mtvU & Cisco Digital Incubator Development Team
 

 

Last fall, mtvU and Cisco Systems set out to find, fund and incubate college students pioneering the future of broadband programming. Outstanding programs were submitted by student groups from across the nation. The ten best were given $250,000 in grants and named to mtvU's inaugural "Digital Incubator" development team. The winning works will roll out on mtvU, mtvU Über and mtvU wireless in the months ahead.

Check the multi-media below for a sneak peek of some of the greenlit programs.

Applications for the second round of mtvU's Digital Incubator grants will be available on-line beginning August 22, 2006. If you're interested in more information or updates regarding the program, please send an email to mukta.chowdhary@mtvnmix.com.

How Do I Say This?
School: UCLA
Concept: Interactive peer-to-peer advice column and online community video project
Synopsis: College students post a dilemma involving a friend or family member they don't know how to address. An online community registers advice, votes on the group's recommendations, and a personalized video is created -- acted out by an animated talking steak, puppet or perhaps costumed actor. The video is sent anonymously to the friend, the friend can respond, and the online community watches as it all plays out.

  How Do I Say This trailer (Windows)

 How Do I Say This trailer (Mac)

SNAGU
School: NYU
Concept: Fully realized camera phone-based scavenger hunt
Synopsis: The game provides a text message “tag” and players hunt for and shoot the image. The pictures are uploaded to a community site where visitors vote on the best shots and the winners are awarded with cool free stuff. The game can be scaled from a single campus to a global competition.

  SNAGU trailer (Windows)

 SNAGU trailer (Mac)

Tower 8
School: Brown University
Concept: A webisodic comic book rock opera
Synopsis: A narrative website that captures the adventures of a band in a world where musicians wield supernatural powers. Tower 8 is a animated rock group that guides users through this alternate reality. The story is told through fully-animated music videos, flash animation, character blogs, tour dates, photos and more.

 Tower 8 trailer (Windows)

 Tower 8 trailer (Mac)

mtvU Surprises the Winners

  Watch the UCLA, Brown University and Pratt Institute teams being surprised with news they've won an mtvU and Cisco Digital Incubator Grant.

 Watch the team from NYU learn they've won a grant for $25,000 to launch SNAGU.


To learn more about the greenlit mtvU and Cisco Digital Incubator programs, read the press release here.

If you are Mac user and are having trouble viewing any of the clips, click here to download the Windows Media Components for QuickTime and try viewing the videos on this page labelled for Windows.


 
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