UPiktyuran

UPiktyuran Na! with Smart: UP
Centennial Smart MMS Photo Competition is now on!

Taga-UP ka ba? You have 100 days to showcase and share your stories
by joining the UP Centennial SMART MMS Photo Competition!

I've learned about this competition, brought by a partnership between Smart and UP College of Mass Communication, from an e-mail to a Yahoo! Group from Ivan Henares (who never fails to send to the group promotions and contests like these. But I do not know him).

Anyway, here's the contest rules:

1. About the Service

1.1 Overview.

As part of Smart’s support for the UP Centennial celebrations, Smart is partnering with the UP Diliman College of Mass Communications to launch the UPiktyuran Na! with Smart: UP Centennial Smart MMS Photo Competition and Polling (UPiktyuran Na!).

The MMS Photo Competition aims to urge UP students, alumni, faculty and employees to
share their own stories about their experiences in the university not through words but via photos taken using a camera phone, submitted through Smart’s MMS service and viewed over the Internet. Those who are not eligible to join the competition may take part through the Polling component, wherein they can vote for their favorite MMS photo entry as viewed in the web.

Smart would like to take part in honoring and marking UP’s Centennial celebration by launching a competition that vividly portrays the significance of the occasion and the meaning of being a part of the country’s premier university.

1.2 Duration.

UPiktyuran Na! shall be announced on June 21 and shall run for 100 days starting June 22, 2008 to September 29, 2008 for the MMS photo submission. Meanwhile, for the polling, subscribers have until October 3, 2008 to vote for their favorite MMS photo entries.

1.3 Theme.

MMS photo entries should communicate the participant’s story about UP experiences to
illustrate what being part of UP and its Centennial celebration means to him/her. It must contain elements symbolic of UP – photos can show people, places, things, or moments, or combinations of these that best illustrates the theme. Some examples - - shots taken from within a UP campus or facility; shots that incorporate a well known UP landmark; image of a family all wearing UP t-shirts (showing how many generations have studied and graduated from the university); image of a person posing like the Oblation (because UP means freedom).

2. UPiktyuran Na! with Smart: UP Centennial Smart MMS Photo Competition Mechanics

2.1 The competition is open to all Smart and Talk N Text subscribers who are affiliated with the University of the Philippines as: (1) student, (2) alumni, (3) faculty member, and (4) employee.

2.2 Participating Smart subscribers must register by sending in UP REG (Name/UP Campus participant is from/Position or title in UP) to 5355. Example: UP REG Bona Sy/UP Diliman/Alumni. Registration is free of charge. Participants can start sending entries on June 22, 2008 until 11:59 pm of September 29, 2008.

2.3 The subscriber or participant will receive an SMS confirmation
message if registration attempt is successful. Each MMS photo entry sent will
cost P1.00.

Welcome to the UPiktyuran Na! MMS Photo Competition! To send your photo entries, create an MMS message, type UP (title of photo), attach your photo and send to 5355. P1.00/MMS photo entry. All photo entries must be taken with your camera phone.

2.4 MMS photo entries must be taken with a camera phone. The subscriber/participant is not allowed to send his/her photo entry other than through their mobile phone in MMS. Photos must be taken within the competition period only and should be connected to the theme mentioned above.

2.5 Apart from the registration, the subscriber’s cellular phone number will serve as his/her identification (ID). A participant can opt to register several mobile numbers under the same name and can send as many entries/MMS photos per phone number.

2.6 There can only be one (1) registered name per cellular phone number. Should a subscriber attempt to register twice, he/she will receive an error message and will be charged P1.00 from his/her load.

2.7 To send a photo entry, subscribers must simply create an MMS message, type UP (title of photo), attach their photo entry (taken with their camera phone), and send this to 5355. Example: UP MMS Sunken Garden

2.8 The subscriber/participant will receive the following reply message via SMS if attempt to send photo entry is successful:
U have successfully sent ur MMS photo entry. Thanks for joining the UPiktyuran Na! MMS Photo Competition. U may win the Texter’s Choice Award! Tell your friends to vote for ur entry. Visit www.smart.com.ph/UPiktyuran 2 get the assigned image number of ur photo
& txt UPVOTE (image number) to 5355. U will b contacted by Smart representatives should ur photo win the contest.

2.9 Photographs that include sculptures, statues, paintings and other works of arts can be submitted as long as they do not constitute copyright infringement and not captured as full-frame close-up. When including in the MMS photograph artworks of others, it
must be as an object in its environment.

2.10 The winners will be chosen by a panel of judges that will be appointed by Smart. Photos will be judged on the basis of the following criteria:

Creativity – 30%
Adherence to theme – 20%
Composition – 20%
Originality – 30%

The decisions of the judges will be considered as final and binding. All winners will also be
expected to provide Smart with proof of identity or any information that Smart shall request for.

2.11 Weekly winners will be chosen as “UPiktyuran Pick of the Week” and will be featured in the contest microsite or in a publicity material.

2.12 Final winners will be chosen after the contest duration and awarded the following prizes:

Top ten (10) MMS photo entries will be awarded one Smart Bro Prepaid Plug-it each.
Final winners will be chosen from all entries and being chosen as a weekly winner will not be a guarantee of inclusion in the final winners.
Final winners shall be announced on October 10, 2008.

2.13 Entries and final winning entries may also be included in an actual exhibition that will be mounted by Smart in cooperation with UP.

...more at http://upiktyuran.smart.com.ph/.

Kaso, Globe ang gamit ko e...