HOW SPOTLIGHTS WORK

You may submit up to two different length videos: one short video (less than 90 seconds) that will go on our various social media platforms and one longer video (around 3 minutes) that will go on our YouTube channel. Only one is fine. IAWM will not edit the videos other than adding title screens and your name Please submit your information, video (in raw format, not a YouTube link), and any questions HERE.

For those of you very familiar with making your own videos, do your thing. For those that may need a few tips, please consider:

• Talk to the camera
• Limit any background noise, especially if you are not using a microphone
• Have the camera in landscape
• Leave pauses at the beginning and at the end of each clip
• Try not to start sentences with “ok”, “so” or “um”
• Make sure you are not backlit.

If you’re looking for some ideas to get you started, we’ve included some questions that you may want to answer in the video(s). Don’t feel obligated to answer them all and please feel free to talk about something that we didn’t include. These are just suggestions to get things rolling.

Topics for 90-second video
1. Introduce yourself
2. How long have you been a member of IAWM?
3. Where are you located?
4. Tell us about yourself.
5. What is your work in music (composer, performer, musicologist etc.)
6. Do you have an upcoming artistic event that you would like to highlight or share?

Topics for 3-minute video
1. Introduce yourself
2. How long have you been a member of IAWM?
3. Tell us about your work in music
4. What does a day/week/month in your life look like?
5. What is the most fun and/or the most boring part of your work?
6. How do you make connections and/or collaborations with others in music?
7. How do you create your ideas for your work?
8. What are the biggest obstacles that you have encountered on your creative journey?
9. If you could change one aspect of our society through your work, what would it be?
10. Do you have an upcoming artistic event that you would like to highlight or share?