Description
Tell us about you. Tell us about your community, your interest, your friends. The city, state or country you live in. Get a cell phone with minutes just for entering and really cool prizes for the winners!
FreshBrain and Next Vista for Learning would like you to tell your story through video. This can be as simple as combining pictures and music together using software to create a video slideshow. Or as complicated as combining pictures, video, voice, music, and effects to create a multimedia experience.
First 25 individuals to enter* will receive a free T-Mobile® Samsung Beat cellphone, activation and a $30 minute card. Contest winners get T-Mobile Sidekicks® with activation and $100 minutes card or Skullcandy headphones!
Give it a try. See what others have done. Have some fun learning.
Entries must adhere to the rules to be eligable for free phones and prizes.
Example Video
Here is a simple video example from NextVista.
Basic Steps
Here is all you have to do to participate in this contest.
- Decide on the topic of your video
- Take some pictures and/or video (take more than you need, get consent from everyone you include!)
- Pick your tool from the list to help you create the video
- Load the tool up with your pictures and/or video
- Cut out what you don't want
- Add music or voice to tell your story
- Double check that your music is ok to use, and that you have consent (see links below)
- Submit!
Get going and have fun!
Rules
Here is a summary.
- Must be US resident age 13-18 to participate
- Video must be of your own creation (do not use copyrighted material)
- About you and your community (friends, school, town, city, etc.)
- No longer than 3 minutes
- Standard video formats only (avi, mov, mp4, mpg, mpeg, wmv)
- Submit between 11/17/08 and midnight pacific 1/15/09
- Enter as many times as you would like
Please be sure to review the complete set of rules.
Prizes
And on top of that, we will pick the top three and give the following.
- First prize - T-Mobile Skdekick LX w/activation and $100 minutes card
- Second prize - T-Mobile Sidekick Slide w/activation and $100 minutes card
- Third prize - Skullcandy Metallica Artist Series Hesh headphones
For more information, please see the complete rules.
Suggested Activity Tools
Material Requirements
Camera (movie or still)
Video Editing Software (see project tool list above!)
And your brain and creativity
