muvipix 2008 Video Contest!

[Doreen L.]

Congratulations to you Chuck, Steve, Ron, etc. for putting together what I think are a very fair set of rules for this year's contest. I'm looking foward to seeing the entries. Good luck to everyone!!!

[Chuck Engels]

A couple more questions, please:Can you enter 2 projects in 1 category?
The 30 and 60 sec time, does that mean no 33 sec or 45 secs? Is this like a commercial where the networks sell only 30 or 60 sec spots? Which this would be a good challenge.

Yes, you can enter as many videos as you want to but you can't enter one video in more than one category.

This is a commercial, they are 30 seconds or 60 seconds exactly. Again, that is part of the challenge
I wrote and produced radio commercials for a year before becoming an announcer full time. It isn't easy coming up with 60 seconds of material, for some things 30 seconds is tough.

[Chuck Engels]

Congratulations to you Chuck, Steve, Ron, etc. for putting together what I think are a very fair set of rules for this year's contest. I'm looking foward to seeing the entries. Good luck to everyone!!!

Thanks Doreen

[Gooder]

Chuck, what are the rules on entering a video that was not taken (shot) my me?

I do not mean using scenes, or any part from TV, films, or any other media source!
If it helps, I did ask for certain shots, angles to be taken but I was not the person behind the camera on the day of the shoot!

Trust me to come up with a question like that

Thanks,
Lee

[Chuck Engels]

Chuck, what are the rules on entering a video that was not taken (shot) my me?
I do not mean using scenes, or any part from TV, films, or any other media source!
If it helps, I did ask for certain shots, angles to be taken but I was not the person behind the camera on the day of the shoot!
Trust me to come up with a question like that
Thanks,
Lee

This is a editing contest Lee so we don't really care who shot what where
The contest is about the editing and what you do with what you have.
If you can reduce Lawrence of Arabia to 2 minutes and make it interesting, more power to you !

[Gooder]

Lawrence of Arabia, how did you know I was entering that?

Thanks for that, Chuck
Lee

[Maxine370]

One more question...I promise. Well 2 in one post.

I have a wedding recap edit I'd like to enter but it runs long. I can't decide which half I think is the best representation so could I split it into 2 videos and enter them separately? Each as a standalone would be 2 minutes or under.


For the commercial entry, does the product (well place) have to be accurately represented by the images. If I plan to advertise a spa resort, do the images have to be of the spa or can I use other images?


Can't wait to see the entries. I know I'm going to get a lot of good material to inspire me with this one.

[Chuck Engels]

Hi Beth,
As long as the two parts are different you can enter them both, you can enter as many videos as you want to.

The commercial is a commercial, you decide how it should look, what it should say, and what point you want to get across.
However you do it is just fine with us.

[cdeemer]

Chuck wrote, "(telling a story and having a plot are kind of the same thing anyway)"

Ouch. One of the things I really emphasize in my screenwriting class is the difference between STORY and PLOT! But that's specialized stuff, right? I think in common parlance, most would agree with you. But scriptwriters need to know the difference, I think.

(In simplistic terms, a plot answers "what happens next?" and a story answers, "what's the point?")

[Chuck Engels]

Thank you for setting me straight Charles, I should really know better than to lump them into the same thing

[jackfalbey]

In simplistic terms, a plot answers "what happens next?" and a story answers, "what's the point?"

I read that line, Charles, and I swear I heard Chris Huntley's voice narrating it in my head!

[cdeemer]

Do you have to write the material yourself? For example, can you make a video from the script for a 30 sec commercial that someone else wrote, which of course you'd credit?

[Chuck Engels]

You can use any material you want to Charles, it is the editing and overall content that will be judged.
Anyone can do a remake of an existing commercial if they think that they can do a better job

[millerc2]

As for the Slide Show category: Am I allowed to use .Gifs and moving clip art set on-top of still pictures? Also, can I make picture A and B move across picture C so it looks like an animation, but it's just all still photographs?

And for the music: I'm allowed to use songs from my cd collection (I legally bought and own the cds)?

[Chuck Engels]

As for the Slide Show category: Am I allowed to use .Gifs and moving clip art set on-top of still pictures? Also, can I make picture A and B move across picture C so it looks like an animation, but it's just all still photographs?

And for the music: I'm allowed to use songs from my cd collection (I legally bought and own the cds)?

You can do anything you like and use whatever music you want to use (at your own risk).
If we are asked (by the music police) to pull the slideshow because of the music we will have to do that and the video would have to be disqualified.
I doubt that will happen however. The slideshow is a video created out of still images, however you do this is up to you, the more interesting and imaginative the better