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By Michael Godfrey
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Illustration by Andrew Howerton • ahowert2@mscd.edu Graphic by Joe Nguyen • nguyejos@mscd.edu

The Office of Student Activities has teamed up with Apple once again to host iMovie Madness, a Metro-wide moviemaking contest for students who want to explore the brave new world of video-editing software.

The festival kicks off on Jan. 25 with an informational meeting held from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. in Tivoli 320, where students will be issued digital video cameras and Apple laptops. Students will also be given a quick tutorial in Apple’s iMovie software.

For one week, teams of up to four Metro students will be given the chance to create and film a three-minute movie on a theme that will be revealed at the kickoff meeting.

The contest is part of Metro’s homecoming celebrations taking place during the last week of January. Other activities include a penny drive and a mashed potato diving contest.

This year marks the second year of the contest. Last year students competed to create a movie that reflected the theme of Metro’s 40th anniversary. The contest ended, as it will this year, with a red carpet premiere of the 10 best films.

“I helped make a movie for the contest last year, and it was a blast,” Tye Olmested said. “We only had a week to create, film and shoot three minutes of film, it was intense.”

Students interested in the iMovie contest or any of the other homecoming activities planned during the week of Jan. 22-26 can go to Metro’s Homecoming 2007 events page at http://www.mscd.edu/~alumni/homecoming.