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2011
RidgeDance NanoScience Film Festival
CALL FOR CONTENT
Deadline
for submissions: September 9, 2011
The CNMS
is planning to present the 6th edition of its popular RidgeDance
NanoScience Film Festival during its 2011 User Meeting.
The festival features entertaining, short videos depicting nanoscience
research submitted by CNMS users, meeting attendees, colleagues abroad,
and CNMS staff. (See last year's RidgeDance program here.)
You are invited to submit a video for the festival as described
below. The submission deadline
is midnight, September 9th. 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 `11 NanoScience Film
Festival. Use the convenient web-fillable
form.
2. UPLOADING
YOUR VIDEO. Maximum upload size is 300MB. If your material exceeds
300MB, 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(s), 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
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 be viewed and
heard in a large screen venue. Although epics are welcome, run times
normally range from 3 to 7 minutes. However, this is simply a goal,
and one shouldn’t opt out simply because you think your material
misses the mark.
4. If
you don’t have a video - no problem - we will accept stills,
and with your permission, will put together a montage. 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 video, so please zip
it up, send it, and we’ll see what we can conjure up (with
your permission, of course).
5. In
our experience, we can handle all mainstream video formats and codecs,
so simply use whatever is familiar to you. 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 (
CD or
DVD).
7. Most
of all, have fun!
*Standard definition is 480 lines, which means your clips
must be 480 pixels high. If you render to anything else besides DV,
which is 720 pixels wide, please use a width of 872 pixels, if you
like widescreen, and 656 pixels, if you prefer full screen.
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!): “A
simulated dodecane fluid gets caught between a rock and hard place,
and does the only thing it knows how – it phase transitions,
of course.”
“Carl Sagan once said, “Imagination will often carry us
to worlds that never were, but without it we go nowhere.” That’s
exactly where this little chlorine atom is going – nowhere!”
Mailing
Address:
Chris Rouleau
Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Chestnut Ridge, Bldg 8610, Room J-146
Oak Ridge, TN 37830-6488
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