iBlog Video Contest for Bloggers

iBlog: The 6th Philippine Blogging Summit is coming up. In line with this the organizers launched the iBlog video contest and encourages all bloggers to join. This contest is organized as a means to celebrate how blogs and the bloggers behind it are:

• Changing lives - their own and/or of those around them;
• The way blogs allow them to communicate their ideas and thoughts;
• The way establishments, whether profit or non-profit, use blogs and bloggers to reach out;
• and many more..

Mechanics:

1. Contest is open to all Filipinos, 18 years and old above.
2. The video should be not be less than 30 seconds short or more than 10 minutes long. It should capture what blogging means to you, or highlight how blogging has changed your life, helped you earn, promote a project or cause, or some other similar theme.
3. Mandatory components:
   - a video or image snippet of iBlog website or photo or video snippet of a past iBlog event in the video.
   - at the end of the video, state that:
   This video is an entry to the iBlog video contest (http://www.iblogph.org)
   
4. Deadline for submission of entries is 5:00 p.m. of March 7, 2010. All entries will be sent via CD or DVD (in a format that allows it to be uploaded via YouTube and Facebook) along with the entry form (to be linked here shortly) and mailed or delivered to:
   
   Institute of Government and Law Reform
   c/o Atty. Michelle San Buenaventura-Dy
   U.P. Law Center
   Rm. 106, 1st Floor Bocobo Hall, Diliman, Quezon City
   1101

After the deadline for submission of entries, a list of all eligible entries received will be posted and acknowledged in one blog post.

Criteria for judging

• Concept – 30%
• Visual artistry – 20%
• Editing and post production – 20%
• Production value – 20%
• Overall impact – 10%

Prize:

• The winner will be announced on April 17 during the iBlog event and will receive an iPod 8GB Nano.

For  more details you can email iblogvideocontest@gmail.com or visit http://iblogph.org.