- 2012.12.28
- Announcement of Nominations for “Jimot CM Competition”!
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Your hometown can be the best “Laugh & Peace” location in Japan. Let’s strive for the grand prize by creating a CM with “Yoshimoto comedians are resident in 47 prefectures,” based on your hometown’s charms that only the residents know.
Yoshimoto will gladly help you to create CM for introducing the region’s charm from your ideas, full of love for your hometown!
This time we are eager to find out in deeper ways together with you about Okinawa’s charms that only the residents know, especially around the venue of the Okinawa International Movie Festival, in all 41 cities, towns and villages in Okinawa. Therefore we hold the “41 Okinawa Municipalities Jimot CM Competition” as well as the 47 prefecture’s competition. Plus, we have the special categories: “Yoshimoto Aozora Kagetsu” in cooperation with elementary schools of the 3 affected prefectures of the Tohoku disaster, and the “International Category” packed with the charms of Asian countries. The completed works will be exhibited through OIMF to Japan and the whole world.
The CMs based on the nominated ideas of all prefectures and Okinawa’s 41 municipalities have been completed. Also we have published them all and started to accept your votes through the website for cheering up the regions! (The term is until 10th March in 2013.)
The criteria for selection is:
The number of laughs + the number of viewers + the judgment of the Jimot CM Competition’s executives.
Let’s watch CMs and cheer for the one you think is most interesting, makes you want to go there and for those from your hometown!
46 prefecture’s CM – Now voting!
Please vote by clicking the “Laugh” button placed on the lower right of the video of Jimot CM. With the result of the voting and the rigid judgments of the Jimot CM Competition executive, we’d like to decide the nominated works for the grand prize. The announcement of nominated works will be planned in the middle of March.
Note: You will be required to login with your SNS account such as Facebook, mixi, Twitter or Yoshimoto ID account to watch and vote for the movies. (Free of charge)
Okinawa 41 Municipalities CM – Now Voting!
Please vote by clicking the “Laugh” button placed on the lower right of the video of the Jimot CM. With the result of the voting and the rigid judgments of Jimot CM Competition executive, we’d like to decide the grand prize in the event of the Jimot CM Competition in the festival week.
Note: You will be required to login with your SNS account such as Facebook, mixi, Twitter or Yoshimoto ID account to watch and vote for the movies. (Free charge)
The special categories;
Yoshimoto Aozora Kagetsu x Support Our Kids project
Carrying on from last year, the “Support Our Kids Project” which provides on-going and self-supporting measures for children in terms of education in disaster-affected schools and nursing homes, and the “Yoshimoto Aozora Kagetsu” initiative for the support of disaster-affected areas through comedy, have joined together to create CMs with elementary school children from these areas.
Children have the opportunity to think about what they are proud of, and the charms of their hometowns, as the work of producing the CM is integrated into their curriculum. Children are encouraged through this project to take on challenges and develop their creativity, supporting a spirit of independence.
Cooperation:
(For Ibaraki and Fukushima prefectures)
Sekisho Corporation
Support:
Mitsubishi Corporation Disaster Relief Foundation
Partnership:
Wada Inc., Non-profit Organization Creative Lab for the Next Generation
Special Category: “The International Jimot CM”
This competition has not only spread throughout Japan, but is also looking overseas, mainly in the Asian region. We aim to create new CM works by fusing cultures together by making productions together with local artists.
This year, in addition to works from the Asian countries of China, South Korea, Taiwan, Thailand and Vietnam, work from the Russian Republic of Sakha will also be screened, with Japanese cameras entering the area for the first time.
At the competition, we will show the work of Ellie Omiya who is active widely as a writer, film director, CM director and CM planner.
The grand prize selected from all CMs of 47 prefectures and Okinawa’s 41 municipalities will be awarded the following:.
47 Japan prefectures:
The prize: 470,000 yen, broadcast of your CM and copies of the CM
Okinawa’s 41 municipalities:
The prize: 410,000 yen, broadcast of your CM and copies of the CM
The flow-chart of the judgment
ENTRY of Community-Love Idea Sheet
Nov.12 to Dec.14, 2012
Over 1,000 ideas came from all over Japan.
From all the community-love filled ideas, we carefully selected a total 87 ideas to represent 46 prefectures and 41 municipalities.
JIMOT CM FILMING
From Jan, 2013
Each developer and Yoshimoto staff together shot the JIMOT CM in their communities.
From staff to guest appearances and behind-the-scene workers, thankfully a total of 1,800 people were involved in the filming.
JIMOT CM WEB VOTING
Feb. 19 to Mar. 10
WEB voting for all 87 commercials at Yoshimoto’s video distribution website “YNN”.
The top-voted will be introduced to the finals held at OIMF on Mar.12.
YNN URL: http://ynn.jp/
JIMOT CM COMPETITION FINALS
At OIMF
At the finals, the grand prize for both 46 prefectures and 41 Okinawa municipalities will be chosen. The grand prize for the prefectures will be awarded 470,000 yen, and 410,000 yen for Okinawa municipalities.
Also during the event there will be held an airing event of the special category “Aozora Kagetsu x Support Our Kids” and “International Creation” CMs.
