Video Contest

This page is intended for operators wishing to organize a video contest event in their own country. Operators (it can be universities, organizations, schools etc.) should communicate with us and we will guide them on how to conduct it.

Below you will see the general context and the regulations of such an event.

Participating with video recorded theatrical play

The participation with video is a special category of the activity. The schools that will choose to participate in that way will have to perform their theatrical play in a venue of their choice, record it and submit it to the organizing team. After this, the videos will be uploaded to the dedicated online space, reachable by the schools participating.

The results of the video performances will be announced online before the realization of the first final event. Also every time at the closing ceremony of the final events the awards of the video contest will be announced so that representatives of the awarded schools will have the chance to receive their award live if they desire so. The ones that cannot be present during the live awards will receive theirs in electronic form.
The videos will also be viewed at the final events (out of contest).

All the participants must be informed that all the theatrical plays (live or video recorded) will be uploaded on the internet. So it is of high importance that the consent of the parents will be provided for the participating students. In case that the educators have not gathered the relevant parents’ consent, the organizers bring no responsibility.

Regulations

• The theme of the performance should come from a field of science
• The duration of each performance must strictly not exceed 20 minutes. The schools will have to adapt their performance to this timeframe, or else their play can be presented in the final event but out of competition.
• In no case is the use of external visual material allowed unless it is used as sceneries. If the video is different to the philosophy of the contest (eg a short movie/documentary) it will be viewed the final events only if there is sufficient time during the ongoing program.
• At the beginning of each video, the name of the school and the title of the show have to be  clearly displayed (it is not counted on the 20 minute limitation).
  At the end of each video, all of the factors must be visibly displayed (it is not counted on the 20-minute limit).
• The activity’s target groups are students aged 12-16 (first grade of middle school – second grade of high school), and primary school students aged 9-12
• Cooperation between schools (of the same grade)  is allowed. They can participate with a common theatrical performance
• There is no restriction as to how many students can participate from every school
• Responsible for the activity must be at least one educator though even more should be encouraged to help, especially from fields like Physics, Biology, Philology, Arts, Computer science etc.
• In case a school uses audiovisual material from the internet, the participants should check its license

Awards – Excellences

Awards criteria

• Best performance in total

• Best script

The criteria that define the winner of this award are the evaluation of the original script or the adaption od an already existing one and the correlation to the scientific concepts.

• Best direction

• Best music

For this award the originality of student composition, selectivity, ingenuity & correlation with script, association with scientific concepts and live performance are considered.

• Best sceneries and costumes

Here is evaluated the creativity and the correlation to the script and the scientific concepts of it.

• Best choreography

This prize is awarded following an evaluation of the performance of choreography, its association with the script and the scientific concepts.

• Dissemination and promotion

This award is given on the basis of an evaluation of a set of actions to disseminate and promote the activity, such as the creation of promotional material (poster), the use of social media to promote the performance (creation of a special facebook page and number of “likes”), finding supporters from the local community as well as any other promotional action. All this should be submitted in a special form that will  be sent by the organizers.

• Best participation in the activity

This prize is awarded to the school that will collect the highest rating from the sum of the categories: script, direction, music, sceneries and costumes, choreography, dissemination and promotion.

Evaluation in the Video contest

The jury will consist of organizers’ experts and the evaluation is divided into 3 parts:

• Primary School Evaluation
• Middle School Evaluation
• High School Evaluation