2007 iTest Video Contest

The 2007 iTest will feature a video contest as the main side contest to this year's event.

Prize? $200 gift card to Best Buy for the winning student or student team.

The 2007 iTest Video Contest is open to any high school student attending a school where students are participating in the 2007 iTest. Students participating in the Video Contest do not have to be 2007 iTest participants themselves, although we encourage Video Contest entrants to also participate in the iTest itself.

Students can work alone or with other students (no restrictions on how many students can work together on a team) to create a video highlighting student participation in the 2007 iTest. Students working together to solve problems, meeting after school to delegate responsibilities and allocate team resources to be used in trying to attain the best team score, students hustling to get problems solved prior to the submission deadline ... all of these things would make for compelling video footage as part of a 2007 iTest Video Contest submission.

There are some rules of the game, though:


2007 iTest Video Contest Rules and Requirements

1) Each participating student/student team in the Video Contest may only submit one video entry.
2) Each video entry must be between 60 and 90 seconds in length.
3) Each video entry must be submitted to bradleymetrock@theitest.com in AVI or MPEG format by no later than 11:59 PM Central time on Friday, September 21. This additional time beyond the submission deadline for the 2007 iTest is designed to allow participating iTest students time after the math exam is complete to get in their video submissions.
4) Each video entry must display the 2007 iTest logo (any color is fine) for at least 3 seconds at the beginning of the video as part of an introductory/title screen. How this is done is up to participating students, and the size of the logo on screen can vary as necessary, but it needs to be clearly visible up front.
5) Each video entry must incorporate the song "Typical" by Mute Math into the submission. Particularly, the first verse and chorus of the song are REQUIRED to be used in each video submission. Beyond that, students/student teams are welcome to be creative in splicing other parts of the song, looping parts of the song, etc. ONLY this song should be used, and no other, in creating the video (although parts of the video can have ambient audio, if desired).
6) Each video entry should conclude with a "credits" section. This section does not have to count toward the time length requirement of 60-90 seconds.
7) Each video entry should be posted on YouTube with appropriate search keywords and text description at the time of submission to the iTest staff.
8) There are no restrictions on type of camera or film that may be used in this contest.
9) Among all submissions, 3-5 finalists will be selected and made available for download on the iTest website sometime in October. The winning video will be chosen from among these finalists by no later than November 1, 2007. All video submissions are property of the iTest. Decisions made by the iTest in determining finalists and the winning video are final. Decisions will be based on creativity, adherence to the above guidelines, overall clarity of what is going on in the video, and ability of the iTest staff to re-use the video in marketing the competition in subsequent years.
10) Please direct any questions regarding this video side contest that are not answered above to Bradley Metrock, President, the iTest at bradleymetrock@theitest.com. Check back on this blog for any additional information regarding this contest!

Thanks, and good luck.