FutureRise Africa is committed to seeing to the development of young talents in Africa. This year, the maiden edition of Creative Hunt is open to emerging youths and young talents who are interested in expressing their creativity to the world.
The competition seeks for participants who could creatively tell a story by expressing their skills and creativity through any of the following skills:
Interested participants are to engage either of the above named skills to tell a story on the theme: “You don’t become committed after you see result, you get results only after you become committed”. The story will be expected to be a single file of not more than 3 pages.
Registration begins on Monday, 22nd March 2021, and ends on Friday, 2nd April 2021 by 11:59 pm GMT.
Competition is Free!
Eligibility
- Age Requirement: The competition is ONLY open to participants between 14 – 24 years as at the time of entry.
- ONLY participants from the African continent are allowed to participate in the competition
- No priority is given to gender/tribe, however, FEMALES are strongly encouraged to participate.
Contest Entry Guidelines
- No Copyright Infringement. All work must be done originally by an individual for the purpose of the competition. Participants must not copy, use or submit existing work. All participants must submit a signed copyright-consent form which will be available for download when submitting the project. No unauthorized use of copyright images, text, or other materials will be accepted. The contestant also retains the copyright of all submitted images.
- All Entries Must Be Submitted Online
- You must register and be signed in to submit an entry. Participants under the age of 18 are expected to kindly download, sign and upload their parental/guardian consent form during registration.
- Submission File Types: Final entries must be submitted in either JPG, PNG, PDF, or GIF format, and should be high-resolution.
- No Multiple Entries are allowed
- Each participant can only submit to ONE category.
Note: all participants must submit a brief note (not less than 300 words) briefly explaining the concept of the design/art.
Guidelines & Judging Criteria
This section describes general guidelines for what our judges are looking for when deciding to approve your artwork and its award merits. All participants should understand the following before submitting their entry for consideration:
- Appropriate Content.
- Content should fit into the theme.
- Content should be real and original.
- Content must not contain any sexual or indecent view.
- Content/Design should be unique and clean.
- Avoid designs with personalized images and names of family, friends, or other organizations without their permission.
The final winners will be invited for an interview and required to submit a high-resolution file of their project.
Prize Award
The competition would recognize three winners:
- Gold prize – 45,000 NGN
- Silver prize – 25,000 NGN
- Diamond prize – 15,000 NGN
Additional rewards include:
- Overall best female – 10,000 NGN
- Best papercraft project – Free 1week mentorship class
- Best Graphic design project – Free mentorship class
Timeline
Application Timeline: 22nd March – 2nd April 11:59PM GMT
Submission Timeline: 5th April – 17th April 11:59PM GMT
YOU DON’T BECOME COMMITTED AFTER YOU SEE RESULT; YOU GET RESULT ONLY AFTER YOU BECOME COMMITTED
An example was almost made out of me, my poor response, wishes without taking proper course of action and responsibilities toward this piece of work, I lost commitment out of the factors yet I was wishing to have the prize attached to it. The topic then poses questions at me: were you going to put efforts to win the prize after the winners had been announced? Would your mere wishes get you the prize or your appropriate actions? Then I realized I was going to make nothing with mere desires.
Many remained at a point because of reluctance and refusal to put in effort into a desired goal they looked forward at. Wishes has been left unfulfilled, many dreams remains dreams, visions to no actualization and purpose to failure.
The concept of this creative work explains two personalities: A person who wished and visualized the end result, wanting it but does not put in for it, because he is aware of complications, challenges, distresses and had thoughts like ‘he may not win the prize even at the end’ and many other thoughts or reasons with negative impacts. And the second person who strives, presses forward throughout times (difficult times, days and nights) invests emotions, intellectual abilities and scales through obstacles and yet sustain readiness and positive thought coupled with strategies to defeat firewalls and earn the diamond set at the end of challenges.
I will love to implore words and theories of some respectable and achieved men into this writing, David Seabury in his great work – Your Four Great Emotion, said “Nothing gets done unless it is prompted and set in motion by I-want in the subconscious area of the mind”; Mohamdas Karamchad Gadhi of India also said “You may never know what result comes from your action. But if you do nothing, there will be no result”; Martin Luther King Jr. who said “if a man is called a street-sweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michelango painted, or Bedhoren composed music or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep street so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, Here lived a great street-sweeper who did his job well” , I will conclude their contribution with words of Ralp waldo Emerson that “without ambition one starts nothing, without work one finishes nothing. The prize will not be sent to you. You have to win it”. They all pointed that result comes only out of responsible actions through commitment.
Therefore, the course of actions lay out of emotional and intellectual bounds earn you your targets. Result or outcome is too late to get you committed; you only get committed to have a result. HIT THE BULL’S EYE WITH PERSISTENCY!
I have always been interested in Photography since we given the opportunity to be a part of an entrepreneurship skill acquisition in secondary school. There were various skills like carpentry, tie and dye, but only Photography caught my attention. I learnt immensely from a Professor who came to tutor the class. I graduated with the best award in Photography.
After secondary school, I started shooting different images with a mobile phone.I was very passionate and consistent about Photography. I had role models in person of Tolani Alli and Yagazie Emezi, who helped shape my knowledge about Photography. I watched several videos and read several books about Photography. I sold clothes and other items so I can save up to get a camera.
In 2019, I attended a power pension programme inside University of Ilorin. Students with businesses were called upon to talk about their business and areas where they need help. I went out and talked about my need of a camera. A man from the programme promised to help and I got my camera few weeks later.
Now, I have been able to carve a niche for myself with Photography, documenting stories and capturing moments. With this young aspirants would learn to build on their passion and get started. You don’t become committed after you see results, result comes after you become committed. – Taiwo Aina, 2021.
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