Contest Rules
The HMSA Teen Video Awards Contest gives students, working individually or in teams,
the opportunity to create and produce their own public service announcement on health
issues. The contest is open to middle and high school students statewide from public
and private schools.
Entrance and Submission Guidelines
- Videos must be the individual’s or team’s own original work. Assistance
from a professional production company is not permitted.
- All entries must include:
- One original, fully produced 27-second video with slate. (See “Video Format
Specification Requirements” for submission details.)
- Completed and signed entry form(s).
- Copies of any necessary releases or licenses required to use third-party content.
It is the entrant’s responsibility to ensure that all the necessary forms
and releases are completed. Incomplete entries will be disqualified.
- All entry materials must be submitted together, and each piece should be clearly
labeled with the individual or team leader’s name, video title, and school. Individuals
or teams may submit multiple entries in the same or different categories.
- Video categories are:
- Fitness/nutrition.
- Drug-free.
- Tobacco-free.
- Underage drinking prevention.
- Social health (such as sexually transmitted diseases, teen pregnancy, Internet safety,
bullying, teen suicide, date rape, and more).
- All entries become the property of HMSA and cannot be returned.
Entry Forms
- For individual entries, students must complete and sign a separate Entry Form, consisting
of 4 pages, for each video entered.
- For team entries, the designated team leader must complete designated sections on
page 1 of the Entry Form; a copy of pages 2 & 3 must be completed and signed
by each member of the team.
- Teams may include students from different schools, but each team must select one
team captain, one sponsoring school, and one sponsoring teacher. Any prizes awarded
will be given to the sponsoring school.
Video Format Specification Requirements
| Length: |
27 seconds, maximum |
| NTSC: |
4:3 interlaced |
| Timebase: |
29.97 fps |
| Frame size: |
720 X 480 (preferred)
640 X 480 |
| Audio: |
32/48kHz (48kHz preferred)
12/16 bit (16 bit preferred)
stereo/mono (stereo preferred) |
| Media: |
Mini DV tape (preferred)
DVD video (playable in standard NTSC DVD player) |
- All video entries must be “slated” with the category, title and school
name.
- Video entries must follow this format in this order:
- 15 seconds of video black.
- 10-second slate with the category, title and school.
- 5 seconds of video black.
- Start video entry.
- Only multiple entries in the same category may be submitted on a single tape or
disc.
- No credits.
Deadline
Judging
- A panel of judges will select the finalists and winners.
- Awards will be given for the following videos:
- Best fitness/nutrition.
- Best drug-free.
- Best tobacco-free.
- Best underage drinking prevention.
- Best social health.
- Best of show.
- Videos will be judged as follows:
- Content (25 percent of score): Is the message clear? Is information
accurate and pertinent? If any third-party content is incorporated in the video,
have appropriate releases or licenses been secured?
- Effectiveness/Impact (25 percent of score): Does the video appeal
to youth? Does it make an impact on viewers?
- Creativity (25 percent of score): Is the video the original work
of students that has not previously been broadcast on television? Is it creative?
- Videography (25 percent of score): Does the video contain high-quality
images and sound?
- Finalists will be chosen in each of the five categories. All finalists will be notified
in April 2010.
Map of DOE, Safe and Drug-Free Schools and
Communities Program office at OCISS Annex.
For additional information, please call HMSA at (808) 952-7989 on Oahu.