The Festival Director has the right to reassign your video/animation to a different category and/or combine categories for any reason.
Videos/animations which do not conform to these rules will be returned to the production team. The team may correct the problem if the deadline has not passed and re-submit it before the deadline; the movie will be disqualified if the deadline has passed.
Eligibility | Awards | Teams | Number of Entries | Original Entries |No Machinima| School-Appropriate Content | Titles and Credits |Beginning and Ending of Video|Length of Video|Copyright Laws| Must be Your Own Work |Use Proper Spelling and Grammar|Video Formats|File Name
Eligibility
The Video & Animation Festival is open to any Carencro High School Student. AOIT freshmen and non-AOIT students may submit an entry, but all AOIT students in grades 10 – 12 are required to submit an entry.
Awards
The number of awards in each category will be given on the basis of the number of entries: 1st Place only will be awarded for 1 – 4 entries in a category, 1st - 2nd Places only will be awarded for 6 – 8 entries in a category, and 1st - 3rd Places only will be awarded for 9 or more entries in a category.
Teams
Production teams may consist of 1 - 4 students. Only members of the production crew, whose names appear on the submission form, are eligible for the Academy awards; persons who are only actors are not eligible. Additional students may be used as actors but they are NOT eligible for any awards.
Number of Entries
Students are encouraged to submit multiple entries. You may have more than one entry but can enter only one video/animation per category.
Original Entries
The entries must have been composed, taped or animated, edited, and rendered by the production team of record. The entry may have been created at any time but cannot have been submitted to a previous Video & Animation Festival. The animation/video may have been created for a class or school project but cannot be an activity in which all students create the same output.
You may not enter a video capture of video games. The reason is that machinima is the result of a lot of time and effort by professional animators using industry-standard software, and it is unfair to our student animators to include screen captures of high quality professional work that, although not competing against
School-Appropriate Content
Any profanity—even mild cursing—or school-inappropriate language, conduct, or situations in a video or animation will result in the disqualification of your entry. Depiction of violence must be subdued. No blood, guts, or gore. If you have to ask, it's probably too much.
Titles and Credits
All animations/videos must includea title and credits. The official length of the animation/video (the length which determines its length subcategory) will include the complete length of the video, including the title and credits. The following credits are required: title, story/script writer, cinematographer (camera operator), actors, production crew/editors, music, and all programs which were used in making the movie. The credits may not last longer than 5 seconds for short entries and 15 for medium videos.
You must begin and end your video/animation with 2 seconds of black.
Your video/animation cannot be longer than 4 minutes; this includes the 2 seconds of black to begin and end the video and the credits.
You must follow the copyright laws; not doing so will result in the disqualification of your entry. This is particularly important with music. If the music is copyrighted, you may only use 10% of it in your video.
While you are allowed to get advice and tips from anyone, no one except students are allowed to operate the camera, edit the video, create the animations, etc. The movie must be YOUR work.
Use Proper Spelling and Grammar
Your video/animation will be viewed by the public. Misspellings and bad grammar reflect poorly on you and on the Academy and may result in the disqualification of your entry.
Video and animations must be rendered into a high-quality wmv file; no other file types will be accepted. There are instructions on this web site about how to do that in Movie Maker and in Premiere. Make sure that when you render the movie, the audio setting is at 48kHz, not 44kHz. If not, your sound track may be messed up when the movie is burned to a DVD.
To avoid confusion, the title of the video/animation as shown in the video/animation, the title as submitted in the entry form, and the filename must be identical.
