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Student Video Competition

Use your creativity, learn new skills, and enhance your CV – and we’ll give you £400[1] and expose your talent on the Aston University website!

 

 **The competition is now closed.**

Create a 60 second video showing what you think makes the LSS student experience unique! Your video will go through our panel of professional and academic judges – with the favourite video winning £400 and the runner-up £200 in vouchers (from a choice of Tesco/Amazon/STA Travel). All short-listed videos will also be made publicly available on the LSS Section of the Aston University website.

The competition is open to all current undergraduate students in the department of Languages and Social Sciences (this includes LSS students studying Combined Honours and IBML).

Our judging panel will select videos according to how creative, engaging and original they are: 

  • Thomas Barnett, General Manager, Yield Development TUI Travel PLC

  • Catherine Thompson, Business & Technology Management Graduate, Unilever

  • Professor Simon Green, Deputy Dean, School of Languages and Social Sciences

  • Nick Birch, Video Producer for Media & Learning Technologies at Aston

  • David Pollard, LSS Learning and Teaching Support Manager

How to enter


**The competition is now closed.**

LSS Student Video Competition
LSS Student Video Competition
LSS Student Video Competition

Entry requirements

  • Students can work alone or in groups up to a maximum of three people (the prize must be split between group members)

  • The video should be a maximum of 60 seconds

  • The video should not include music unless composed and performed by yourself

  • The video should not include copyrighted images, logos or clips without permission from the copyright owner

  • Signed written consent must be obtained from any individuals captured in the video

  • Signed written consent need not be obtained from individuals in small groups, crowds or classrooms of people. However, it is courteous to obtain verbal consent

  • The video must be suitable for viewing by people of all ages and cultures

How to produce your video

Support is available from Sarah Hayes and David Pollard in NX04:

  • 1 day loan “flip” video cameras

  • Documentation and help with video editing using VideoPad software

  • Advice on copyright

Video pad is on the PCs in North 10 computer rooms, or you can install it on your own PC. It is free to download from: http://www.nchsoftware.com/videopad/index.html. You can of course use other software that you might have installed on your computer – but please check that it can output the avi or wmv format

Any questions, please contact Jasmin Simms, email simmsj1@aston.ac.uk

Happy Filming!

[1]£400 worth of vouchers - from a choice of Tesco/Amazon/STA Travel vouchers