DIGITAL SLIDESHOW COMPETITION

​Rules and Guidelines

Presentation Date: January 31, 2024
Slideshow Due Date: January 17, 2024

​​Digital Slide Show Competition
 
This is your chance to demonstrate your photography, creativity, and imagination in the Digital Slide Show competition to be presented at the meeting of January 31, 2024
Don’t miss this chance to experiment, learn new tricks, and have some fun. The judges will consist of club members and guests in the audience. Judges will be asked to consider how well the following elements work together to create an imaginative, entertaining, and original presentation: theme, image quality, editing, story flow and pacing, music, sound effects and commentary, and titles.
 
Rules:

• Your presentation may be on any subject of your choosing.
•  An identifying title must be included.
• For this competition, the maker’s name must NOT be included ANYWHERE in the presentation.
• The presentation must be no longer than four (4) minutes. It may be shorter.
• Submissions will be accepted by various methods: WeTransfer to [email protected] or on a USB key with your name clearly indicated on the key. The file must be in .mov or .mp4 format.
• Presentations should be self-running (stand-alone, independent of the software used for their creation).
• The presentation must be submitted no later than the date indicated on the 2023-2024 Calendar, so that it may be tested and a judging list prepared. Please note that we no longer accept entries on the evening of the competition.

 
Helpful links:

Royal Photographic Society (RPS)—Introduction to AV (Slideshows):
https://rps.org/groups/audio-visual/making-an-av-sequence/

Royal Photographic Society (RPS)—Audio Visual Master Class: https://vimeo.com/523689606

MCC YouTube video about the process of preparing a slideshow:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6eT_Xncx_0k&t=19s
 
Margaret White
[email protected]