RTP, the Portugal broadcaster of Junior Eurovision Song Contest announced rules for the portugal national selection on 29/6.
The main points are:
1. The age of the participants must be between 10-15.
2. The childrens who want to participate have two months to write and compose original songs and send it to RTP channel.
3. After, twelve songs will performed in the live portuguese final.
4. The winner will be choosen via televoting system
All the rules translated from Portuguese channel:
FESTIVAL OF THE SONG JÚNIOR 2007 It consults the regulation and it participates! The Festival of the Junior Song is in return with the 2007 edition! If you are a young talent you do not wait more, consults the regulation the low e participates!
REGULATION
1. The Festival of Song JUNIOR 2007 has for objectivo to promote talentos young in the area of fast music, as well as the apuramento of one of them to represent the RTP in the Eurovisão Festival of Song JUNIOR 2007 to carry through in day 8 of December in the city of Roterdão in Holland.
2. 1 of July enters and 31 of August of 2007, the RTP goes to open national competition for selecção of 12 songs and respective interpreters who will go to constitute one end in great format of espectáculo of television. This end it will leave a winner who will represent the RTP in the Eurovisão Festival of Song JUNIOR 2007 in Holland.
3. The competition is opened the young that until day 8 of December of 2007 has ages understood between 10 and 15 years.
4. The authors of the songs (letter and music) will have to participate in the interpretation of the song as singers or musicians and therefore to also have ages understood between the 10 and 15 years in day 8 of December of 2007.
5. Each song cannot have more of the one than eight young in palco.
6. Each song cannot exceed the two minutes and forty and five seconds (2 ' 45' ') and must have a minimum duration of two minutes and thirty seconds (2' 30' ').
7. the letter of the song must be written and be interpreted in Portuguese.
8. The songs will only be considered whose letter and music never have been commercially edited, published or interpreted in public.
9. O(s) intérprete(s) will have to concur with a song (letter and music) with mixed voice and whose register could be amateur or half-professional. The support of the song the competition will have to be COMPACT DISC.
10. O(s) intérprete(s) will have to also send the letter of the song in digital support (COMPACT DISC) and a photocopy of its Ticket of Identity.
11. O(s) intérprete(s) will still have, together with the COMPACT DISC of the proposal of its song, to deliver to a DVD with actuação in Karaoke of a subject any to its choice where they are salient you endow them vocal and the interpretation. This writing must be amateur with quality.
12. To be able to correspond to the rules of the European Broadcasting Union for the Eurovisão Festival of the Song, the RTP will have to be detainer of some respeitantes rights to the winning song, in the national and international scope.
13. The selecção of the 12 finalistas songs will be carried through by a jury consisting of the RTP.
14. The voting in the 12 finalistas songs for apuramento of the winning song will be carried through by the process of "televoto".
15. To each song a telephone number will be attributed and will be successful the one that to get the biggest call number.
16. In the case of two or more songs to be with equal call number in the first place, the sattle of matter will have to become through private voting for the remaining interpreters, being been valid each interpreter or each song a vote. If to persist ties up to it, the final classification will be determined for the vote of the interpreter new.
17. After seleccionadas the 12 finalistas songs, these will be produced by a musical producer chosen by the RTP.
18. After produced, 12 musics will have to be mixed with the respective secondary voices (it will be case of this) resulting in one play back without main voices. The main voices will have obligatorily to enter in direct in the program.
19. All the instruments that will be in palco the order of the authorized interpreters and for the RTP cannot only be amplified, serving as adereços.
20. The young artists can already have actuado the ground as main interpreters or of support in a produced COMPACT DISC professionally, or can already have professionally been represented. They can have little signed a contract of writing for one edition single before this Festival of the Song, but this contract cannot afectar the cession of rights intended by the RTP.
21. The RTP will have to receive from the parents or people in charge of education of the authors of the song a declaration certifing that the song is original, that commercially was never edited, published, or interpreted in public and that was composed for the young artist.
22. Event during the assays is not allowed to the presence of the in charge parents/of education in the place it, nor in palco at any moment. In the last general assay with wardrobe and in the proper program, the in charge parents/of education will be able to attend espectáculo in place to assign for the production.
23. In the direction to preserve image of the young winning artists, the RTP, in the 12 following months to the Festival, she is detainer of its rights of image, having of being consulted for any share of commercial scope that with them if he intends to make.
24. He fits to the RTP to guarantee clothes to each intervening finalista.
25. All the intervening ones of palco of the winning song are obliged to participate in the Eurovisão Festival of the Song Junior 2007 in Roterdão in Holland between 1 and 9 of December. 26. During this period and as prémio, the RTP will support the trips and the stays of all the elements of palco of the winning song, including a companion for element.
27. They will not be able to concur familiar of employees of the pertaining companies for group RTP, duly warned disqualification of the song.
28. Any insult of the present regulation can take to the disqualification of the song the competition, after duly appreciated for the RTP. Omissive questions in this regulation will be evaluated and determined by RTP
29. The proposals of songs (COMPACT DISC), karaokes (DVD), the letter of the song (COMPACT DISC) and the photocopy of the Ticket of Identity must be sent stop:
RTP Festival of the Junior Song 2007 Department of Programs Recreativos Av. Marshal Gomes of the Coast, nº37 1849 - 030 LISBON
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