This week, Hewlett Packard announced the HP You on You project, a worldwide contest that ask you to showcase yourself creatively and share who you are on Youtube, without showing your face.

Using the new video creation tools on Youtube allows people of all skills and experience to enter, and to further inspire, HP are giving away more than $300,000 in cash and prizes, ranging from the HP Artists Edition Notebook, to $2,500 for various stage winners and semi-finalists, to be chosen by both Youtube and their viewers.

More information about the HP You on You project is also available at http://www.youtube.com/hp

That’s essentially it! Get out there and create! I’ve already found some great entries, and would love to view more, so please feel free to ‘Declare Your Story’ here on the Media Match blog. Leave a link for your fellow production job hunters in the comments

Lee Jarvis.

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I recently came across this teaser video by a chap named Liam Leahy, and found discovered that it is part of an online fundraising competition of sorts, emphasising creative fundraising ideas and other unique forms of charity donation. The proposal is that upon receiving funding, the filmakers will be able to continue with The 5th Tower, and also, profit and fundraising from the finished film will directly benefit the subjects and their community.

Life in Rome’s Gypsy camp “Tor di Quinto” (The 5th Tower) is a balance of independence from broader society, and survival. A universe of its own, and in the camp only family is the measure of wealth…and heritage is the fabric of identity.

Sisters Maria & Silvana Gorgevic have chosen very different paths. Maria, a mother of 6 (and minding 2 of her brothers daughters) is an amazingly articulate former “cat burglar”, now just off 2 years under house arrest (she was confined to her shack in the first shooting session). Illiterate, and with no formal education, she looks into her future with new found optimism, and a conquering spirit. In February of 2009 she will be free to start fresh, and undergo the quest for “normal” work. Life in the camp is hard, but Maria dreams of making her way into a home with electricity and water someday.

I thought it was a great video, and would love to see a full version, so I hoghly recommend that you go to http://www.givemeaning.com/proposal/romadocumentary and Cote for this project to receive further funding and attain completion!

Lee Jarvis.

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Hey everyone,

We at Media Match are excited to start up a new promotion. If you are an unpaid registered member of Media Match and own a blog or website, you can get one month of paid membership for FREE. Don’t have an account yet? Sign up, and get your profile running for free, here!

How does it work?

If you are a registered Media Match member and you have a personal blog, this will be quite easy for you. Simply write in your blog about Media Match and include a link to our site. A couple of possible blog post ideas include a short or detailed description of the site, how Media Match has helped you in your job hunt, an informative wiki-like profile of our site, or you can write a review about Media Match.

If you don’t have a blog yet, there are plenty of free blog providers that you can join, including Blogger, Wordpress, TypePad, LiveJournal, and many more.

Have a website, but no blog? No problem! Just write about us on one of your pages, refer people back to us, and link back to our site.

You can link to the Media Match Homepage, but it may be more useful for your readers if you linked to the jobs board page at http://www.media-match.com/jobsboard.php. But, if you feel we have a page on our site more relevant to your readers, feel free to link back to that page instead (ie, the “About Us page“). (Remember, the link has to be clickable. To do this on most blogging platforms, highlight the text you want to make a link, click the icon that looks like a globe with a chain link in front of it, then press OK or DONE).

Once you have your blog post up, send us the following to blog_promo@media-match.com:

1. Your Media Match username (click here to sign up for free)
2. Your website or blog’s URL with the posting about Media Match

Also, if you know anyone in the TV & Film industry that is not with Media Match currently, why not tell them about this promotion? It’s a great opportunity for non members to try out Media Match at no cost. Just have them sign up for a free account at the freelancer registration page to get started!

If you are an unpaid registered member and a part of the mailing list, you got a head start on this promotion. For everyone else, this promotion will last from today, July 2, 2009 until the end of the month, July 31, 2009. Members who qualify for the free one month’s subscription will be contacted by email.

Thanks, everyone!
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