Jerome Public Library

Use the library's Flip video camera to make a video in the library.  Give the file to us and we'll upload it to our YouTube account.  Get freinds and family and complete strangers to vote for your video so you can win your own Flip.

And here is the fine print: Contest is open to all people who are eligible to participate in teen summer reading.  Videos must be shot entirely inside JPL.  You can use our Flip or your own video camera, or any other means you can dream up.  To check out our flip, you're going to have to tell us your idea.  If you shrug or say "idunno," we'll hand you a piece of paper and a pencil so you can dream up a plot or storyline.  MashUps are fine, as long as you use media that is legally free.  If you do a MashUp, at least 50% of your video must portray JPL.  About portraying JPL.  Use good sense.  We won't upload your brilliant video if it would offend my grandma.  Just follow the rules; Respect yourself, Respect others, Respect the space.  If you borrow our Flip to make your video, it must stay in your possession the entire time you are using it.  When you are done, personally hand it to a staff member.  Don't hand it to a friend for any reason.  The person who checks it out is the person who edits the video is the person who is enters the contest.  Be very careful with our Flip.  We only have one, and you don't want to be the loser who breaks it.  Get your own actors and film crew.  Clean up after yourself, and don't obstruct normal library use.  We will post the videos on YouTube! 

Prize: Teen Store Tickets and a monthly prize for the best entry that month!

Filmmaking Tips

• Think of your audience.  You want to win?  Make a video that large numbers of people would find appealing.
• Plan your film before you check out the camera.  If you don't know where to start, look here and here.
• Unless you are already a whiz-kid movie maker, plan to do the sound seperately from the video and add it during the editing phase.  The built in speakers in most video cameras won't do a great job.  Think narration or music video.  If you are really ambitions and meticulous, you might try to voice-over your video.
• Watch good YouTube videos to get ideas.  I have some great videos on my iPod touch, and if you ask me, we can set up a time to view them on the library's T.V.
• Avoid shaky video!  Stabilize, stabilize.  Those shaky videos and roller coasters both make me sick.  They make grandma sick too.
• Have fun.  Express Yourself.  Get the filmmaking bug.  Be a YouTube star!