YouTube competition to promote Digital Life Expo

Posted by Jennifer Kruger on May 20, 2010 · Leave a Comment

The Bring Your Photos to Life Competition 2010 calls for those with an interest the imaging industry and video production to help get a message across. By creating and sharing short videos with the message ‘bring your photos to life’ across the internet, this competition hopes to encourage consumers and users of digital cameras to do more with their photographs than just leave them on the hard drive.

Entrants must create and submit a video expressing the message “bring your photos to life,” encouraging viewers and consumers to do more with their digital photographs. Get consumers excited about developing prints and more. It is important to get the message across, but be creative.

To enter:

    * Make your video
    * Upload it to YouTube.com and tag that video with “BYPTL Competition 2010”
    * Send an email to iDigital Darwin with the subject: Bring Your Photos To Life 2010 Submission. Include your name, country, title of your video submission and the link to your submission on Youtube.

There are many messages and topics that can be expressed in submission videos. Here are a few subjects entrants may want to include in submissions:

* Developing photos is fast, easy and inexpensive

* Developed photos are more meaningful than digital files

* There are many more things you can do with your images than just print photos, like scrapbooking, mouse pads, mugs, T-shirts, hats, stickers, enlargements, photo books, etc.

As joint organizers of the contest, PICA and PMA retain the right to use submissions in any way they see fit in association with this competition. However, the joint organizers recognise the rights of the authors to retain full ownership of their copyright with regard to other use of their submissions.

Submit your video any time before August 5. Entries will be judged by Most Views, Peer Polling, and scored by a panel of judges.

First prize is US$3,000. Second prize is US$1,500, and third prize is  US$500.

All entrants must have all ownership rights pertaining to his or her submission. Submissions must not contain offensive, gratuitously violent, or pornographic material. Entrants may submit multiple submission videos, but only the highest scoring one may be considered for judging.

More information is available here

http://idigitaldarwin.wordpress.com/2010/05/14/byptl_video_competition/