CONEJO VIDEO FESTIVAL SEEKING WORK FROM TEENAGERS.Byline: Daily News The deadline is May 31 for entries in the Conejo Teen Video Festival open to teenagers throughout Ventura County. Awards are offered in everything from best documentary to most original and best music video, best screenplay, best cinematography cinematography: see motion picture photography. cinematography Art and technology of motion-picture photography. It involves the composition of a scene, lighting of the set and actors, choice of cameras, camera angle, and integration of special , best special effects special effects, in motion pictures, cinematographic techniques that create illusions in the audience's minds as well as the illusions created using these techniques. , best editing, best actor and actress and best video (for a videographer A person involved in the production of video material. Videographers shoot the images with a video camera (analog or digital) and may perform minimal or extensive editing of the resulting footage. under 15 years old) and overall best video. All entries must be original works completed between June 30, 2004, and May 31, 2005, and all must be written, directed and filmed by the teenagers working on each video project. The general entry categories are documentary, fiction and music video. The documentary and fiction entries cannot exceed 10 minutes, and music videos are limited to four minutes. Festival screenings of the nominees will be held at area high schools June 24 and 25, 2005, and an awards ceremony and screening of the winning videos will be held on Wednesday, June 29, 2005, at 7 p.m. in the Thousand Oaks Civic Arts Plaza's Scherr Forum Theatre. In addition to Ventura County teenagers, those living in Los Angeles County communities such as Agoura Hills and Calabasas neighboring the Conejo Valley are eligible to enter. The entries must be submitted either in standard VHS (Video Home System) A half-inch, analog videocassette recorder (VCR) format introduced by JVC in 1976 to compete with Sony's Betamax, introduced a year earlier. or DVD DVD: see digital versatile disc. DVD in full digital video disc or digital versatile disc Type of optical disc. The DVD represents the second generation of compact-disc (CD) technology. with MPEG (Moving Pictures Experts Group) An ISO/ITU standard for compressing digital video. Pronounced "em-peg," it is the universal standard for digital terrestrial, cable and satellite TV, DVDs and digital video recorders (DVRs). 2 or better formats. Anyone with questions about the competition may call Pete Martinez at the Conejo Recreation and Park District at (805) 381-2793. Entry forms are available at the Thousand Oaks Community Center, 2525 N. Moorpark Road, or the information desk in the second-floor lobby at Thousand Oaks Civic Arts Plaza/City Hall. Information and an entry form may also be obtained on the Internet through the city of Thousand Oaks' Web site at www.ci.thousand- oaks.ca.us/default.asp, under archives. The entry fee is $10 for Conejo Valley residents and $15 for nonresidents. |
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