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So, our MOOvie competition has come to a close and the judging begins! We've had some great entries, from stop-frame to live action, informative to fun. Many thanks to everyone who entered - either by making a MOOvie, or starring in one!

These are the entries we've received:

Andy Piper kicked things off with his Making a Mosaic Frame tutorial. (For those who don't know, we're making some exciting changes to the frame, which should be in final production in a few months time!) Andy then went on to produce two more MOOvies, MiniCards in Stop Motion and a super speedy look at Ordering MOO Cards in Three Minutes!

Marina created a film about, Life as a Graphic Designer, with help from friends large and small. This resonated well with our own graphics team - although of course, we've never experienced those frustrations here ;o)

Shahab Zargari hunted high and low for a MOO Sticker with a little help from her high pitched (cute!) friend, Mahtab Zargari, while James Alliban wowed everyone with this Augmented Reality Business Card.

John Arnold impressed us all with his neat idea for Decorating a netbook with your own photograph using MOO stickers - we've rarely come across a more patient man!

The three , different songs by Mark Bethune took us a little by surprise,  but we danced our way back down to earth with Vincent Lee's catchy little video,MOOving Around The World.

Mo Riza entered twice, once with this great MOO Cards in NYC underground clip, taking photographic MiniCards back to their original location, and once with a very relaxing MiniCards on the beach video.

Nine year old Anna Dale made this wonderful Moo Shoo stop frame animation featuring some rather cute typography, while The McIntyre's also went for stop frame animation of epic proportions! (We loved the music on this one too).

Alchemation Studios produced the only computer animated entry, while Marty Dunlop managed to convince his very understanding friends to star in his film First Impressions.

Last but not least, Geoff made us all smile with his film One Million Moo's, based around the many uses for a MiniCard holder! (We loved the icecream substitution for the wine in MOO's own MiniCard holder video!)

All together, much fun has been had by all - now we just need to find a winner. It's over to our judges for now, but stay tuned, and we'll let you know asap.

Thanks again to all who entered - we hope you had a s much fun making, as we've had watching.

We wanted to share one of the first entries made in to MOO's MOOvie Mania Competition because it really spoke to us. It's entitled: Life as a Graphic Designer by Marina. Given we have a few graphic designers on the team and a few of us have worked in agencies in the past, we particularly related to this tell-it-like-it-is account of a day in the life of a graphic designer.  You'll note the nod to MOO's MiniCards at about 2 min 24sec in. The logo created by the client is worth highlighting. Don't you agree, it's just brilliant?

Life as a Graphic Designer

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If you are submitting a MOOvie, don't forget to include the tags "moovie mania" and "business cards" when you post your video to either YouTube, Flickr or Dailymotion. That'll help us group them together later on. If you need them, all the rules (written in plain English) can be found here.

Adding Music to Your MOOvie
As we all know movies can be 100x better with music and sound effects. Think of Jaws without the famous Na-Na. Na-Na. Na-Na. But, where do you find all those great effects and music? We have few suggestions that might come in handy. If you have more, please leave in the comments.

Our friends at iStockphoto have an entire library of royalty-free music and every sort of sound effect submitted by their contributors. They are an inexpensive source and have offered any MOOvie Maker a 15% discount on 26 credits or more until the end of July. Just include the  the  code MOOvie on checkout for your discount.

There’s also lots of great music available with a Creative Commons license that won't get you in trouble for copyright infringement.
 If you do use background music, per CC licensing requirements, you'll need to attribute the music you use by mentioning and linking to the artist, or the CC page you found it on.

Here are some online resources (thanks to ccmixter