1) The contest is open to all NS members, be they orange, blue or pink names. Pros and no-names are welcome, competition brings out the best of people's abilities!
2)Filming/editing round will last for three (3) weeks.
3) Videos should be no longer than two (2) minutes long. Videos posted longer than that will be excluded. Video/links to videos should be posted in initial round thread. Please upload all your videos to Vimeo (recommended) or Youtube. We encourage you to go out and make new videos for each week and not post a previous work. It is hard for something you have already done to meet the topic explicitly but if you have something already, go for it!
4) After the initial three weeks, videos will be posted into a public voting thread to narrow down to the top 5. this voting will last for one (1) week.
5) After the final 5 are chosen, a panel of five (5) judges will choose the winner
6) This panel of judges will consist of hansel, myself (Jamie), the previous week's winner, and two other guest judges
7) Each judge will rate each video from the one they think is best fit to win to least. Things judges will consider are 1) relevance to the topic 2) creativity and 3) quality of the work
8) Each winner will NOT be allowed to participate in the next contest, but WILL chose the next topic, and be a judge for the next round
The first topic to discuss will be: EARTH
Seeing that tomorrow (4/22/10) is the 40th anniversary of Earth Day, it is fitting that our first topic should focus on the planet we live on. We are well aware of the fact that you cannot create a discovery channel series in three weeks, but that's not what we are looking for! We would like to see you get out and film your local habitat and show us what makes where you live unique. Be it the radical cliffs you live near, biodiversity in your back yards, or rolling hills and grassy plains, we want you to show us what slice of earth you live on. Now grab your and start filming!
--Jamie and Hansel
