Wants Your Video!
Contest Rules
Contest opens April 1 and closes May 1, 2008. To enter, you must be currently enrolled as a Stony Brook University undergraduate. Winning videos will be judged by a panel of students and other members of the Stony Brook Community.
Stony Brook University reserves the right to edit any and all submitted videos and use videos in future promotional material, with appropriate production credit. All entries will be screened by Stony Brook University before they are posted. Stony Brook University reserves the right to remove any posted videos at any time. By submitting video via the link below, you are agreeing to the stated contest rules.
Videos will be posted on YouTube. All YouTube rules and restrictions on posting videos also apply, including which file types can be uploaded. Videos should be no shorter than 30 seconds and no longer than 60 seconds in length.
Content of each project is at the discretion of participants, but should reflect positively on the Stony Brook University. Judges reserve the right to disqualify any project that contains images of graphic sex or violence.
You must have rights to any music used in projects. No more than 30 seconds may be used for any song protected under copyright. It is permissible to use pre-recorded music (e.g., royalty-free music, a friend's band's music), but you must include a signed release with the submission.
Submit your video between April 1 and May 1 to the YouTube group SBContest: www.youtube.com/group/sbcontest. You will need to create a YouTube account and join the group.
A note from YouTube on Uploading video: "YouTube accepts a wide range of video file formats such as .WMV, .AVI, .MOV, and .MPG transferred from most digital cameras, camcorders, and cell phones. We've found that files converted from .wmv to one of the other formats our webpage accepts generally have a lower playback quality than other file formats. If you have your source video in a format other than a .wmv file, you may want to encode directly to MPEG4 (DivX, Xvid, SVQ3) at 640x480 resolution, with 64k Mono MP3 Audio. If you have a source .wmv in high bitrate and larger resolution you may want to convert to MPEG4 at full resolution and then resizing to 320x240 using a high quality resizing algorithm - this can help reduce the number of artifacts you end up with."
Once you have uploaded your completed video to YouTube.com, send an e-mail with the subject line "Contest Entry" to Jacob.Levich@stonybrook.edu and include the following information: