ARTBA’s 2nd Annual
Student Transportation Construction Industry
Video Contest Videos are Due August 15 More information: contact ARTBA’s Lital Shair at
[email protected] or 202.289.4434 Full contest rules and descriptions are available online: www.artba.org/videocontest
• The top two student videos will win a $500 cash prize! • Your video may appear on the ARTBA website, be screened on YouTube and could also be featured at the association’s National Convention, September 11-14 in Memphis, Tennessee. • The original 2 to 4 minute video can examine any aspect of transportation in the U.S. Possible topics include:
• How infrastructure is built and paid for.
• What are the costs and financing needs of transportation infrastructure.
• What are the impacts of congestion and changing travel demands.
*Entrant warrants that their submission is original, that publication of the submission will not infringe on the rights of others, and Entrant has full power to grant ownership to ARTBA as stated herein. ARTBA has no obligation of any nature to publish, promote, display or otherwise use any information provided by Entrants, including but not limited to biographical or video content.
ARTBA Video Contest Rules & Description General Description The top two student videos (one winner in each category), as selected by ARTBA, will each be awarded a $500 cash prize. The winners, along with other submitted videos, may be shown at the American Road and Transportation Builders Association (ARTBA) National Convention. Entrants may work in teams, but only ONE prize is awarded per video. Submitted videos may also be featured on the ARTBA website, screened on YouTube, and/or other promotional venues. Entrants should create an original two (2) to four (4) minute video examining any aspect of transportation in the United States. Some suggested topics include: • • • • • •
U.S. Transportation Infrastructure 101 How infrastructure is built and paid for What are the costs and financing needs of transportation infrastructure What are the impacts of congestion and changing travel demands What are the “man on the street” impressions of the industry versus reality Recent transportation and urban design/development patterns
ARTBA is looking for creativity, so stretch the bounds of your imagination. Entrants must submit a video in one of two categories based on their school attendance through August of 2012: • •
Category One: Entrants are in elementary, middle or high school. This includes high school students who graduated in 2012 but may be planning to continue their studies at a post-secondary institution. Category Two: Entrants are currently enrolled in a post-secondary, college or graduate school program.
Video Requirments •
Videos submitted must be a minimum of (2) two minutes and a maximum of (4) four minutes in duration.
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Videos must have a resolution suitable for large screen projection. Videos not achieving suitable resolution will be disqualified.
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A Waiver and Submission Form signed by you and all of your team members must be submitted along with Photo Release Forms, signed by anyone else who appears in the video.
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No copyrighted material may be used. Contact your university/college media center for help obtaining noncopyrighted music and sound effects.
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The videos cannot contain content that violates the submission standards of YouTube (http://www.youtube. com/t/community_guidelines and http://www.youtube.com/t/terms).
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Written credits for key technical and talent positions should be provided to ARTBA (i.e., director, cinematographer, editor, writer, actors) including any music and/ or footage sources. On-screen credits for technical and talent positions are not required. If on-screen credits are included, they should be listed on one screen at the end, trailer-style, and not rolling for minutes like they would at the end of a feature. The time for showing credits is not counted towards the 4 minute maximum. All videos MUST include both a title for the video and recognition of ARTBA.
Judging Judges: Judges of the competition shall be no less than five (5) ARTBA members. The judges will be the sole arbiters deciding which video maker(s) are selected as award winners. No one will be allowed to be a judge if he/she has a conflict of interest with respect to any of the contest entrants, as determined by ARTBA in its sole discretion. A maximum of two (2) videos will be selected and the video makers will be notified of the awards. An announcement of the winners will be made by September 5, 2012. Criteria: Entries will be judged on creativity, technical merit, adherence to contest requirements, and on how well they manage to convey the themes of the topic. These are clearly subjective categories and will be treated as such. The final awards will be selected based solely on the judges’ consensus. Online Distribution: No videos may be posted with public access anywhere prior to the contest. If judges find that your video was produced before the contest, you will be ineligible for the competition. After the judging, video makers are free to post their video anywhere they desire. Disqualification: The judges reserve the right to disqualify any team, contributor, entrant, or entered video that does not comply with the Official Rules and other Contest requirements communicated by the organizer. They also reserve the right to disqualify videos submitted by or promoting for-profit entities at the sole discretion of ARTBA. Eligibility: All Entrants must be students currently enrolled at a university (graduate and undergraduate), college, high school, middle school or elementary school in any discipline.
Entry Submission The video maker must submit a link to the final video that is on YouTube to ARTBA no later than August 15, 2012. For help on uploading video to YouTube see (http://www.google.com/support/youtube/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=57924). Entrant must comply with all terms, conditions, and registration requirements of the video contest. The Student status of each Entrant must be verified by a faculty member or teacher through a letter of qualification. Winners will be notified and must execute final releases and information requests prior to payment of the prizes. Failure to do so will void the award. All entries become the property of ARTBA and will not be returned.
Additional Terms
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By submitting an entry, Entrant unconditionally assigns and transfers to ARTBA all rights, ownership, title, interest and claim (including without limitation all copyrights), which it now has or may have in the future, to entries (including, without limitation, the submitted video), whether or not acceptable to ARTBA and regardless of the form they take, or any element(s) thereof and further grants to ARTBA the right to use, publish, exploit and/or modify any entry and/or video submitted in connection herewith in any manner it wishes, regardless if the media is now existing or hereafter created. ARTBA reserves the right to edit and/or modify any video content or video titles and publish or advertise the video without Entrant’s approval, acknowledgement or compensation unless prohibited by law. By entering, Entrant agrees to defend, release and hold harmless ARTBA and its agents from and against any claims, action and/or liability for injury, loss or damage of any kind resulting from Entrant’s participation herein (including in connection with the use and/or exploitation of the submitted video) or from the acceptance or use of any prize awarded. ARTBA reserves the right to verify eligibility qualifications of the winner. US law governs these contest rules. ARTBA has the right to modify, use, assign or dispose of your entry however it sees fit without approval of entrant or any third party. Entrants grants ARTBA the right to use their names, images, likenesses, photographs, voices and biographical materials, and video submissions, for advertising, publicity and promotion purposes including posting the videos or screen names online for any purpose or on a winner’s list and other online announcements, and for sharing the videos with the media for viewing, whether TV or print, without additional compensation, unless prohibited by law. Neither entrants nor winner shall receive any compensation or credit for use of entries, other than that disclosed in these rules. Entrants agree that if selected as a winner, they grant ARTBA and its designees the right to film and later publish footage of the winner.
2 ARTBA is not responsible for incorrect or inaccurate transcription of entry information, or for any human or other error, technical malfunctions, lost/delayed data transmission, omission, interruption, deletion, defect, line failures of any telephone network, computer equipment, software, inability to access any online service or web site, or any other error or malfunction, or any injury or damage to participant’s or any other person’s computer related to or resulting from participation herein, or for any injury to person or property, including but not limited to video equipment, arising from the entrant’s participation herein or for the use or misuse of any prize won. ARTBA is not responsible for lost, late, illegible or misdirected entries or mail. Entrant warrants that their submission is original, that publication of the submission will not infringe on the rights of others, and Entrant has full power to grant ownership to ARTBA as stated herein ARTBA has no obligation of any nature to publish, promote, display or otherwise use any information provided by Entrants, including but not limited to biographical or video content. All taxes are the responsibility of the winners.
