National Kite Month Video Contest

[Mr. Robin McCracken]

https://www.facebook.com/NationalKiteMonth National Kite Month –April 2014 Video Contest. Prize will be given for BEST VIDEO; other prizes may be awarded for most noteworthy videos submitted. Many factors will be considered in the judging process. Production quality may make the video look nice, but the primary things we’re looking at are how influential, entertaining, informative, and popular the video is. Don’t be discouraged if you don’t have a production company or editing skills, just get your cell phone camera out, and start filming.

Make your own “commercial” of your upcoming kite event. This can be a kite building workshop, kite club gathering, a kite display in a library or any place, or a Kite Festival. Anything kite related, the location, date, times, mention names of famous people or kitefliers attending, shoot a video of the park, kites flying, weather reports, wind conditions.

Make a video during the event. If you are too busy flying kites, you can have your spouse, friends, or event organizers shoot videos. Most of the time it’s likely that the organization hosting your events will have someone taking photos and videos. You can submit those to the contest, but it may take too long for them to give you a copy, especially professionals. Anyone with a cell phone camera can take a video.

The preferred method of uploading your video link and presenting it to us is to upload it onto your own https://www.youtube.com/ account. Easiest for us to share your video. You still have control over it, when people view it they go to your own link to watch it. TIP, if you have Unlimited Data or a WiFi signal to tap into, you can Upload your video immediately from the kite field! Once it posts to You Tube, you can post the link on your Facebook timeline and share with https://www.facebook.com/NationalKiteMonth . Avoid copyrighted or popular music, YouTube will block your video or make it not available on mobile. Even music playing over the loudspeakers at a kite festival might prompt You Tube to block your video.

Please no profanity (or very minimal), nudity, or excessive commercial content. For Internet safety reasons, please obtain permission from people if they are in the video close up. Always obtain permission from Parents of any children in the video; we advise more video coverage of the kites flying and the surroundings, wildlife, and pets, less of people and children. All videos submitted will be used by National Kite Month to promote all genres of kite activities (single line, dual line, kite boarding, kite pin collecting, miniature kites, etc.) and can be posted by us on various social media sites including our own websites , and could be shared all over the Internet. By submitting a link to your video to us, you agree to these terms and also agree we are not liable for anything associated with the video. We suggest you burn a copy of your video to a CD or file for safekeeping.

[RobB]

Hey Robin...

Sounds like a great idea to promote Kite Month. I can't wait to see what the winds bring to Long Island this year... hopefully I'll be able to put something together.

Here's what I came up with last year...

~Rob.