Short surf film Competition
Sea Sessions is hosting the “Go Big or Go Home” extreme sports film festival in 2011 which will show case the best of extreme sport films from around the Globe. More details will follow on this. As part of this film festival we are having a short surf film competition. The competition is aimed at budding surf movie makers within Ireland. There will be cash prizes for the winners. Below is the entry Guidelines for the shorts. So for your opportunity to reach this audience and be part of the “GO BIG OR GO HOME” family, submit today! Email seasessionssurf@gmail.com with submissions.
Entry Guidelines:
Your film should fit the following criteria
1. Be an amateur production.
2. Be filmed and produced within the past 12months.
3. Be no longer than 10 minutes.
4. Deadline date 1st April 2011
4. Comply with the video formats outlined below.
5. Agree that your film may be utilised in part or in full as a part of promotional activities for the “Go big or go home film festival” & “SEA SESSIONS SURF & MUSIC FESTIVAL”
6. By submitting your film you have agreed to these conditions
These criteria have been put together to ensure that the quality of all submitted films screened at the GBOGHFF & Sea Sessions remains as good as when they were originally edited and are the best possible representation of the artists work.
Here are the technical requirements…
1. Shoot your video footage in the highest quality allowed by your video camera.
2. Shoot, edit and save your footage using 'Progressive Scan', rather than 'Interlaced' video i.e; 480p, 576p, 720p, 1080p and not 480i, 576i, 1080i.
3. Save your video edit in the highest quality possible (the higher the quality you give to us, the better your film will look during the competition).
Formats such as AVI, MOV, MPEG-1, MPEG-2 & MP4 are file 'containers' and have no bearing on the quality of the video or audio. The CODEC used to compress the video and audio is the deciding factor in the final quality. Aim to use the best quality codec you can and with the lowest compression rate.
Examples of high quality video codecs are;
H.264 (also called 'MPEG-4 Part 10' or 'MPEG-4/AVC')
DV (progressive scan)
DivX & XviD (quality should be set to very high/max)
Please try to provide your film entry in the form of a video file and not as a DVD, SVCD, VCD (this will help us to maintain the video quality of your film).
Ultimately, we will accept film entries in any and all video formats. However, ensuring you maintain as much of the original video quality of your footage as possible, can only mean you will have a better chance in the competition.
