Past C-SPAN Video Competition Winners

The three C-SPAN video competition winners that I chose were the Childhood Obesity video (first prize in 2010), the Job Loss video (second prize in 2009) and the Freedom Of Speech video (second prize in 2010).

One thing that I noticed about all of these videos was that they consisted almost completely of interviews and videos. There were very few still images, which kept the videos from becoming dull. Very rarely did I see the actual kids faces in the video. Another thing that I noticed was the difference between the 2009 and the 2010 videos in terms of video quality and editing.

The kid who did the video on job loss and the economy in 2009 seemed to have less technology available to him, but he made up for it by getting three very good interviews, one with a state representative and one with a US representative. The video on childhood obesity had a lot of images as well, but the video with by far the most interviews and visuals was the freedom of speech video. In fact, it was entirely interviews, and by doing so the kid got a lot of intelligent people to put out well thought opinions on his subject. By doing so, he probably didn't have to do much script writing at all.

There wasn't too much key framing or video transitions in any of the winners videos, just basic interviews and videos, that sent out a strong message.

So even though I already have a pretty long script and a lot of still images, I plan on getting as many interviews and C-SPAN videos as possible to add variety to my project.