Open video

As part of ongoing curation of great open video for children, OLPC and Intelligent TV are working together to get archives of science videos to share their treasures with the world... and to get videographers to make new shorts out of existing open collections.

Science Video Remix Competition

One Laptop per Child
       and
Intelligent Television
are pleased to announce the
2008 Science Video Remix Competition

Rules and details at: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Open_video

The Science Video Remix Competition aims to promote the use of archival scientific video material for education around the world and to inspire children to become videographers themselves. The competition encourages innovative producers to post and share scientific video material for young audiences (8 to 16). An international panel of judges will award prizes for the best contributed archives on February 15, 2008.

A second stage of this contest will launch in 2008 for the best short films made from these archives.

Entry deadline

• for contributed archives : February 1, 2008
• for short films : April 5, 2008

Grand prize

• $2,000
• an OLPC laptop
• producer material featured on laptops around the world.

Submission details:

Producers should provide a one-paragraph description of the video content to the 2008 contest administrator by e-mail at cjv@intelligenttv.com. The description should detail the following:

• the number of minutes/hours of video
• a brief description of subject material in the video
• a description of when and where the video material was produced
• details about whether the material has been distributed/broadcast previously and where/when

Upon administrator confirmation of receipt, the producer will be asked to upload submitted video to the Internet Archive at http://www.archive.org (the upload button is on the upper right-hand corner of the site). At least 5 hours of video must be contributed by February 1, 2008, to be eligible for the grand prize. Regarding rights and permissions, preference will be given to producers who indicate that their archives will be open to remix with the broadest possible licenses at:

http://creativecommons.org/license/

Contest entries will be judged based on the following criteria:

• Overall video and audio quality. The material must be suitable for remixing and appropriate for internet delivery.
• Levels of engagement. The material must be appropriate and interesting to 8- to 16-year-olds.
• Capacity for subdivision and remixing. Archival footage that is "chunkable," or amenable to being segmented into video shorts without significant loss of understanding or usability, will be preferred over lengthy footage that is difficult to remix without substantial video editing.
• Accuracy. The entries will be judged for their scientific accuracy and ability to correctly convey scientific concept(s).
• Portability. These videos will be viewed and engaged by children all over the world. While language barriers are unavoidable, there are other elements of video footage that can alienate or disengage certain cultures, and entries will be preferred based on the lack of such problems. For language, suitability for (or even existence of) subtitling will be considered.

This competition is endorsed by

• ccLearn
• Intelligent Television
• OLPC