Great Indy News video today! Did you all go see Jurassic Park 3D this weekend??? We are DYING to go ASAP!

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You asked how I built my camera backpack into an over-the-shoulder GoPro rig, so here it is!

Plus, the new FreeFly MoVI camera stabilizer, how Stereo D turned Jurassic Park 3D, and Blackmagic’s two new Cinema Cameras at NAB!

New and Notable Video Contests - Week of April 8

Biggest cash prize: It’s a tie: $25,000 in two video contests this week! First up, the ‘Me on GNC’ Photo & Video Contest. GNC is seeking inspiring stories about using their products to achieve health and wellness. Open to US residents, 18 and older, and due June 30th. Next, we have the Looking@Democracy Challenge, which is open to all US residents. This competition is seeking creative media pieces about strengthening American democracy. Your submission can come in many formats such as short videos, audio stories, animation, music videos, public service announcements, infographics, graphic art, even Facebook and iPhone apps. Outside of the big cash prizes for 1st-3rd Place, there are special cash prizes for students and other young people, so if you’re young but have BIG IDEAS, check it out! Hurry, entries are due April 30th.

Best prize: OK, we’ve got two options here too, and they’re both awesome for filmmakers looking to level up on their equipment. First and foremost is a shot to win $65,000 in filmmaking gear, including the RED EPIC-X PRO COLLECTION, in the 2013 HDVideoPro ‘Emerging Pro’ Competition. The catch here is that you have to be a film or photography student in college, OR have less than 5 years of professional experience, PLUS be a US resident in order to participate. Here’s how it goes: Make an eye-catching 5 minute short. Narrative or not, your filmmaking chops have gotta shine if you’re gonna wow the judges. There will be a Round 2 if you’re named as a finalist, but in order to make the cut, you first need to get your submission in by August 15th. Another great option is the Adblock Plus Creative Challenge. It’s open worldwide, 16 and older, and offers a prize of $5000 of your choice of video equipment. Adblock Plus invites you to create an anti-advertising ad that reflects the ethos of their browser extension service. Due May 31st.

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OVC’s Pick of the Week: Out of all the contests, our favorite this week is the ‘Lurk’ Vocab Video Contest, brought to you by Project ED. Project ED is the new video contest site on the block, and their aim is to create a library of educational videos on topics from science to language arts and more. One thing that sets them apart is all their competitions currently offer grand prizes to two age categories: students and adults/teachers. For this specific competition, they are seeking 60-second videos that illustrate the definition of the verb ‘LURK’. Capture the spooky vibe of ‘lurk’ in a visually captivating way, and you could earn up to $1000. Open to US and Canadian residents, 13 and older. Due May 1st.

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? 

Anyone got $15,000 laying around? And could we please borrow it?

(via This New Camera Stabilizer Could Change Cinematography Forever)

New and Notable Video Contests - Week of April 1

Biggest cash prize: 15,000€ (approx $19,000 US) in the Clear Men ‘Nothing to Hide’ Video Contest, brought to you by Eyeka. Make a spot for anti-dandruff shampoo Clear Men that captures the confidence  a man feels once his hair is flake free. Open worldwide and due May 22nd.

Best prize: A $1,000 scholarship in The 2013 ACT Video Contest. If you’re a junior or senior in high school who is planning to go to college in the next 2 years, make a video on the topic of the ACT. There are 3 contest categories on which you may base your film, and there will be Grand Prize and Runner Up winners for each category, so there are a lot of opportunities to win cash for college. Due April 30th.

Best trip: A trip to Cannes Lions + your work featured in the Saatchi & Saatchi New Directors’ Showcase in the OK Go ‘I’m Not Through’ Music Video Challenge, brought to you by Talenthouse. OK Go are challenging fresh filmmaking talent (that’d be you!) to demonstrate how they can use innovative techniques to conceive and execute a music video for OK Go’s brand new track. Open worldwide, 18 and older, and due May 7th.

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OVC’s Pick of the Week: Out of all the contests, our favorite this week is the Cannes 2013: Chevrolet Video Contest, brought to you by MOFILM. Chevrolet has launched a new campaign called ‘Find New Roads’ and they’ve teamed up with Jon Landau to help you bring it to life. We like this contest because the brand is supplying you with Landau’s words and asking you to supply the visuals to accompany them. It’s your task to make a film that inspires. The grand prize is a trip to Cannes + $8000, and there’s also cash prizes for 4 Runners Up. Open worldwide, 16 and older. Due May 27th.

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?

This week, we’re serving up 4 fresh videos that need your votes and views. If you have a minute, click over and give an OVCer a hand!

VOTE FOR:

• Joseph R in the ABOVE Book Trailer Contest. Give your ‘Thumbs Up’ on the video here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z2_SNbgQuhw
  

• Steven H in the Contest Central ‘Food Presentation’ Video Contest, Click ‘Like’ just below his entry ‘An Attempt at Sushi’ here: http://contestcentral.com/contest/food_contests/0/201
  

• McKay O in The 2013 Wyoming Short Film Contest. He has two entries that you can help by giving them both a 5 star rating!

‘Alone’: http://wyomingshortfilmcontest.com/entry/1937789

‘The Last Gift’: http://wyomingshortfilmcontest.com/entry/1937802

There you have it! Thanks to our OVCers who shared their entries with us and thanks to YOU for voting!

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Remember, there are plenty of other videos that could use a little help as well. If you’ve got a minute, stop on by the ‘Up For Vote’ page on OVC. And if you need help winning a video contest with views or votes, make sure to share your entry with us there too. Don’t forget to let us know when you win!

The team over at Vimeo Video School kill it again with this tutorial “Three Tricks For Your Impossibly Small Film Crew”

Watch the video, then get the full lesson here.

For more helpful tutorials from Vimeo Video School, click here.

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(h/t to the Tongal Facebook page for alerting us to this cool vid)

New and Notable Video Contests - Week of March 25th

Biggest cash prize: 12,500€ (approx $16,000 US) in the Hyundai ‘Better World’ Video Contest, brought to you by Eyeka. Imagine the feeling you get when reality surpasses your initial expectation. Now, show a world where *everything* is better than it should be. Open worldwide and due April 22nd.

Best prize: A 10-week paid internship with the Sierra Club in ‘The Best Internship on Earth’ Video Contest. Are you in college and have a passion for the outdoors? This summer, the Sierra Club will choose TWO young adults to spend the summer enjoying, exploring, and protecting! Whether you’re more comfortable onscreen or off, share why you care about the environment and you could end up traveling around the country with the Sierra Club’s activist and outings programs, and video blogging your experience. Open to college students and recent college grads, 18 and older. Due April 9th.

Best trip: A trip to LA to tour the WB Studios as a VIP + have your animation included in a film (and more!) in the ReBrick ‘The LEGO Movie’ Competition. The LEGO Movie is coming to a screen near you in 2014 - and this is the chance for you to be a part of it. LEGO is inviting animators to create a 15-30 second stop-motion scene for possible inclusion in the film. Open worldwide, 16 and older, and due May 6th.

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OVC’s Pick of the Week: Out of all the contests, our favorite this week is the LEGO Castle Video Project, brought to you by Tongal. This is shaping up to be an epic competition where a multitude of creators will have a shot at staking their claim. Using the LEGO Castle world as the starting point, the goal for this campaign will be to create a visually stunning mini-series comprised of six 2 minute episodes (or “chapters”) that capture the imagination of young boys. From developing the series to writing the individual chapters and filming them, there are a number of ways to get involved. Writers can earn $500 per chapter, and filmmakers/animators will then pitch to earn a $1500 production budget to produce a specific chapter. At it’s completion, these filmmakers will earn $10,000 for their video chapter. Submission dates vary for writers, but pitches will be due in mid-June. Open worldwide, 13 and older.

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? 

New and Notable Video Contests - Week of March 18th

Biggest cash prize: 8,000€ (approx $10,500 US) in the Japan Tourism Agency ‘The Spirit of Japan’ Contest, brought to you by Eyeka. Make a video to encourage tourists to visit Japan. Using one of the given “slice of Japan” pictures or videos as an inspiration and a building block, create an original and engaging story that shows the surprising discoveries a traveller could encounter if they were to visit the country. Open worldwide and due April 25th.

Best prize: A $2,500 grant for your school’s music program in the ‘Music Teachers Matter’ 2013 Video Contest. The Music Empowers Foundation asks student to share why their school’s music program and teachers are important. Open to all music education advocates, just make sure whoever submits the video is over 18 and you’ll be good to go. Hurry - due March 31st.

Best trip: A trip to Milan + €5000 scholarship in The iChange Video Competition. This competition invites college students from all over the world to create short, sharp video messages about climate change. Make a video that inspires positive action and you could be one of FIVE finalists to win a €2000 scholarship and that trip to Milan for the annual International GrandPrix Advertising Strategies gala. The overall Grand Prize video will be chosen from among the Finalists and will be awarded extra scholarship money. Due May 1st.

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OVC’s Pick of the Week: Out of all the contests, our favorite this week is the Yoplait Seasons ‘Summer’ Filmmaking Project, brought to you by GeneroTV. It may not be summer where you live, but it’s never too early to start day dreaming about warm nights, weekends at the beach or lake, and all the other things that make summer so good. This is the final seasonal challenge from Yoplait, and you could win $8000 if your video best captures the essence of summer. Two Runners-Up will also receive $1000 for their videos. Open worldwide, 18 and older, and due April 15th.

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? 

New and Notable Video Contests - Week of March 11th

Biggest cash prize: $11,000 in the ‘You Never Have to Outgrow Chips Ahoy!’ Project, brought to you by Tongal. The goal of this project is to create a 60-second video and a 30-second cutdown based on the concept that you never have to outgrow Chips Ahoy! Whether you’re 8 or 80, the crunchy chocolate chip cookies represent happiness and deliciousness. Open worldwide, 13 and older, and final videos are due April 3rd.

Best trip: A trip to Cannes, France + $8000 in the Cannes 2013: Telefonica TuMe Video Contest, brought to you by MOFILM. TU is an amazing new application from Telefonica that allows you to make calls, text, check into locations and so much more, all from one place. Now the app is going global, and they want your help in shaping the message. Production grants up to $2000 are up for grabs for those who pitch by March 22nd. Videos will be due May 27th. Open worldwide, 16 and older.

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OVC’s Pick of the Week: Out of all the contests, our favorite this week is theCooper Tire ‘My Every Day Road Trip’ Video Contest. Cooper Tires wants to know: What makes your every day road trip not-so-everyday? What are the sights and experiences that await you on the roads you travel? Five finalists will each receive a new set of four Cooper Tires for their car, and one Grand Prize Winner from the bunch will also earn free gas for a year (up to $5000 dollars!). Open to US residents, 19 and older. Due March 29th.

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? 

New and Notable Video Contests - Week of March 4th

Biggest cash prize: $25,000 in the FreeCreditScore ‘Make a Better Commercial’ Contest. If you’ve seen them, you know that FreeCreditScore.com’s Score Planner commercials have some pretty unconventional endings. Now they want to see what you can come up with. FreeCreditScore is supplying the beginning of a commercial, and you just need to create the ending in 10 seconds to 2 minutes. Open to US residents, 18 an older, and due March 28th.

Best non-cash prize: A $8000 Gaming PC OR Trip to NCAA Final Four in the Windows 8 Video Contest. Make a 60-second video that shows what you love to do and how Windows 8 helps you do it, and you could be one of an outstanding 100 winners in this competition. Open to US residents, 18 and older. Videos are due March 22nd.

Best contest with an extended deadline: $5000 in the Sunkist ‘Cara Cara Power Orange’ Video Contest. In this newly extended contest, Sunkist has upped the Grand Prize by several thousand dollars. Video contest promoters take note: This is the right way to extend your deadline without pissing off filmmakers. The objective here is to shoot a 1-2 minute video where the Cara Cara Orange is the star. To get you started, Sunkist has provided 5 facts about cara caras, of which you must highlight at least 2 of these facts in your video. This contest is open to US residents, 18 and older. To qualify, get your video in by April 7th.

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OVC’s Pick of the Week: Out of all the contests, our favorite this week is the Candy Crush Saga REAL LIFE Video Contest, brought to you by Userfarm. You’ve probably already played Candy Crush on your smartphone or Facebook by now, but for those living under a rock, it’s the latest puzzle flash game craze. The game’s creators are seeking 30-60 second videos that bring the physics of the Candy Crush to the real world. Show the fun and challenge of the game in a compelling way, and you could earn a grand prize of € 4.000 (approx $5200 USD)! There are also lots of Runner Up prizes and Early Entry Prizes to be won - so get going! Open worldwide, 18 and older. The last day to enter will be April 7th.

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?