Open video

As part of ongoing curation of great open video for children, OLPC and Intelligent Television are working together to encourage archives of science videos to share their treasures with the world... and to encourage videographers to produce new videos using 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 is now encouraging innovative producers to post and share scientific video material suitable for young audiences (ages 8 to 16). An international panel of judges will award the grand prize for the best contributed archives on February 15, 2008.

Grand prize for best contributed archive:

• $2,000;
• an OLPC laptop; and
• winning producer material featured on laptops and press materials worldwide.

Entry deadline:

• for contributed archives : February 1, 2008

A second stage of this contest will launch in 2008 for the best new short films created/remixed from these archives. The second stage deadline and prizes will be announced in January 2008.

Submission details:

Interested producers should provide a one-paragraph description of their proposed video content for the 2008 contest administrator at cjv@intelligenttv.com. The description should detail the following:

• a brief description of subject material in the video
• the number of minutes/hours of video
• a description of when and where the video material was produced and by whom
• details about whether the material has been distributed/broadcast previously and if so where and when
• rights information, as detailed below
• producer contact information

The contest administrator will confirmed receipt of this descriptive material, and will ask the producer 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). Interested producers must contribute at least five (5) hours of video by February 1, 2008, to be eligible for the grand prize.

Submitted videos will be shared and made available for remixing by others. Interested producers must have the right to release their submitted works for these uses. We will accept only archival footage that can be copied, distributed, transmitted, and adapted by others as defined by Creative Commons licenses "CC-BY" or "CC-BY-SA":

http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/

http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/

We will be unable to accept video with the non-commercial (NC) term. Please see the website below or contact us with questions regarding this policy:

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 segmentation 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.

We reserve the right to alter these criteria with notice.

This competition is endorsed by

• ccLearn
• Intelligent Television
• OLPC