Digicam Gimbal maker Zhiyun Tech has introduced their 2022 Brief Movie Contest with over $100,000 {dollars} in prizes. The competition permits filmmakers to submit movies to YouTube or Instagram till October twentieth, 2022.
The competition seeks to attract consideration to the recognition of constructing brief movies and posting them on social websites akin to YouTube, Instagram, or Tik Tok.
Picture Credit score – ZhiyunTech
As the recognition of the brief type video has grown, mainly because of mobile-centric apps, the side ratio format of vertical video has turn out to be a viable normal, with main digicam manufacturers and video modifying software program providing the side ratio as an possibility.
Final yr’s Zhiyun Brief Movie Competitors drew over 1024 entries from 864 teams and people from 47 nations world wide.
This yr’s competitors is sponsored by such filmmaking and video manufacturers as Nikone, RODE, Aputure, SmallRig, Lexar, FiLMiC Professional, and Hollyland.
Prize packages embrace:
- First prize winner – complete worth $6,300 USD
- Two 2nd-prize winners – complete worth $4,800 USD ($2,400 every)
- Three Third-prize winners – complete worth $5,100 USD ($1,700 every)
- Three Nikon Recent Clip Award winners – complete worth $2,400 ($800 every)
As well as, Zhiyun is providing a $300 bonus prize to entries that additionally submit a behind-the-scenes video as a part of their submission.
Judges for this yr’s brief movie competitors embrace Tim Williams, the founding father of MediaStorm; director and cinematographer Olivier H.D; photographer and content material creator Lin Haiyin; and director and photographer Zhizhu.
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All entries should embrace the Zhiyun Pre-roll introduction for the competition, which is on the market for obtain throughout registration. Different required info should embrace a title and outline to elucidate the submission, and an inventory of gadgets used to seize and movie the submission. Word: Entries do NOT must be shot on a Zhiyun gimbal or different product.
To enter, filmmakers should register for the competitors on the ZHIYUN Brief Movie Contest Portal. Then, creatives can submit a brief movie with instructed classes that embrace Journey, Vlog, Narrative, Inventive, and Documentary.
The movie will be of any subject material, so long as a class is chosen, however there appears to be a little bit of confusion about length.
Whereas the announcement states entries will be any length, the Zhiyun web site states that the length of the brief movie submission must be not than 30 seconds. So it might be price sending an e-mail or tweet to Zhiyun to make clear in case you plan to go extra lengthy type along with your entry.
As well as, the decision of entries should be at the least 1080p or above. After creating their entry, filmmakers are inspired to submit their entry on Instagram or YouTube, with the hashtag #ZHIYUNAnnualShortVideoContest2022. Moreover, entries ought to ship an e-mail to [email protected], with both the YouTube or Instagram hyperlink.
The competition submission interval runs from July fifth to October 20, 2022, at midnight, with judging occurring till the winner is introduced on November 20, 2022.
[source: Zhiyun]
