ANNUAL
UNDERWATER VIDEO CONTEST
OFFICIAL
RULES
1. Each participant must be a current member of the South Shore
Neptunes Skin Divers’ Club, Inc. upon submitting each entry into the Annual
Underwater Video Contest.
2.
Each Video submitted into this
contest must be taken in New England waters.
3.
Each year this contest will begin on
December 1 and end on November 30.
4.
Each entry must be BETWEEN 1 to 5
minutes in length.
5.
Each entry must be accompanied by an
official registration form.
6.
Any and all current SSN club member
may enter this contest 1 time per year. Each video submitted is from one
dive only.
7. Each contestant is responsible for acquiring his/her own
video equipment and must perform their
own editing.
8. The contestant will give the club a digitized file of their
entry. The file will be of a type that is current and readable by the
club’s software at the time. The process to transfer the file to the club
will be any agreed upon method. For example, the current transfer would
include, file attached to email, file on a thumb drive, file copied to a shared
drive.
9. The club will own all entered video to do with
as it sees fit. This would include posting to all mediums the club is
using or will use in the future. The contestant will indemnify and hold the
South Shore Neptunes Skin Divers’ Club, Inc. and all of its assigns harmless
for and against all claims arising from the use of any and all entries submitted.
10. The video must include a title frame which lists
at a minimum, Name, Date of dive, location of dive, Title of video.
ENTRY RECOMMENDATIONS BUT NOT REQUIREMENTS
a.
The video should contain above water
views and narrate at the start and finish and location details
b.
The video should end with post dive
above water conclusion including stats of bottom time, water temp, visibility,
etc.
c.
Length of Video should be 2-3
minutes. Viewers will be watching a lot of similar videos.
The annual prize awarded for the
best judged Video, will be presented at that year’s Annual Awards Banquet
(traditionally held in either January or February of that following year). The
judges will consist of the Officers and Board of Directors of the year the
Video was submitted into this contest. However, if the person entering this
contest is either an Officer or member of the Board of Directors, he/she is not
qualified to vote on his/her entry. Judging will take place during a closed
session of the last Board Meeting of that year (in December) and will remain
confidential until the evening of the Awards Banquet. All Video will be sent to the chairperson of
digital media(see #9) and their accompanying completed registration forms
are to be presented to the Vice-President during the course of the year and
maintained by the Vice- President until the last Board Meeting of the year where
voting will take place.