About the Education Connection Video Contest
July 8, 2009
Get creative!
This is your chance to shine. Show us why you deserve free tuition. Tell people what you plan to study and why. Shoot a documentary about why a college degree is important. Do a funny take on our Education Connection jingles. Or come up with your own idea about education. Just do it in a way that will make people laugh, cry, think and share! And keep it to one minute or less.
The winner receives a $2000 scholarship to school of choice and $1000 cash. The winning video will also be considered for a national TV commercial. The video can be a mashup of current Education Connection commercials and your ideas or it can be completely original - your creativity, your choice! Deadline is July 31st.
Be original or mash it up.
We’ve already created a few jingles about Education Connection. You can use our songs but change the words. Use our words but with a new tune. Use our images with a different audio track. Or come up with something new and different. Just don’t use anything copyrighted! That means you can’t mash up stuff from recording artists, TV or movies.
Play to the judges – and your friends.
Creating your video is just the first step. There is also public voting and two rounds of judging. Voting will take place on the contest blog not at YouTube, even though that’s where you’ll upload your video (don’t worry; we’ll make sure it gets on the voting page). Simply post a video response on our YouTube channel.
The first round of voting is strictly based on popularity and anyone can vote (once per day). So create something entertaining! The top 10 most popular videos will be evaluated by a panel of judges based on education, creativity and promotional value.
Spread the word.
To get your video into the top 10, you’ll definitely need to tell people about it. Use text, Twitter, Facebook, IM, MySpace, email, snail mail, or stand on the street corner with a megaphone. Do whatever it takes to get friends, family and strangers to vote!
Our Judges Will Look at Every Video!
To make sure that everyone has a chance of winning, during the first round our judges will also pick five videos to go on to the second round of judging. So even if you get your video in at the last minute, you still have a chance.
Follow the rules.
The contest officially starts on June 22, 2009. You can only upload one video for the contest. People can only vote once per day – but they can vote once every day. The sooner your video is done, the more days people have to vote! It’s a good idea to read the all the rules before you start. You wouldn’t want to be disqualified after working really hard to win.
Keep up on all the action.
We’ll be tracking and talking about the contest all day, every day. Talk to us on Twitter, join our Facebook group, weigh in on MySpace, and subscribe to our blog. We want to hear your comments. Most of all, we want this to be fun!
To get your video into the top 10, you’ll definitely need to tell people about it. Use text, Twitter, Facebook, IM, MySpace, email, snail mail, or stand on the street corner with a megaphone. Do whatever it takes to get friends, family and strangers to vote!
To make sure that everyone has a chance of winning, during the first round our judges will also pick five videos to go on to the second round of judging. So even if you get your video in at the last minute, you still have a chance. [video remix brochure]