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), including the Team Registration Form (if team
project).
- 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
- Students must complete and sign a separate entry form for each video entered.
- For team entries, the designated team leader must complete the Team Registration
Form and each team member must complete and sign an Entry Form.
- Teams may include students from different schools, but each team must select one
team leader, 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.
- No identifiable logos or trademarks.
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 2008.
Teen Video Awards
- The Teen Video Awards will be held on Thursday, May 14, 2009, at Consolidated Ward
Theatre. Admission will be by invitation only. This “film festival”
type event will include entertainment and local celebrity presenters.
- All finalists will be invited to the Teen Video Awards and have their videos shown
on the big screen. Winners will be announced and presented with an award and certificate.
Prizes
- Cash prizes will be awarded in each category: $1,000 for first place, $500 for second
place and $250 for third place. All first-place finishers will also be judged for
“Best of Show,” with the winner receiving an additional $1,000. Prizes
will be awarded to the winning schools for the purchase of video equipment or software.
- All prizes will be donated to the winner’s sponsoring school.
- The winning videos will be aired on television beginning in May 2009, and will include
credit to the sponsoring school and contest presenters.
Map of DOE, Safe and Drug-Free Schools and
Communities Program office at OCISS Annex.
For additional information, please call HMSA at (808) 948-6883 on Oahu.