Conflict

Conflict is the dark matter at the core of our human experience. If we’re not battling each other, we’re having it out with animals, aliens or Mother Nature. The best storytellers put conflict at the heart of their narratives, and photographers who capture this dynamic always seem to have the most interesting pictures.

Take pictures of conflict and upload them to Lenzr and you could WIN a Blackberry BOLD* 9700 courtesy of Smojoe Social Media Marketing.

Be sure and plant story hooks along with your photos. Use the 140 character text box to include a brief explanation of who and what is fighting, and where and when the joust occurred. People always want to know everything about any kind of struggle, and all the details become meaningful and relevant in context as we wonder who'll win the match?

Voting begins September 20th 2010 - the highest ranked photograph automatically wins prize when the Contest ends October 1st, 2010, must be 13yrs old or older to enter, open to all Canadians, excluding Quebec.

A famous screenwriting coach named John Truby once wrote that (I’m paraphrasing) ‘A story is more than just the documenting of an event, or the relating of a series of events. A story happens when one person or creature does something to another person or creature, and we get to find out why.’

Smojoe fragments client media behind compelling story hooks, pictures and videos with very clickable titles – it’s our methodology to make the audience work to find out why; they assemble our client’s stories in their own heads as they're hooked from platform to platform digesting information in articles, blogs and discussion forums, tweets and Facebook fan page updates. This is the most powerful way to tell stories on the web, especially when you can use social media marketing to garner improved rankings for popular keywords in search engines at the same time.