Miss Idaho Falls Scholarship Program

Guidelines and Requirements

The time limit for talent presentation at Miss Idaho Falls is ninety (:90) seconds. Nothing longer will be accepted, and this will be strictly enforced! Contestants should plan a performance that will not exceed this limit. Judges will be informed immediately if a contestant runs over her allotted time. Each judge will then use this information to assist in determining his/her score of the contestant’s talent competition.

 

When creating talent presentations, you may not use original master works. All audio elements must be original.

 

Accompanying Oneself with a Pre-recorded Tape

A contestant may pre-record herself as a back-up vocalist or instrumental accompanist and use that tape to accompany her live talent performance. However, it cannot be announced to the judges that the accompaniment tape contains any performance by the contestant. She will be judged solely on what she is doing live, and no exceptions will be made to this. A talent cannot be performed electronically (i.e. video tape) or with live accompaniment.

 

Tape Enhancements

Regardless of the talent performed, the background CD cannot have voices, instruments, or other noises which mimic the talent of the contestant. (Example: A vocalist may have background vocals with “oohs and aahs” but can not have a CD containing any background lyrics or a voice singing the melody line for the contestants to sing along with. The same would be said for instrumentalists, dancers, and any other talent which could provide for an unfair advantage if a judge could not delineate from the talent on the track versus the live performance of the contestant.

 

Double Talents

If a contestant wishes to perform a double talent, i.e. singing and dancing, or singing and piano playing, she must do both live on stage. She will only be judged for what is done live. For example, if a contestant danced to a pre-recorded tape of herself singing, she would only be judged on her dancing. If she sang on stage and performed a dance segment with it, she would be judged both on singing and dancing.

 

Talents Involving Original Work or Material

Any contestant who plans to present a talent act that involves prior original work on her part; i.e. own painting, dressmaking, music arrangement, song writing, dramatic reading, etc., must have notarized authentication that she created that work if she wishes to receive credit for the same. The National Office will require this authentication. This responsibility will rest with the contestant and her director.

 

Additional Talent Guidelines

• Talent is reserved on a first-come, first-serve basis and there are no duplication of talent acts among contestants.

• A contestant many not include in a vocal medley, the same song another contestants is planning to sing as a solor or as poart of a different medley. The same song, however, may be played on a musical instrument by another contestant or used as accompaniment for dance.

 

Stage Props

Any article brought on stage must actually be NEEDED as non-functional props from the live performance.

• No mood setters or background enhancers

• No props that imitate those used in a Broadway or screen version of the selected talent

• No props that require excessively large stage areas and/or complicated set up

• No use of motion pictures, slides or projection of any kind

• No live animals

• No props involving safety hazards, such as any form of fire, swords, knives, bow and arrows, etc.

• No lighting enhancements

 

No props are permitted unless absolutely functional!

 

Talent Tips

• Choose a talent that you feel comfortable doing.

• Ask “Can I communicate the message of the talent with the audience and the judges with ease and confidence?”

• Be an entertainer! Whether you are performing a classical sonata or a jazzy dance, you must remember that your audience wants to see a show. Move, smile, express yourself and get lost in your expression.

• Make yourself unique.

• Practice the hardest parts over and over and over again, so that when you perform them on stage, they are the very ones that seem the easiest.

• Videotape yourself beforehand, on stage, so you know how you move and you know when to smile. A brilliant flash of a smile at the right moment can captivate your audience. No matter what, be in control.

• Mistakes will not be noticed by the majority of those who watch. So pretend they didn’t happen, even if they do. Smile, keep going, act as if it was all planned. You ar a professional, and you are confident in your skills, above all.

Have Fun….if you are, the audience will too.