Bridge Day 2006 Video Festival

[Donk]

Bridge Day 2006 Video Festival

This is a reminder that the 2006 Bridge Day Video Festival will be held Thursday night, October 19th, at the Holiday Inn bar "Rafters" from 9:00 PM - 12:00 AM.

Last year’s festival was the best year yet with amazing entries from our winners BC Production’s – As The Rush Comes, Nate Varns’ – Thread The Needle, James Boole’s – Mucho BASE, and the Triax’s T-stake promo; additionally we saw some great stuff from Adrenaline Exploits, Ill Vision, Team FX, and many others.

Some info and changes for this year:

We plan to pre-screen the videos to get a more “sober” assessment of each video prior to the event. After some post Bridge Day reviews of the videos, some of us felt that a few pretty great videos were overlooked by the inundation of similar footage, drug and alcohol goggles by the 10th video , or just being distracted by the great crowd and such. We will still accept entries at the event but they will not have the advantage of the pre-screening, and if we have reached the 10 video limit already then it will be at the judges discretion how many more they are willing to see beyond that.

We will also be lowering the number entries to 10 and 5 standbys to fill in for any one of the 10 that do not show or if time, the judges, and crowd want more. First come, first serve. There is no limit on the pre-screened entries so have your video in by October 1st.

If delivering it in person, email me the entry form by October 1st and have your video to us no later than 7:00 that evening. At a minimum, please let us know you will be

bringing a late entry by October 1st via email. We will have all the forms available in Rafters for walk-in entries starting at 5:00 PM.

To continue the effort to make the Bridge Day Video Festival one of the premier BASE video festivals in the world, we will keep the cash prizes added last year in addition to the other prizes Jason is in the process of acquiring.

1st: $500.00
2nd: $200.00
3rd: $100.00
Honorable Mention: $1.00

Not bad for an event without any entry fee.

We will also be announcing the three winners and showing the winning videos to the Saturday night crowd at the close of the briefing in the large conference room.

Comments from last year's event:
Please follow the "10 minute" rule or have a 10 minute "Trailer" of your full length production.

If your entry is unedited or a "rough-cut" please have it queued to the beginning and pay close attention to the time. Once again few entries got cut short before their "money shot" because the video went well beyond the 10 minutes and/or the judges asked for the next video.

Please keep in mind that the judges have to watch 10 - 15 of these and it can get pretty grueling, so have your best ready to roll.

Also, pay close attention to when your video is going to be played so that you can introduce the video (optional) and monitor the playback.

DVD (NTSC) and MiniDV only.

Judges:
We will need a few judges. Same deal as last year; the judges get free drinks and munchies during the course of the event.

Please don't hesitate to contact me with any questions or suggestions.

PM: donk@kc.rr.com Phone: (913) 908 - 3043

The link to the official Bridge Day Video Festival site is here and the new form will be added shortly (last years form is fine too):
http://www.bridgeday.info/videofest.php

Thanks and I am sure that everyone is looking forward to another great year of some amazing videos that feature the best of the best, most knarly, hilarious, and inspirational videos shot since last year.

Tony "Donk" DiCola
11184 Antioch, # 198
Overland Park, KS 66210 – 2420
donk@kc.rr.com
(913) 908 - 3043

PS: The videos don’t necessarily have to be from 2006 but entries from previous years will not be allowed.

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