Nikon Festival - nice work

This is just a quick observation that I wanted to share. 

I really like the Nikon Festival: Your day in 140 seconds or less competition. The whole online experience is so clean and simple. There's great creativity already in the work on the site - and a nice twist that it's a film competition from what you would normally think of as a stills camera. Plus, the substantial prize pool ($100,000) suggests to me that they're putting their budget into making this great and hoping it will get passed on through photography forums rather than spending it on media. 

I also love how they've squeezed a few honest brand values into the judging criteria (01&02 especially):

01. Quality of video: Looks matter. So when you’re shooting keep technique in mind. Watch the composition and the clarity of the shot

02. Originality: If it’s been done, don’t be doing it again. Show us something fresh.

03. Ability to capture the theme within 140 seconds or less: This isn’t the 142-second video festival, so make sure you tell your story in the allotted time.

Will I enter? Maybe?

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Comments

[faris]

thanks! i did that.

well i didn't like do it but it was like my idea ya dig?

hearts! FX

[Tiffany]

Nice one Faris. I should have known :-)