Tyro TV: a Site for Emerging Television and Filmmakers

Tyro: A beginner in learning anything; novice.
With cheaper and easier ways to create content and distribute (especially through online mechanisms like YouTube and Vimeo) there will be a lot of Tyro Film makers out there.
As Tyro filmmakers we want to get involved in competitions in order to express ourselves and hopefully win something to take our dreams to the next level. Yet the stumbling block is the gathering of content footage. Either we get stuck on the planning stage, trying to figure out what to film or we can’t get organized to actually film the content.
Tyro, looks to make the process even easier for new film makers to get going – they provide the content for you. You just take the tools that you have and make the film, submit and then you are done:

The site is called Tyro TV (http://www.TyroTV.com) and we are sponsoring a new kind of online film festival/contest. We give young filmmakers a topic and everything they need to create their own movie — video, music, and sound effects. Then let them create the best short film they can using these materials. Because everyone’s using the same “building blocks,” contestants will be judged not by their budget but on their creativity and storytelling abilities.

Our first competition is called “The Marijuana Mash-Up.” For this contest, we’re asking contestants to “mash up” (that is, creatively condense and re-edit) an hour’s worth of hilariously dated drug education films from the 50s and 60s to create a short campaign commercial that convinces people to vote for or against legalizing marijuana.

The contest is motivated by the California initiative that’ll be on the ballot this fall, but young filmmakers across the country have passionate views on this issue, to say the least! We’ll be naming finalists late in the summer and a winner just before the election.