How is the natural world around you changing in Minnesota? Bell Museum of Natural History is celebrating the 150th birthday of Minnesota with a long series of events and projects (Minnesota Minute), including a video contest!
content: Share your ideas for protecting your environment, a special natural place in Minnesota and preserving our natural world. Or just tell us why a natural area means so much to you. (30 seconds is great, under 5 minutes required)
eligibility: ?
deadline: Beginning on Earth Day (April 22, 2008) weekly prizes will be awarded through the end of May.
“If you could create a message that would attract recent graduates to careers in local government, what would it be? That’s the question ICMA is hoping students and other creative types with great ideas will want to answer in the “Next Gig” video contest. … As the wave of baby boomers leaves local government, ICMA and other organizations are developing a range of programs and activities designed to educate and attract young professionals to careers in local government.”
eligibility: for over 18, US residents content: create a commercial that will be compelling enough to recruit graduates to local government. prize: professional-level digital camcorder, etc. deadline: June 1
more info: http://www.icmatv.com/video_competition/
via: http://icma.org
Get Smart comedy is advertising itself with a series of mini comedies featuring you phoning your shoe…
Anyway, this is one of the best viral video contest ideas this year so far, I think. It’s short (15 sec), very viral and can be funny. Like this guy:
In the original show, .Maxwell Smart’s (aka Agent 86) had a built in rotary-dial telephone in his shoe that he would use to contact CONTROL. The best part – not only would it actually ring, but it required a dime to place a call
content: make a 15 second video of yourself answering your own shoe phone and post it on YouTube
Maxwell Smart (Steve Carell) is on a mission to thwart the latest plot for world domination by the evil crime syndicate known as KAOS. When the headquarters of U.S. spy agency CONTROL is attacked and the identities of its agents compromised, the Chief (Alan Arkin) has no choice but to promote his ever-eager analyst Maxwell Smart, who has always dreamt of working in the field alongside stalwart superstar Agent 23 (Dwayne Johnson). Smart is partnered instead with the lovely-but-lethal veteran Agent 99 (Anne Hathaway). Given little field experience and even less time, Smart—armed with nothing but a few spy-tech gadgets and his unbridled enthusiasm—must thwart the doomsday plans of KAOS head Siegfried (Terence Stamp).
Do you think making commercials is easy? Here’s your chance for making a truly creative and motivating one for iRise, a provider of visualization software for business applications.
Eligibility: for over 18 US residents
content: 30 to 60 second commercial about iRise
prize: first place video receiving $15,000 and two semi-finalists receiving $2,500 each
In cooperation with the Wright Museum of World War II History (Wolfeboro, NH), Big Y Foods (Springfield, MA), Market Basket (Tewksbury, MA), the Manchester City Library (Manchester, NH), and other New England businesses, nonprofits and community groups, the U.S. Navy Leadership Challenge invites you to use your creative video force to produce a short film about your “Hometown Hero.”
eligibility: New England high school students between 15 and 18
prize: two-day, all-expenses-paid trip to a Navy installation on the East Coast in June 2008.
This is a small scale video contest, but a very charming one for those who like keeping beautiful aquarium fishes. Here are the video entries from the previous contest.
Content: you can choose from 4 different themes:
– A tip or trick you use to help with your aquarium
– Tour of your equipment and the role each piece plays
– Your maintenance routine
– A frag technique you have been successful with
– A DIY project related to your tank
Prize: a Seachem Pinnacle+ Reverse Osmosis™ 100 GPD RO/DI Filter Eligibility: register as 3reef.com member Deadline: May 12 2008 Further info:3reef.com
One video from the first video contest of 3Reef
Falcon Productions announces its first ever Instant Video Contest.
Content: “What would it look like if presidential candidates McCain, Clinton, and Obama were contestants on American Idol?”Impersonations are fine, as are standup routines. Videos can concentrate on one, two, or all three candidates.
Prize: $500 for the funniest video, and every video properly submitted will receive a press release.
where to publish? vids should be posted to a universally accessible site, such as Break.com, Metacafe.com, or YouTube. The link to the site must be sent to Falcon Productions by email by April 22, 2008 at midnight. All decisions of the judges are final.
Once in a while most of us give in and buy something irresistibly silly, useless, expensive, whatever. No matter how strong resistance you could show for a couple of days/ weeks/ months. Here’s your chance to share your shopping confession in a video contest organized by eBillme.
Content: Create a video of your shopping confession. Your video will show the world what you bought, who it was for, and why you hid it. Tell us how your secret was finally revealed (or maybe this is the first time it will be). If you got caught in the act, we want to know what happened and how you tried to get out of it.
Deadline: the vid competition runs throughout 2008, until Dec 26!
Prize: eBillme is giving away $1,500 in cash or prizes EVERY month for the entire year in 2008, and a GRAND PRIZE of $15,000 (unlike their Prize page, the official rule says $1000 per month!)
Here’s the winner in February from Christine Kearcher (it’s about her embarrassing Valentine’s Day shopping confession)
and the video contest winner in January from Craig Kerfoot (about his embarrassing Xmas present to is parents)
So as you can see, both users used a very simple video shot and narrative to win $1,500!
Last time I wrote about SAS internal video contest, and this time it’s another major corporate internal video competition – for IBMers.
The topic of the video contest is how green IBM employees are, what they do to live a more eco-friendly life.
In an effort to inspire IBMers to learn how to shoot, edit and publish audio and video, and in an effort to get them using our internal Media Library (for publishing, tracking, subscribing etc), our team has launched a few media contests over the years. Nothing like an opportunity to create fun content mixed with the promise of cool prizes to get people worked up and participating. These contests work here at IBM, and accomplish all of the above while also getting employees thinking about the particular issues buried in the themes of these seemingly innocent games.
If you are a high school student who happens to have a favorite teacher, take your camcorder and feature her/ him.
Content: show how your high school teacher affects your life in a positive way.
Eligibility: high school students from Lawrence, Scioto, and Gallia counties in Ohio, Cabell, Wayne and Putnam counties in West Virginia and Boyd, Greenup, Carter, Lewis, Elliot, Fleming, Lawrence, Rowan and Mason counties in Kentucky.
Deadline: April 29 2008
Prize: the winning teacher will receive an amazing prize, & his or her classes will also be treated to a pizza party.
Video Contests that Rock 