CSN/BBC DV Challenge

Win a DV camera for your school in our one-minute movie challenge.  Send us your movie(s) on one of the following subjects-

• Cardiff   (a different view not a tourist guide)

• Video humour  (a digital joke)

• A video lesson (teach something - anything!)

• An animation (any theme)

Your movie(s) should be one minute or less.  One minute not enough?  Click on the links below to see what can be done. See also the BBC site that has tips and tricks on DV production or http://cardiffschools.net/LMS 

Simple Humour

Tight commercial masterpiece

This challenge is only open to county schools in Cardiff, Wales   : )

Your Video Format

Our preferred video format is Mini-DV Tape although VHS and DVCam are also acceptable. Files can be submitted on CD-ROM or DVD in uncompressed avi, mov or swf format.  Other formats will be rejected. (Entries can not be returned).

Videos and accompanying entry forms should be sent, by 1st October, 2005, to:-

DV Competition,
CardiffSchools.Net,
The Teachers Centre,
Hammond Way,
Cardiff.
CF23 9NB

Winners will be announced on cardiffschools.net by 1st November 2005.

Rules -  The small print.  BBC and cardiffschools.net (CSN).

1. You agree, by submitting your contribution, to grant cardiffschools.net and the BBC a perpetual, royalty-free, non-exclusive, sub-licenseable right and license to use, reproduce, modify, adapt, publish, translate, create derivative works from, distribute, perform, play, and exercise all copyright and publicity rights with respect to your contribution worldwide and/or to incorporate your contribution in other works in any media now known or later developed for the full term of any rights that may exist in your contribution, and in accordance with privacy restrictions set out in the BBC's Privacy Policy. If you do not want to grant to the BBC the rights set out above, please do not submit your contribution.

2. CSN and the BBC reserves the right to refuse any entry for any reason at its absolute discretion.

3. No contributions will be returned and shall become the property of CSN and the BBC. It is therefore advisable for each contributor to retain a copy where appropriate.

4. Contributors must submit only their own original work and agree that this will not infringe the copyright or any other rights of any third party.

5. Contributors must be the sole author(s) of the entry. 

6. By submitting your contribution :

6.1 warrant that your contribution;
6.1.1 is your own original work and that you have the right to make it available to the BBC for all the purposes specified above;
6.1.2 is not defamatory; and
6.1.3 does not infringe any law; and
6.2 indemnify CSN and the BBC against all legal fees, damages and other expenses that may be incurred by CSN and the BBC as a result of your breach of the above warranty; and
6.3 waive any moral rights in your contribution for the purposes of its submission to and publication on CSN and the BBC.

7. Acceptance of these rules is a condition of submitting a contribution and receipt of your contribution by CSN amounts to acceptance of the rules.

8. CSN and the BBC shall not be obliged to make use of any contribution and shall not be liable for any loss of publicity or enhancement of reputation.

9. Contributions are made at the contributor's own expense and CSN and the BBC shall not be liable to reimburse any expenses incurred in making an entry (except where more specifically provided).

10. Contributions must not contain defamatory, obscene, unlawful or objectionable material.

11. All contributors must be a teacher or a student at a school that is part of cardiffschools.net. (Cardiff Council School).