Machinima Contest

The people at Koinup.com are offering 20,000L and a MachinimaCam to the winner of a contest they are sponsoring. Complete rules and details can be found at the Koinup announcement page.

Basically they say:

The theme is totally free. You can create a video, which features your first 100 days in Second Life, or create a whole story, directing other avatars! Otherwise, you can show us footage from your favorite sims. Or just create a sequences of wonderful images and stream them, as a slideshow, Just remember to add your video a good soundtrack!

They require this to be a music video. You can use Creative Commons based tracks or, if you wish, tracks from some artists in SL that have agreed to provide music for the project (including yours truly).

Regarding the music

Here are the links to download:

• Dizzy Baio (together with: Funk Shepherd)
• Lyn Carlberg
• Melanie Fudge
• Rich Palmer
• Kim Seifert

Pay attention:
you can use these songs, but only for the contest.
you have to type credits (authors, titles and links of the tracks you have used)

If you want use other music, we highly suggest to use only contents released with Creative Commons licences. You can find good sources of CC music here:

http://ccmixter.org/ 
http://creativecommons.org/audio 
http://wiki.creativecommons.org/Music_Podcasts 

Get full details and rules at Koinup.com.