The 2nd Junior World Hit Festival was a non-competitive event, unlike the inaugural edition. (J)WHF organizers, however, decided to reinstate the competitive aspect of the show.
About + How It Works
The Junior World Hit Festival (JWHF) is a kid's song competition modelled after the regular World Hit Festival.
There are a few key differences:
About + How It Works
The Junior World Hit Festival (JWHF) is a kid's song competition modelled after the regular World Hit Festival.
The World Hit Festival (WHF) is a song competition. Each participating nation may enter 1 song and artist into the contest, and it will be performed. Lyrics must be written by the user, thus no instrumental songs are allowed. Users may enter up to 2 more puppet nations, adding to a total of 3 overall.
Later, each nation must vote for their favourites by giving 5 points to their favourite song, 4 points to their 2nd favourite, and so on. Nations are only allowed to get a maximum of 8 points from the user's puppets (meaning that, Nation 1 can receive 4 points from Nation 2 and Nation 3 each, if all 3 nations belong to the same user. Nations 2 and 3 can still receive points from each other.)
Votes are to be submitted by telegram to the host country, who will publish them. Afterwards, a winner will be announced and the current edition of the WHF will end, and signups for the next WHF will be opened.
For the contest, 3 threads will be opened. The first is the Signups/OOC thread, this one. The second is known as a Draft Thread. You will post your performances here. The final one is the IC thread. The host will copy your performances from the Draft Thread. You will be able to post commentary here.
There are a few key differences:
- A maximum of 6 people are allowed on the stage for an entry, all of them must be between 7 and 15 years old on the date of the contest.
- The lyrics in each song must be considered appropriate/reasonable to be song by a person of that age (It's not realistic nor fun to have kids talking about terrorism, sex or the economical crisis, for example).
- At least 50% of the lyrics must be in at least one of the national, regional, or widely-spoken languages of the country it is from (English is not forbidden but will be discouraged if there is another more prominent language spoken in the country, not including ancient/ICly extinct languages).
- ICly, the main authors of the song must be children. Adults are allowed to collaborate or assist (i.e. teaching kids how to write music, or professionally audio mixing the track) but only to an extent (it wouldn't be realistic to have a kid write a song that sounds like it was made by a long-renowned musician). OOCly, it would be advisable to use a tune to a song actually written by children. Examples include any song from the Junior Eurovision Song Contest, which was the inspiration for this competition.
- Unlike the regular World Hit Festival, the host nation is decided by a bidding process.
Schedule
Bid submission closes, voting opens: 24 December 2016Schedule may be subject to change if enough objections are raised.
Voting ends, draft thread opens (posting begins): 31 December 2016
IC thread presented, voting begins: 14 January 2017
Voting announcement (results): by 28 January 2017
Signing up
To sign up, fill the form below. You do not have to have a complete initial sign-up. A post saying that you'll participate is okay, but you'll have to complete the rest eventually. If you want to have a national final, feel free to post it in this thread.
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[box][b]Nation:[/b]
[b]Broadcaster:[/b]
[b]Song title:[/b]
[b]Artist (age in brackets):[/b]
[b]Language(s):[/b]
[b]Title Transcription (if required):[/b]
[b]Title Translation (if required):[/b]
[b]Tune:[/b] [/box]
This form is mostly similar with the one for the regular World Hit Festival, the main differences being that you must stage the age(s) of your entrant(s).
If you want to see an example, scroll down, since experienced nations are more likely to sign up earlier.
Confirmed Nations:
Britonisea
Chameliya: Khushì, by Noming Limbu (15)
Darkmania: Fred i mitt land, by Änna Kisdemin (12)
Eeri: Burning Heart, by Roadrunners (14-15)
Ekoz: Frie (du och jo), by Niko Ingosson (13)
Estogium
Ethane
Fromulya: Kawan, by Dedek Mamah (7)
Izmedu: Obećanje, by Melanija Duvnjak (12)
Kalosia
Kannap
Mercedini: #ComeTogether, by Meia Dobrani (14)
Normandy & Picardy: Les Bruits, by Marie (14), Susanne (13), Anne (15), & Joanne (14)
Skanden: Sogno, by Maria Scaglietti (13)
Tödlichebujoku: Coconut Palm Trees, by Roch Madeira (15)
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