Starcraft2Forum.org Promotional Video Competition!

Hey guys, we're looking for a few promotional videos to post on YouTube and other sites to promote our forum. It's a relatively simple competition, just follow the guidelines and be creative. The videos will be judged collectively by the Moderators and the best chosen will be featured as the site's "official" promotional video and will be promoted on other web sites.

Guidelines:

1. Your video must have a Starcraft 2 theme in some way. It doesn't matter what it is, but it must relate to Starcraft 2 in some way. Be creative!

2. Humor is encouraged.

3. The forum logo must appear at least twice in your video, and one of those showings must be the full logo with the .org at the end. Please e-mail or PM me if you would like copies of the forum logo.

4. The video must be at least 30 seconds in length and no more than 4 minutes in length.

5. The video must have a theme song of sorts.

6. There is an additional category and bonus for use of NateSMZ's "Hell, it's About Time" rap as a theme song. This is not a requirement for your video, but is encouraged.

Prizes:

First: The video judged the best representation of the forum will earn the maker 10,000 minerals, a worker drone, and promotion of the video on a number of fan sites and on YouTube as the official SC2Forums video.

Second: The second place video will receive 5,000 minerals, a pet of less than 5,000 minerals value, and promotion of the video on YouTube as an official SC2Forums video.

Third: The third place video will receive 3,000 minerals and promotion of the video on YouTube as an official SC2Forums video.

Secondary Category: The best video that utilizes NateSMZ's "Hell, It's About Time" rap as a theme song will receive 5,000 minerals and a worker drone, in addition to becoming the official Music Video for NateSMZ's rap. This video will still be eligible to win the above prizes as well.

To Enter:
Retain a copy of your video in any readily playable format as a high quality video. Then post your video on YouTube with whatever title you choose. Then PM me with the url to the video.


Good luck to all participants! Submissions must be entered by March 10th, 2008.

 

This is a great idea! But I won't enter because I can't make videos. :no:

 

Same here, but I will be waiting to see the winner!

 

me three, but only because of the time limit...

im currently working on a video project about starcraft in general...

i could probably include this forum in the "Who is Starcraft?" section...

but there is a time limit...

damn...

its to the song Strength of the World by Avenged Sevenfold...

 

What's wrong with the time limit?

Too short?

 

*BUMP*

Please let me know if you're planning to participate in this competition. Thanks.

 

*BUMP AGAIN*

Seriously, is anyone participating in this competition?

 

I am trying to make sense of this movie I am making.

 

LOL

Anyone else, please post your intention to participate here. Thanks!

 

IM JOINING!

so can i make 2 vids for 1st and 2nd category?

why is the deadline so early?

in the meantime check out my long time ago lost starcraft 1 tribute video. lol

http://youtube.com/watch?v=-6pdmxpK1EU

 

Great video, glad you're submitting.

I only allowed a month for production because we need the videos done soon. Thanks guys!

Oh, and technically, yes, you could make a video for both categories.

 

thanks.

i hope i can make a good one, im quite busy with my studies these days. =\

 

http://www.starcraft2forum.org/index.php?option=com_smf&Itemid=47&topic=6055

I made that 2 days ago, so i'll just pass it onto here. READ THE POST BELOW ON THAT THREAD.



EDIT: Okay, i have finished, it took me around 3 hours in total, so please take the time to look at it.

Man, i had to use MPEG, cause .wma sucked in quality, took an hour just to upload!


REMOVED VIDEO, Due to new rules.

*private*

 

BUMP, for Jon of course.

 

The video was nice, it showed some forum features and I got the message from it. But that music degrades the overall result and it's not just a matter of taste - when you create a video for a game, the emphasis is on the visual content and the music is there to create a certain atmosphere while trying to appeal to as many people as possible. A good choice for that would be to use mainstream (soft) rock or punk pop. Your choice made me mute the thing and from then on I was already distracted.

Here are some vids that have a nice music to them. Even though it's a completely different genre and game, you will get the idea:
http://www.my3id.com/video/content/883/igtc-2007-recap.html
http://www.stage6.com/LFS-SPAIN/video/2188386/Welcome-To-LFS-2
http://youtube.com/watch?v=icPLe39SoU4
3 different choices of music but they all go with the video content and are close to (if not actually are) mainstream (which has a much higher chance of being accepted by most of the audience) or otherwise achieve the desired effect (like the epic movie music one).

Verdict: it's a nice attempt at a base on which to expand on but in it's current state, I hope it doesn't become the forum promotional video.

 

There are haters, then there are lovers. xD

Also, they're about cars, i was going to give it new music, but then i scrapped the idea cause i had to get to bed.

I might re-edit the music

 

I wanna know how to make a video, anyone wanna help me?

 

Not really, video editing is an art that must be learnt by one'self.

 

Since you don't really like me or w/e I'm not asking you.

 

just use windows movie maker and import some vids and music and cut clips and put them together to make your own music video etc.

but imo windows movie maker sucks bad although its the program i use. any one here know other good video editing programs like windows movie maker?