New and Notable Video Contests - Week of November 12th

Biggest cash prize: $43,000 in the LEGO DUPLO ‘So Many Ways to Play’ Super Project, brought to you by Tongal. TEN Pitches will be selected and those filmmakers will each receive $3,000 to help create a five Video suite for LEGO DUPLO, the new and bigger building bricks designed for younger children. If your pitch is selected, you will also be guaranteed to get paid for your final videos. First Place is $40k, and Tenth Place is $6k. Pitches due December 3rd.

Best non-cash prize: A $100,000 Toshiba Technology Makeover in theToshiba ‘Helping the Helpers’ Video Contest. This is a contest for US-based nonprofit organizations. How would replacing your current equipment with leading-edge innovations make your life, and the lives of those you serve, better? Due January 31st.

Best trip: Trip for 2 to Red River, New Mexico in the Red River ‘Snow-It-All’ Video Contest. Love snow, and all the outdoor activities associated with it? Are you active on social media with an engaged following? You might just be a ‘Snow-it-All’. Make a 60-second video showing why you’d make a good Red River ambassador, and you could win an all-expenses-paid trip to Red River during Mardi Gras in the Mountains! Due November 30th.

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OVC’s Pick of the Week: Overall, our favorite contest this week is the Superpages Mobile Video Contest, brought to you by Zooppa. Make a short showing the FREE Superpages Mobile App solving a funny or unique need. Seven videos will be awarded cash prizes, with the top video earning $7000! This one is open worldwide to entrants 14 and older. Due January 16th.

None of these video contests striking your fancy? There are TONS more contests waiting for you at OnlineVideoContests.com! Which contests will you be working on? 

If you want to make sure your shoot day goes smoothly and you get all the shots you need, you’ve got to come prepared with your storyboard. For a digital twist on the ol’ paper and pencil, Cinemek’s Storyboard Composer app for iPhone/iPad is pretty nifty.

The app runs between $15-$30, and allows you to arrange and manipulate your photos to create zooms, pans, write notes, add stand-ins and more. You can even string everything together, set pacing and watch your storyboard come to life. When you’ve got things looking right, upload and share your storyboards easily online.

We just started playing with it at OVC HQ - have any of y’all tried it out? Do you think this app would be useful for you?

Our friend Beardy over at VideoContestNews.com has a helpful guide to clearing up your Facebook from all the contest apps you’ve probably added over the past months (If you’re like us, maybe even years!).

We just went through our Facebook settings cleaning out apps the other day, and we feel so much better!

DollyCam app lets you stabilize iPhone 4 videos, we go hands-on (via Engadget)

This might be a good tool to use if you’re thinking of entering the 2011 Original iPhone Film Festival (due Sept 30)

Original Victories, Inc. (the very small company that’s behind OVC and a couple other nifty sites) recently released an app called the Video Time Machine. It’s a fun way to relive the past through pop culture videos dating all the way back to 1860!

Video Time Machine has been rocking the iTunes charts over the past couple days and we couldn’t be more proud. We think you’ll like it too. Learn more about the app here and check out details on how to get a copy for yourself for free below:

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PLEASE REBLOG THIS FOR A FREE COPY OF THE APP!! (Please reply with your iTunes email address or message us with your iTunes email address and we will gift you the app!)

*If you already have the app please reblog and let your friends know because GIFTS ARE AWESOME!!!!