ON-LINE VOTING BEGINS TODAY
From 18 Semi-finalists, Public Will Chose First-Place Winners in Six Competition Categories
- Yoshi Yamada (Photo credit: gregverdino)
SECAUCUS, NJ (March 12, 2012) — Beginning today and running through Wednesday, April 4, online voting to choose the top prize winners of Panasonic s ‘Shoot It. Share It’ video contest is open to the public at www.ShootItShareIt.com. All contest submissions were shot with a Panasonic AG-AF100 Large Imager HD Cinema Camcorder.
The grand prize winner will receive a Panasonic 42” TH-42BT300U Pro Plasma reference Monitor and Vocas Micro Four Thirds to Prime Lens adapter, prizes valued at more than $5,000.
For the past month, aspiring filmmakers have uploaded their AF100 short projects to contend for the grand prize as well as the top prize (a Vocas Matte Box and Rail system) in the six competition categories (short film, documentary, commercial, music video, nature and wildlife, and student film).
A panel of judges composed of Panasonic’s Pro Video personnel have selected the top three semi-finalists in each category on the basis of filmmaking /shot design, creativity/inventiveness and the ability to convey a unique vision. The semi-finalist projects are now posted online and the public can flex their film critic skills by logging in and voting at ShootItShareIt.com for the first-place winner in each category. A panel of judges will select the grand prize winner.
All the winners will be announced during the NAB 2012 show in Las Vegas, NV (April 16-19), as well as on the contest web site.
To learn more about the ‘Shoot It. Share It’ video contest, visit www.ShootItShareIt.com.
About the Panasonic AG-AF100
The AF100 incorporates a large 4/3-inch, 16:9 MOS imager (with an imaging area just slightly smaller than 35mm cinema film) that minimizes skew with fast imager scanning, and incorporates an optical low pass filter for elimination of aliasing and moiré. The camcorder records 1080 at 60i, 50i, 30P, 25P (Native) and 24P (Native), and 720 at 60p, 50p, 30p, 25p and 24p native in AVCHD’s highest-quality PH mode (maximum 24Mbps). The AF100 also records in AVCCAM’s HA (17Mbps) and HE (6Mbps) modes, 1080i only. Ready for global production standards, the camcorder is 60Hz and 50Hz switchable. Equipped with an interchangeable micro 4/3-inch lens mount, the AF100 can utilize an array of low-cost, widely-available still camera lenses as well as film-style lenses with fixed focal lengths and primes. Variable frame rates (VFR) are available in 1080p, selectable in 20 steps from 12p to 60p at 60Hz and 20 steps from 12p to 50p at 50Hz. The camcorder has a built-in stereo microphone and features two mic/lines, switchable XLR inputs with +48V Phantom Power capability. For more information, visit www.panasonic.com/broadcast.
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About Panasonic Corporation of North America
Based in Secaucus, NJ, Panasonic Corporation of North America provides a broad line of digital and other electronics products and services for consumer, business and industrial use. The company is the principal North American subsidiary of Osaka, Japan-based Panasonic Corporation (NYSE: PC), and the hub of Panasonic’s U.S. branding, marketing, sales, service and R&D operations. Panasonic was the only Consumer Electronics company to be listed in the top ten brands on the Interbrand Best Global Green Brands 2011 ranking (http://www.interbrand.com/en/
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Jeremy T. Hanke
The director of two feature length films and half a dozen short films, Jeremy Hanke founded MicroFilmmaker Magazine to help all no-budget filmmakers make better films. The second edition of his well-received book on low-budget special effects techniques, GreenScreen Made Easy, (which he co-wrote with Michele Yamazaki) is being released by MWP in fall 2016. He's curently working on the sci-fi collaborative community, World of Depleted, and directed the debut action short in this series, Depleted: Day 419 .