BPA Contest Category: (430) Video Production Team
The Video Production Team category is an on-site contest for Secondary/Post-Secondary divisions. The BPA description of this event is as follows:
Create a three-to-five (3-5) minute video production, based upon the assigned topic.
Here are a few resources to help you with the Video Production Team on-site contest:
- 5 Common Mistakes In High School Broadcasts
- 11 Tips for Creating Better Online Video from SmartBlogs.com
- 13 Steps for Creating a Student News Package
- How to Embed Video from Youtube to your WordPress site
- Broadcast journalism skills, objectives, and learning outcomes
- Broadcast journalism resources and training
- Uploading video to the web
- Audio is just as important, if not more, than the video
- Avoid copyright and use royalty-free music for video production
- Perspective: Why you shouldn’t use music in broadcast stories
- Alternatives to Copyright Music and Materials
- Mini-lessons for advisers when news cycles are slow: Natural Sound
- 5 Tips & Lessons for shooting B-Roll
- Video 101 Tutorial: How to Shoot Good B-Roll
- Shooting HD video with an iPhone 5s
- The Language of Video
- How to start shooting video
- Lighting for Video
- Use Storyboards to Plan Your Shoot
- Photography and Video skills are a must
- 5 tips to shooting great video
- The reaction in broadcast journalism is just as important (if not more) as the action
- Free storyboard solutions available for download
- Shooting for the Editor
- Mini-lessons for advisers when news cycles are slow: Shooting tips part two – WALLDO
- Mini-lessons for advisers when news cycles are slow: Shooting tips part one – BRoll
- Tutorial: Using Videolicious for mobile editing
- Making Editing Decisions for Broadcast News Packages
- Editing System Differences: Final Cut Pro vs Premiere Pro vs. Avid
- Kobre: 5 Things Missing From Most Online News Videos
- Starting From Scratch: Editing Software
- Editing Videos Online with the Youtube Video Editor
- Reporter Standups for Broadcast
- Write Voiceovers, Not Graphics for Newspackages
- Writing tips for Broadcast
BPA has events in a variety of categories. For the full event list, check out their website here: http://www.bpa.org/compete/eventlist. To see if there is a BPA chapter in your area, you can search here:http://www.registermychapter.com/bpamem/ZipSearch.aspx If there is not, you can check with your State Adviser found here: http://www.bpa.org/about/saac. If your state does not have a chapter, you can join a national virtual chapter. Information on that can be found here: http://www.bpa.org/membership/virtualchapter. While there are no chapter dues, there are annual individual member dues. Dues vary by state. Check with state and national BPA representative for all conference and contest dates.
