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2007 RIDGEDANCE NanoScience Film Festival
CALL FOR CONTENT
Deadline
for submissions: September 28, 2007
The CNMS
is planning to present the second edition of its popular RIDGEDANCE
NanoScience Film Festival during its 2007 User Meeting.
RIDGEDANCE 2007 will feature entertaining, short videos depicting nanoscience
research submitted by CNMS users, meeting attendees, and CNMS staff.
(See last year's RIDGEDANCE program here.)
You are invited to submit a video for the film festival as described
below. The submission deadline
is midnight, September 28, 2007. However, if you have a late submission,
please email Chris Rouleau to
ask whether it can still be accepted.
1. Please
assist our planning by letting us know of your intention (not binding)
to submit media for the RIDGEDANCE `07 NanoScience Film
Festival. Use the convenient web-fillable
form.
2. UPLOADING
YOUR VIDEO. Maximum upload size is 200MB. If your material exceeds
200MB, please choose another video format or simply mail
us a data CD or data DVD. Once your file size is correct, go to
this link
http://www.ornl.gov/~ncsgroup/fileupload.shtml and do the following:
After you click a browse button, choose your file, and click the
Upload File(s) button, you will see a page called File Upload Results.
Note
that the File Upload Results page may take a long time to appear
as the delay is entirely a function of your file size and network
traffic.
Once the page appears, enter your email address in the first box,
leave the subject box as-is, and then enter rouleaucm@ornl.gov in the second
box. The last box is optional, and may be used to provide Chris
Rouleau with additional information concerning your material. Once
complete,
press the Send email button.
3. Our
goal is to receive standard definition* videos with titling and stereo
soundtracks that have sufficient quality to pass “listening” and “viewing” tests
in a large screen venue, while maintaining reasonable file sizes for
run times that may be a maximum of 10 minutes in duration, with 3-7
minutes strongly preferred. However, this is simply a goal, and one
shouldn’t opt out simply because you think your material may
miss the mark.
4. If
you don’t have a video - no problem - we will accept stills,
and with your permission, will put together a photo montage in the
spirit of Ken Burns. The same goes for other material that you wish
to show, but haven’t found the time to render to video – we’re
actually pretty creative and willing to work with you to create a short
production, so please zip it up, send it, and we’ll see what
we can conjure up (with your permission, of course).
5. As
far as we can tell, we can handle all mainstream video formats and
codecs, so simply use whatever you’re familiar with. That
said, keep an eye on file size, and therefore format/codec, if your
goal is to get us your clip via file upload.
6. Once
completed, you can upload your video or zipped folder of material
to us, or if you prefer, mail us the content
on disk (data
CD or data
DVD).
7. Most
of all, have fun!
*Standard
definition is 480 lines, which essentially means your clips must
be 480 pixels high. The width, on the other hand, should
be 872 pixels if you like the look of widescreen, and 656 pixels if
you prefer the look of full screen. You might be asking yourself, “But
I thought standard definition was 720x480, so why are you requesting
videos that are 872x480 or 656x480?” The answer lies in the fact
that as opposed computer pixels, DV pixels are wider than they are
tall for widescreen, and narrower than they are tall for full screen.
The precise ratios are 1.2121 and 0.9091, respectively, and when multiplied
by 720, and rounded to become a multiple of 8, become 872 and 656,
respectively.
Titles
from some of last year’s hit movies:
FOMMS
2000: The Movie
Spin City
Cracking DaVector Code
Dueling Diblocks
Examples of short descriptions to be read before playing your clip
(please include with your submission but note that our MC reserves
the right to improvise!):
“Can you make nanotubes with just the heat from an industrial
laser? This 2003 sequel to the blockbuster Nanotube Inferno stars Henrik
Schittenhelm at the Center for Laser Applications as he blasts unsuspecting
powders and pellets to make nanotubes. Henrik finished his postdoc
and returned to Germany, while the laser is now in building 4508 at
ORNL.” Directed and Produced by Dave Geohegan
“Atomistic
simulation of driving a single strand of DNA through a nano-electrode
gap comprised of 2nm wide electrodes by applying electric
field along the gap. This simulation is part of a project at ORNL that
uses a nano-electrode gap as a screening technique to realize fast
DNA sequencing.”
Mailing
Address:
Chris Rouleau
Oak Ridge National Laboratory
1 Bethel Valley Road
Oak Ridge, TN 37830-6056
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