress visuals showing the creation of your project
5) Final visuals showing off the final project
(If there are video or animation elements you should include screenshots of key elements and also include a link to the video or animation.)
Make sure that a person reading your case study can see and access your work.
Prizes
Each competition will have two winners. All six winners will then be judged and ranked according to overall quality. These winners will then get to pick one of the following prizes in the order they have been ranked.
Apple iPad & Pencil
Value *$250
Apple AirPod Pros
Value *$189
Light Wand
Value *$40
1-Year Adobe Access (x3)
Enjoy uninterrupted access to the Adobe Cloud for 1 straight year. Starts at the time of award and ends 1 year later.
Value *$240+ each. Cannot extend past graduation.
**The visual entry must be created during this current semester.
****We must receive a minimum of 10 entries to award prizes for an individual contest. Encourage others to participate to lower the chances of some of the contests being cancelled.
How to Submit
Step #1
Choose a competition to participate in. Know that you can always turn in multiple submissions, and you can participate in multiple competitions. A list of all the competitions for this semester can be found above.
Step #2
Complete a PDF case study for each competition submission. See the case study requirements above.
Step #3
Follow all the requirements for the competition(s) you are working on. Share your project on the BYU-I Visual Comm Society & Emphasis Facebook group with the following information:
1) State the competition you want to enter
2) A link to your PDF case study
3) A short description of your project
4) Your final project visuals
Join this group today: https://www.facebook.com/groups/visualcomm/