The following rules (1 – 7) apply to
entries to both competitions
1. Entrant: All authors and any co-authors must be current members of an MCPF
member club.
2. Entries: A maximum of two AVs
per author may be entered across the two competitions, i.e. two Open AV
entries, two Photo Harmony entries, or one of each. If entering 2 AVs you will
be required to indicate your 1st choice, in case pre-judging is necessary.
Entries should
normally be in a 'stand-alone' format which does not require any addition
'player' on the PC used to project the AVs. Video files may be entered and will
be played on 'VLC media player'. Entries may be submitted on CD/DVD, a memory
stick or by a file transfer program such as 'WeTransfer'.
3. Eligibility: Sequences entered
into any previous MCPF Audio Visual Competition, may not be re-entered
subsequently.
4. Copyright: It is the entrant’s
own responsibility to ensure that any material recorded on the soundtrack, or
visually shown, is appropriately covered against copyright infringement. If
copyright music is used, the entrant must quote their IAC license number.
5. Projection of
Entries: A digital projector with a resolution of 1920px * 1080px, a PC
computer and sound system will be provided. All entries will be downloaded on
to the computer’s hard drive for projection, and will then be erased following
the judging session. However for those selected to be shown at MidPhot
Exhibition in March, a programme will be created and written to a memory stick
for the exhibition organisers’ use only.
6. Entry Form and
Fee: An entry form must be completed by each entrant, and submitted together
with a fee of £10 for the first entry, £6 for a second.
7. MidPhot Exhibition: A selection of AVs from
both competitions will be chosen by the judges and organisers, to be shown at
MidPhot exhibition later in the year.
Rules 8 & 9 specific to the Open AV
competition
8. Photographs: It is expected that
all photographs used in the AV will have been taken by the author, unless the
subject matter requires images which, for historical or safety reasons, could
not have been taken by the author. Video may be included but should not
dominate the AV.
NB - For PAGB Distinctions, the advice is no more than an aggregate of 25% of third party images, graphics and video, in photographs or duration
9. Duration: The duration of any OpenAV must not exceed 12 minutes.
NB - For PAGB Distinctions, the advice is no more than an aggregate of 25% of third party images, graphics and video, in photographs or duration
9. Duration: The duration of any OpenAV must not exceed 12 minutes.
Rules 10 & 11 specific to the Photo
Harmony competition
10. Photographs: All photographs and
any post processing must be the work of the author or co-author. Neither third
party images nor any video are allowed.
11 Duration: The duration of any
Photo Harmony AV must not exceed 6 minutes
Conditions of Entry
The submission of a
completed entry form implies the acceptance of all these ‘Conditions of Entry’
