Guidelines
Grade Levels: K-12
Cost: FREE
Prizes: Cash for your school & lots of goodies too!
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Special Categories:
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| California State Parks (NEW to 2010!), Cell Phone Category & 15 others | |
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Categories (keyword for uploading project):
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| ELD/Bilingual Education (keyword: eld) | Fine Arts (keyword: fine) |
| Foreign Language (keyword: forlang) | History/Social Science (keyword: hss) |
| Independent Student Work (keyword: indstu) | Language Arts (keyword: la) |
| Mathematics (keyword: math) | News Show (keyword: news) |
| Physical Education (keyword: pe) | School Information (keyword: schoolinfo) |
| Science and Health (keyword: sciencehealth) | Special Education (keyword: sped) |
| Student Portfolio (keyword: studentport) | Technical Arts (keyword: techarts) |
| Teacher Produced Media Project (keyword: teacherpro) | Thematic (keyword: theme) |
| Video Yearbook (keyword: yearbook) | |
2010 Festival Entries are being accepted February through April 12, 2010
Submission Guidelines:
- Teachers submit all entries. All communication will be sent to the teacher responsible for the entry.
- Avoid submitting multiple similar entries! If you have several examples of the same project or assignment completed by different groups of students, only select your best example for submission.
- Use the appropriate form and enter a project only once.
- Store a complete, high-resolution copy of your project, as this is required for all winning projects.
- Entries must be received by 5pm of the day of the submission deadline.
- Entries must represent work that was completed after April 15 of the previous year.
- Upon submitting your project, your teacher and supervisor will both receive an email containing the media release form that will need to be signed and return to Media Festival officials. This form must be printed and signed by the teacher and the school principal. If students' likenesses are in included in the project, a parent signature may also be required.
- NEW in 2010: All entries will be submitted online using a prefered web hosting partner or other media hosting provider. All entries MUST have a valid, public URL that our judges can access.
- Video entries The CSMF has secured a special channel at schooltube.com for you to use to submit video entries. You must create a free acccount to be eligible to upload videos. When you submit entries, use keyword 'castudentmedia' and the keyword for the category in which you are submitting your project (see list above) to automatically have them appear in our channel. Other video hosting services may be used (Calaxy.org, Teachertube, etc.), but they must be publicly viewable in schools and districts across California.
- Web entries should be hosted on a server of your choice.
- Multimedia entries may be uploaded at any public hosting service, such as Google Docs, as long as they are given a unique, public URL for our judges to view.
- Whatever type of project you submit - upload it and copy your URL BEFORE beginning the process of entering your project(s) in the festival.
- If your project includes copyrighted material - contact festival organizers for a private upload method.
Types of Projects:
- Live Action – The Live Action production type includes full motion productions that generally have on-screen talent in the form of actors, instructors, hosts, or narrators. Often, a computer will be used for titles, credits, overlays, and editing. Cell phone videos fit into this division. Projects encoded in most commonly accepted video will be accepted online.
Examples of live action projects include:
- Public Service Announcements (PSA)
- Documentary
- Music video
- Video yearbook
- News broadcast
- Digital shorts
- A "Sequential Stills" Movie - A sequential stills movie production is a series of images with text, music, video clips and/or narration added that are made into a video or multimedia project. These are oftentimes created in multimedia or movie-making software programs such as iMovie or MovieMaker, PowerPoint, Photo Story, MediaWorks or Hyperstudio. Projects encoded in most commonly accepted video will be accepted online, or uploaded in a single .zip archive.
- Animation – An Animation includes drawn images, clay models, and/or real-life models that are animated to create the illusion of movement. If a piece integrates live action and animation, it falls under the animation production type. Famous examples of integrated animation are the 1945 Gene Kelly film, Anchors Aweigh and 1988’s Who Framed Roger Rabbit. Projects encoded in most commonly accepted video will be accepted online, or uploaded in a single .zip archive.
- Interactive Stills – An Interactive Stills production includes images that are viewed in an order chosen by the viewer. Interactive Stills use navigation buttons and/or menus to enable the viewer to select a path. Text, music, video clips and narration may be incorporated into an Interactive Stills production. Media should be uploaded in a single .zip archive.
- Website – A website is similar to an Interactive Stills however, it must be available on the Internet until November of the festival year. No media will be required but a valid public website address URL must be provided during the submission process. Changes after submission will not be considered during the judging process.
Entry form is available in mid-February of the festival year.