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Healthy Living, Seniors and Consumer Affairs

Create & Rate

An anti-tobacco ad challenge for Manitoba students in grades 5 - 12!

Create & Rate is an extension of the popular Review & Rate program, which engages students to rate the effectiveness of anti-tobacco TV advertising from around the world.

With Create & Rate, you assign or encourage your students to create their own TV ads with anti-tobacco messages. The ads can be serious, funny or somewhere in between, as long as they're built on one of three themes, each of which is outlined in a creative brief:

  • Quitting is worth it!
  • Tobacco smoke ingredients are gross!Cam
  • Tobacco is harmful to your health - and the world, too!

arrow Click here to view and download the creative briefs pdf

Our step-by-step guide assists teachers in helping their students create the ads. It includes:

  • inspiration to get the creative juices flowing
  • three clear, concise creative briefs
  • storyboard direction
  • filming guidance
  • shooting do's and don'ts
  • overview of the "rough cut"
  • final edit suggestions

The guide includes the official contest rules along with suggestions as to how teachers may want to select ads to submit for judging.

arrow Click here to view and download the Create & Rate Guide pdf

Teachers are asked to submit the top three ads from their classroom for judging . A completed official entry form as well as copies of the Actor Release forms must accompany the submission.

arrow Click here to view and download the Official Entry Form pdf

arrow Click here to view and download the Sample Actor Release Form pdf

For ease of viewing by our judging panel, we ask that your students use .mov or mp4 as the format for saving their final video production.

We prefer that the three ads be included on one CD or DVD; however, we will accept three individual discs. Please ensure the name(s) of the student(s) and school appear on a label affixed to the CD of DVD and also on the content of the CD or DVD.

Post the entry no later than March 31, 2012 to:

Create & Rate
Manitoba Healthy Living, Seniors and Consumer Affairs
1010-200 Graham Avenue
Winnipeg, MB R3C 4L5

In mid-April, we'll announce the 10 best ads that students across Manitoba have developed. Then, students are invited to cast their votes at www.mbcreaterate.ca to determine the best of the best! Two grand prizes of an Apple iPad and eight Sony Camcorder runner-up prizes are up for grabs.

For more information about Create & Rate, please contact:

Andrew Loughead
Email: andrew.loughead@gov.mb.ca
Phone: 204-945-4451