# NounsFes2023
## TL;DR ⌐◨-◨
The Nouns Art Festival (NounsFes) is an online film art contest and festival. The first event, held in 2022, was financed by the 5ETH Small Grant from Nouns DAO. Primarily successful in Japan, we're planning to host the second event in 2023. This year, we aim to expand globally and attract more participants than before. The main objectives of the festival include:

- Spreading awareness about the importance of a peaceful and sustainable Earth
- Materializing the "Public Good" concept, which is integral to Nouns' principles
- Broadening Nouns' recognition to a wider audience

In this proposal, we request a budget of 47.1ETH to accomplish these goals. The details follow.

## Table of Contents ⌐◨-◨
- Introduction
- Our Commitment to This Film Festival
- Preparations for the 2023 Festival
- Establishing New Submission Categories
- Intensifying Call for Entries
- Implementing a Participatory Voting System
- Enhancing Screenings and Award Ceremonies
- Schedule
- Budget
- NounsFes Originators
- Appendix: Achievements from 2022

## Introduction ⌐◨-◨
NounsFes is an online art festival, conceived by the members of NounsDAO, aiming to educate as many people as possible about the importance of a peaceful and sustainable Earth. Our theme, "The Importance of a Peaceful and Sustainable Earth," embodies the principle of "Public Good," which Nouns values greatly. This year, we aim to invite diverse submissions and offer more people an opportunity to understand the ideals behind Nouns and NounsFes.

## Our Commitment to This Film Festival ⌐◨-◨
While film festivals like the Cannes Film Festival and the Academy Awards are renowned, they're bound by traditional business models, prompting us to perceive a need for a new type of film festival. Information transmission methods vary from text, text and images, sound, sound and images, to video. It is clear that video is the most efficient way to communicate information. We believe that there is a huge future potential in short videos viewed through small smartphone screens, given the inconvenience of VR/AR glasses, despite emerging concepts like "virtual space" or "metaverse."

## Preparations for the 2023 Festival ⌐◨-◨
The first event in 2022 allowed us to introduce the importance of a peaceful and sustainable Earth within Japan via NounsFes. However, we have not yet managed to relay this concept to many who are unaware of Nouns. Hence, this year, we aim to familiarize more people with NounsFes and further disseminate the importance of a peaceful and sustainable Earth, and the principle of "Public Good" that Nouns values.

NounsFes Updates:
- Establishing new submission categories
- Intensifying call for entries
- Implementing a participatory voting system
- Enhancing screenings and award ceremonies

### 1. Introduction of New Categories
This year, we aim to encourage more people to submit more works by introducing new categories such as Short Video, Vertical Short Video, and Super Short Video. The added categories are designed to be easily accessible to anyone using their smartphones.

- **Short Video Category**
The aim is to create 2-3 minute works that evoke emotions and contribute to a better future. The themes are love, peace, or sustainable earth (SDGs).
Example work: [Theme SDGs](https://youtu.be/bQoJqDi8490)
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- **Vertical Short Video Category**
With the same aim and themes as the Short Video Category, this category calls for works that fully utilize the verticality of smartphone-recorded daily life.
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- **Super Short Video Category**
This category calls for works under 60 seconds with the same aim and themes as above, focusing on capturing the viewer's heart in a short time.
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### 2. Strengthening the Collection of Works
Last year, we received around 50 submissions. We are strengthening our efforts to attract more entries. The specific measures are as follows:
1. Introduce new categories (Vertical Short Video and Super Short Video) to make it easier for more people to submit their works.
2. Simplify the application process to ease the burden on applicants.
3. Experiment with various new promotional activities.
* Visit schools and directly approach students aspiring to be creators to encourage them to apply.
* Conduct daily recruitment of submissions through official social media channels.
* Renew the website and regularly update its content to attract more participants.
* Run online commercials to generate interest and encourage applications from a wider audience.
* Actively participate in various events and distribute leaflets to increase awareness.
* Organize a press super-short video contest online to enhance visibility.
* Collaborate with web3 influencers to become ambassadors and promote the event.
* Implement various giveaway campaigns to generate interest and encourage participation.
* Create mechanisms to provide real-time updates on application status and continue information dissemination.
* Maintain ongoing communication and information dissemination to NounsDao and various Nouns sub-DAO members worldwide.
* Utilize audio media and Twitter Spaces to regularly promote events and showcase submitted works. Specifically, collaborate with The NounSquare, a space hosted by pNouns every Friday, to disseminate information globally.

Through these publicity activities, ensure that the objectives of NounsFes are well-known and create an environment where many people submit their works.

### 3. Establishing an All-Participation Voting System
Submitted works will be published on social media platforms (Youtube, TikTok) for review by participants with voting rights.

Last year, we conducted voting using NFTs called "Named Noun" and "Nouns Love" from the collection as voting rights. This year, we will continue using these two NFTs as voting rights and further grant voting rights to NFT holders related to Nouns. This update aims to create a more accessible system for a larger number of people to participate in the voting process.

### 4. Enrichment of Screening and Award Ceremonies
The award ceremony for outstanding works will be held after the screening. As before, we will host real events by renting a movie theater and invite the creators of the nominated works to walk the red carpet.

Furthermore, at the venue, we will distribute/sell Nouns-related merchandise and conduct workshops to promote the various aspects of Nouns and enhance the excitement of the event. Many members of the Nouns proposal 228: NogglesJackTokyo are part of the project team this time. The event held on May 20-21, 2023, was a great success.

Here are some examples of Nouns-related merchandise that were sold at that time.

This is the movie of that time.
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This time, we are accepting submissions from around the world. Attendance at the screening will be from various locations worldwide.
For those who cannot attend the venue on the day of the event, we aim to provide a virtual screening venue in metaverses or other virtual spaces, enabling a larger number of participants to join the screening.


## Schedule ⌐◨-◨
| Event | Date |
| --- | --- |
| Announcement | 2023/6/20 |
| Submission Period | 2023/7/1 - 11/30 |
| Nominee Announcement | 2023/12/10 |
| Final Result Announcement (Screening) | 2023/12/21 (tentative) |

## Budget ⌐◨-◨
### Project Expense Breakdown
| Task Name / Expense | In-Charge Group | Category | ETH | Description |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Planning, Operation, Accounting | Proposal Group | Personnel Expenses | 3.8 | Personnel expenses for planning and operation from May to December(3 members) |
| Website Development | Content Group | Personnel Expenses | 7.5 | Pages for work submission, judge voting, etc.(3 members) |
| Content Management | Work Group | Personnel Expenses | 4.2 | Regulation creation and work management from submission to selection of excellent works(4 members) |
| PR Activities | PR Group | Personnel Expenses | 4.5 | PR coordination, award ceremony operation(4 members) |

**Subtotal for Personnel Expenses:** 20 ETH

| Task Name / Expense | In-Charge Group | Category | ETH | Description |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Event Expenses | PR Group | Expenses | 3.8 | 150,000 yen (theater), Travel and transportation expenses 300,000 yen (awardees), 500,000 yen (others) |
| Gift Expenses | PR Group | Expenses | 1.3 | Implement various gift plans as part of PR activities |

**Subtotal for Expenses:** 5.1 ETH

### Prize Money
- Total: 22.0 ETH
- Short category: Best: 3 ETH x 1, Excellence: 2 ETH x 2, Honorable mention: 1 ETH x 3
- Vertical Short category: 0.5 ETH x 10
- Super Short category: 0.5 ETH x 10
- PR Pre-contest: 0.1 ETH x 20

### Total Budget: 47.1 ETH
(Note: The requested amount for this proposal)

## Organizer
[**Satoshi Nakajima**](https://twitter.com/nounsfes) - Software architect of Windows95 and Founder of Xevo Inc.(Noun245 Owner)

### Supported by:

[**Singularity Society**]((https://www.singularitysociety.org/)) - An organization created to provide entrepreneurs who have the potential to shoulder the next era of Japan and the world with opportunities for study, discussion, information dissemination, networking, and entrepreneurship, and to support them in various ways.

[**NounsDAO JAPAN**](https://twitter.com/NounsDAOJAPAN) - Japanese biggest community of Nouns. Aims to be the community that spreads Nouns the most in the world. Let's embark on an adventure together with Nouns DAO JAPAN.

[**pNouns**](https://pnouns.wtf/) - Japanese SubDAO holding Nouns553,556, including Prop238,300, and various other activities to expand NounsDAO in Japan.

## Appendix: Achievements in 2022 ⌐◨-◨

- **List of Submitted Works**
[https://nounsfes.org/ja/videos](https://nounsfes.org/ja/videos)

- **Award Ceremony and Screening of Excellent Works**
The award ceremony was held on November 27, 2022, at Shin Open Lab in Minato Ward, Tokyo. The screening was held on December 4, 2022, at Toyooka Theater in Toyooka City, Hyogo Prefecture. Toyooka Theater is a historic movie theater that opened in 1927. The screening took place in this historic theater.

- **Best Work**
"How to Build a Solar Kitchen Car"
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- **Prize Money**
The total prize money for the contest was 17.9 ETH (about 4.3 million yen in Japanese yen). The prize money was covered by a 5 ETH Small Grant from Nouns DAO, and by issuing Named Noun and Nouns Love NFTs.

- Named Noun
[https://opensea.io/collection/named-noun](https://opensea.io/collection/named-noun)

- Nouns Love
[https://nouns.love/](https://nouns.love/)

**That's all.⌐◨-◨**