MediaQuest Student Guide

Purpose:
The sole purpose of Media Quest, for either video or audio, is to encourage creativity.  Show the TRIO community and the world your many talents, whether it be reading your poetry, filming still-shots of your art, presenting a community service announcement, or creating a movie. The key word is CREATE.

Take Responsibility:
Of course, you must take responsibility for your creations; after all, you are representing your program within the TRIO community. Any submission that is deemed inappropriate for an educational program (vulgarity, cursing, etc.) will not be judged.
In addition, you must be intellectually honest. Any submission that does not cite the work of others or does not follow Fair Use Rules will not be judged. The best way to avoid plagiarism is to submit original work.

Have fun:
Being creative is having fun. Enjoy showing-off your talents. Let the world see you shine.

Rules to Remember:

• 3 minutes or less – any submission longer than 3 minutes will not be judged
• Format – Only Windows Media, QuickTime, Flash, and MP3 are accepted
• All submissions must be uploaded through www.etrio.org

Categories:

• Public Service Announcement
• Creative Original Video
• Creative Original Audio
• Documentary

Teams:
A Media Quest submission (audio and video) can have a Team of 1 to 6 individuals. For teams of two or more, the student captain or a program staff must list all participants’ names on the online submission form.

Final Submission for Judging
Your Program Contact elects up to three submissions (total) from your program to be judged nationally, and submits the program's top three through www.etrio.org.

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Fair Use Guiding Questions:  Checklist for Students

If you answer “yes” to the first question, continue down the page to find the type of copyrighted material you used.  If you can answer “yes” to each line item in your category, then your project should pass the plagiarism test.

Copyrighted Material in General
_____ Did you use any copyrighted work when producing your project?

Motion Media:
_____ If you used motion media, have you used less than 10% of the original length in seconds?
_____ Is this amount less than 3 minutes, the maximum allowed?
_____ Did you cite the copyrighted movie sources you used in your project?

Text Media:
_____ If you used text material, is the length less than 10% of the total original work?
_____ Is this amount less than 1000 words?
_____ If you used a poem, is it less than 250 words?
_____ Have you used three poems or fewer from one poet?
_____ If so, do your excerpts include less than 250 words?
_____ Have you used five poems or fewer from a single anthology?
_____ If so, do your excerpts include less than 250 words?
_____ Did you cite the copyrighted text sources you used in your project?

Music, Lyrics, and Music Video:
_____ If you used music, lyrics, or music video in your project, did you use less than 10% of the original work?
_____ Is this amount less than 30 seconds long?
_____ Did you cite the copyrighted musical sources you used in your project?

Illustrations or photographs:
_____ Have you used less than 5 photographs from any one source?
_____ If you are using more than 5 copyrighted images, are you using less than 10% of a collection or fewer than 15 photos?
_____ Did you cite the copyrighted images you used in your project?

Numerical Data Sets:
_____ Have you used any fields from a copyrighted database or data table?
_____ Is the amount you used less than 10% of the entire data table?
_____ Is this amount less than 2500 fields or cell entries?
_____ Did you cite the copyrighted data you used in your project?

Multimedia project:
_____ Have you used a copyrighted multimedia presentation as part of your project?
_____ Did you cite the copyrighted multimedia you used in your project?