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@taku0x - entered 4 rounds - Farcaster

ZAOstock Round 4 - Make An Ad, 30 Seconds Or Less

@taku0xclaim 8332

ZAOstock

https://farcaster.xyz/taku0x/0xfe874bc4
Notes: A locked footer on every frame, and you named the acts.

720x1280 vertical with audio and captions throughout. A footer runs on every frame sampled carrying SATURDAY OCTOBER 3, ELLSWORTH MAINE, Franklin Street Parklet, Free, All ages and Rain or shine, so the facts survive a repost. You also named four of the acts on screen and credited the logo to attabotty, and you posted to both Farcaster and X.

The festival's name is not in the banner that repeats. ZAOSTOCK is in the tiled watermark and on the closing card, but not in the footer that runs the whole way. So a frame grabbed from the middle carries the date, the place, FREE and the parklet - everything except what the event is called. Adding the one word to that footer would close it.

It measured 30.046621 seconds against a thirty second rule. Over by about one frame, on the file as X serves it rather than as you exported it. It was ruled inside, because X re-encodes every upload and holding it out would have enforced the limit against the encoder rather than against you. Worth knowing the rule has an edge and you landed on it: the safe target for a thirty second limit is about twenty-eight.

It carries the whole festival, and the brief asked for one thing. Come through, the date, the place, the lineup by name, and the after-party. Each part is well made. The brief's argument is that thirty seconds forces a choice and an advert picks one thing to land - the piece that does everything is competing with itself for the same three seconds.

ZAOstock Round 3 - Anything But A Poster

@taku0xclaim 8145

ZAOstock

https://farcaster.xyz/taku0x/0xddeb25f3
Notes: The idea lands in ten seconds and the end card carries the facts.

A phone, ANOTHER WEEKEND?, then a moose on guitar, a moose on drums, a herd running down a street, THE MOOSE KNOW. It is a real idea, the look holds together, and the end card uses the real ZAOstock mark with October 3, Ellsworth Maine, FREE, ALL AGES and RAIN OR SHINE on it. You also heard that your last entry had an editor watermark, removed it, and re-posted the clean version the same day without being asked twice.

Nobody watching this can find the stage. There is no venue, no time and no URL anywhere in it. A viewer comes away knowing the day and the town and still cannot work out where to stand or when to arrive. Franklin Street Parklet and noon to six are two short lines on the card you already built.

Generated footage has to earn the thing only footage can do. The brief asked for the piece only you would make, and a generated moose is available to everyone who types the same prompt. Where your work has actually stood out is the writing and the discipline - your captions carried the whole event when other entries did not. A generated shot works hardest when it does something a camera cannot, rather than standing in for one.

Make one piece of media for ZAOstock

@taku0xclaim 8104

ZAOSTOCK

https://x.com/0xcryt29/status/2102367081295405536
Notes: Your post copy was complete and you fixed the flaw before anyone asked you to.

The caption carried everything a reader needed and you tagged correctly on both platforms. Then you heard that the editor watermark was a problem, removed it, and re-posted the clean version the same day without being asked. That is the part of this that is hardest to teach.

Export without the editor's mark. The CapCut corner stamp was burned into the frame. It puts somebody else's brand on our festival in every repost, and on a free tier it is usually one export setting or a few seconds of trim away.

Upload a frame of the piece rather than a picture of the post. poidh only takes images, so a still is the right thing to upload for a video - but the still it received was a photo of your X post, complete with the view count and the reply box. A frame from the video itself shows the work. The link in your description is what gets watched either way.

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