Video Competition?

geuben · 1 Jun 2009 at 19:41

Evening all,

I had a search and found a thread from a few years back where the idea of a video competition was suggested, I'm guessing nothing came of that. The thread can be found here: http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=17534919&highlight=video+comp

I was wondering if we could reignite the idea? The photo competition seems quite popular so hopefully there are enough people who'd want to try a video one.

The main reason I'd like some form of competition is to get some C&C on my videos as I'm just starting out and want to improve.

Or maybe we could just have a "post your videos here" thread, it would obviously have to be moderated to stop it becoming another youtube clip thread.

anyway, what do the rest of you think?

Geuben

Sirrel Squirrel · 2 Jun 2009 at 10:32

It's a nice idea, I guess we could run it like the Photography competition where you have to make a video based on a theme but obviously video is a lot more time consuming and I don't think many people would see it through to the end but then I could be wrong!

geuben · 2 Jun 2009 at 11:02

I think you may be right, this thread was sort of to see how many people were interested. Judging by the number of replies I don't think we'll get enough to run a successful competition.

As for the time consuming part, yes making a film is likely to be time consuming, but if we have some restrictions in the rules of the competition then it might make a bit easier. We could limit entries to say 1min, then you won't have to spend as much time filming (probably) and it's also a little more challenging as you have a very limited time to do everything you want to do with in your entry. The photography competition is monthly (by the looks of it) and I think a video one should also be monthly, any longer and it might start to get forgotten about and lost in the depths of ocuk.

Anyway, before anything can happen we need to know how many people are interested! There must be some other people.

Geuben

Sirrel Squirrel · 2 Jun 2009 at 11:12

I guess that'd be alright then if we did it monthly, 1 minute max sounds good too.

geuben · 2 Jun 2009 at 11:15

My only worry is that 1min is too short, and it will be too difficult to portray whatever it is that your trying to portray in only 1min, but I'm new to this so who knows.

Dangerous · 2 Jun 2009 at 11:17

Still here and up for it

geuben · 2 Jun 2009 at 11:19

I was hoping you would be. A few things we'd need to sort out are judges and criteria, I have no idea about either so I'll leave that to someone else.

Dangerous · 2 Jun 2009 at 11:20

Yeah I couldnt judge it, maybe on of the photo judges?

Sirrel Squirrel · 2 Jun 2009 at 11:21

We could set a max of 5 mins but I think the 1 minute max is a bit more of a challenge or we could specify a time limit each round.

edit/ I could judge from a technical stand point but not so sure about the creative side.

geuben · 2 Jun 2009 at 11:22

Could a peer reviewed system work? whereby each entrant judges everyone else?

Dangerous · 2 Jun 2009 at 11:22

1-3 mins, I think 5 mins would be too much but depending on the subject look to extend it to 5 mins?

Sirrel Squirrel · 2 Jun 2009 at 11:25

Dangerous said:
1-3 mins, I think 5 mins would be too much but depending on the subject look to extend it to 5 mins?

Yea I'd go with that

geuben · 2 Jun 2009 at 11:27

One other consideration: The photo competition relies on the EXIF data to ensure that you don't submit a photo that you took before the competition date. Would we want such a rule, and if so, how would we know?

Dangerous · 2 Jun 2009 at 11:27

I'm off to Budapest tomorrow so lets get something set and I might be able to get something done out there.

Dangerous · 2 Jun 2009 at 11:31

geuben said:
One other consideration: The photo competition relies on the EXIF data to ensure that you don't submit a photo that you took before the competition date. Would we want such a rule, and if so, how would we know?

Not really possible with video as you encode it to different formats and upload to YouTube etc?

geuben · 2 Jun 2009 at 11:32

Dangerous said:
Not really possible with video as you encode it to different formats and upload to YouTube etc?

True, I guess we'll just have to rely on honesty

A.N.Other · 2 Jun 2009 at 11:33

I'm not sure there'd be enough regular entries to make much of a competition out of it at first. The photography competition has bad months and has recently recovered from a stagnant period of fewer than 10 entries a month. Considering the ratio of photographers:videographers here, and the time required to plan, shoot and edit video, I'm not sure it would be practical.

What I might suggest would be something in-between - perhaps a themed monthly 'post your videos here' thread? There's no reason why you can't have a thread where you can post videos for the current month and discuss the theme for the next month, rather than having it picked. Raising the profile of the videographers might snowball and you could take it from there with a real competition.

Dangerous said:
Yeah I couldnt judge it, maybe on of the photo judges?

I can't speak for the others, but whilst I'd be happy to give it a go, I wouldn't know the first thing about it ...

Sirrel Squirrel · 2 Jun 2009 at 11:33

I think you'd just have to trust people but I don't see much of a problem using existing footage since you still have to edit it into something relating to the subject.

Dangerous · 2 Jun 2009 at 12:06

Yeah lets start out as a monthly fun and see what we can go from there.

Theme ideas then?

geuben · 2 Jun 2009 at 12:08

Well the only time I'm going to have to do much filming this month is in about 2 weeks when I'm on holiday, so I'm bias towards anything that can involve sunshine and sea