Be Reel Savvy YouTube Contest
BEST-SELLING AUTHOR OF FASHIONISTAS ANNOUNCES BE REEL SAVVY YOUTUBE CONTEST–
SUBMISSIONS DUE JULY 27.
Contest judges include producer of How to Lose a Guy in Ten Days and upcoming Friday Night Knitting Club with Julia Roberts; Entertainment Weekly senior writer; Guiding Light’s Daisy Lemay; author of Dead Is
the New Black.
Best-selling author Lynn Messina has written her first teen novel, Savvy Girl (Harcourt, $7.95 paperback), in stores August 1, 2008. To celebrate the book’s publication she has announced the Be Reel Savvy
video trailer competition, where readers are invited to produce a 30-to 60-second online video trailer for the book. Entries are due midnight July 27, 2008.
Two types of videos will be accepted.
*Â Follow the Book:Â Entrants are encouraged to read the first chapter and plot and character descriptions of Savvy Girl on SavvyGirl.us, then make a trailer from one of four sample scenes: the First Day, the Crush, the Party, the Beach.
*Â Do Your Own Thing:Â In the novel the main character Chrissy Gibbons tries to win a Savvy Girl competition at the magazine she interns at by writing a great essay. Webster’s dictionary defines savvy as “practical know-how.” Lynn Messina defines savvy as “street smarts.”
The author invites entrants to create a video, giving savvy their own definition.
Says author Lynn Messina: “One of the first pieces I ever wrote was an essay for a yearbook competition. That was it for me; I knew I wanted to be a writer. I’m hoping that would-be filmmakers will find this
competition just as inspiring.”
ABOUT THE BE REEL SAVVY TRAILER COMPETITIONÂ
The grand-prize-winning entrant will be determined by Christine Peters, producer of How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days and the upcoming Friday Night Knitting Club; Jennifer Armstrong, senior writer for Entertainment Weekly and editor of SirensMag.com; Bonnie Dennison, Susan “Daisy” Lemay on Guiding Light; Marlene Perez, author of Dead Is the New Black and Dead Is a State of Mind. Judges will be looking for trailers with positive messages that empower teen girls to have faith in their own potential and self-worth. Entries that fail to do so will not be considered. The grand-prize award will be a 30 GB Panasonic SDR-H18 hard-drive camcorder.
In addition, there will be an audience-choice winner determined by visitors to SavvyGirl.us who will vote for their favorite trailer. The audience-choice winner will receive a $50 iTunes gift card.
The first five entrants will each get a free signed advance copy of Savvy Girl.
Trailers should be 30 to 60 seconds in length and posted to the Be Reel Savvy trailer contest page at www.youtube.com/group/SavvyGirl by midnight July 27, 2008. For complete official rules, visit
www.SavvyGirl.us/contest.
ABOUT SAVVY GIRL
Seventeen-year-old high school student Chrissy Gibbons dream comes true when she beats out 3,200 other candidates to win one of four coveted internships at Savvy magazine. Things go from amazing to unbelievable when the editor in chief announces the Savvy Girl competition, a chance to write a monthly column. All Chrissy has to do is write the best essay of all the interns and the column is hers.
It’s the opportunity of a lifetime. So why can’t she do it? For one thing, the internship is a full-time job. Her boss is in the middle of planning her wedding and dumps all her work on Chrissy. For another, there’s that cute boy upstairs who she’s trying to impress. (Talk about a full-time job!) Plus, she has all those parties to go to with Savvy’s supercool fashion editor. (Hello! She used to be a supermodel. You tell her you’re too busy to go a bash for Stella McCartney.) With so much going on, the Savvy Girl essay falls off the radar. So does
her best friend. And her priorities. And everything she thought she believed in.
ABOUT LYNN MESSINA
Lynn Messina is the author of three novels, including Fashionistas, Tallulahland and Mim Warner’s Lost Her Cool. Her essays have appeared in Modern Bride and Self, among other publications.
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