Please read below and follow, except for one small change — #4 should say for this class “This has been a student production of the Art, Computer-Science, and Film-Studies Departments at University of North Carolina Wilmington.”

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The Spring 2013 End-of-Semester Student Film Screening will be held in King Auditorium on Tuesday, May 7 @ 7pm.

Film Studies majors may submit projects completed in any 300 or 400 level FST course for screening consideration.  A faculty committee will select an evening’s worth of submissions and announce the program on Monday, May 6.

SUBMISSION DEADLINE AND GUIDELINE INFORMATION (please follow carefully):

1.       Films/videos must be submitted by 2pm on Friday, May 3 (no late entries will be accepted).

2.       An End-of-Semester Screening folder in the media drive of computer 20 in the edit lab (the computer next to the sound booth) will be set up with two folders ~ one for .mov files and one for

          project information.

3.       Submission Format: All projects must be submitted as Quicktime movie H.264 files. For instructions on how to properly compress your film as an H.264 data file, see the bottom of this e-mail.

         *** Please include 2 seconds of black at the beginning and also at the end of your film

4.       Projects must include the end credit in their video: “This has been a student production of the Film Studies Department at the University of North Carolina Wilmington” No Abbreviations.

5.       .mov files need to be given the name of the film itself (i.e. “1001 Uses for Clown Makeup” *not* “Final Edit,” “Doc Final,” etc.)

6.       Please also create a Rich Text Format document (.rtf) formatted exactly as below (please make sure your are saving this as an .rtf and not .doc or .docx):

Project Title (run time including credits) FST course number Course Name

Director Name(s):

A short description/synopsis of the project (25 words or fewer).

*For example:*

1001 Uses for Clown Makeup (7 min.) FST 302 Intermediate Documentary

Director: Smedley Jones

A short documentary about the variety of colors contained in a kit of clown makeup and how they are being used by today’s generation of clowns.

For more information, please contact Andre Silva at silvaa@uncw.edu

Instructions for Exporting video in the H.264 format:

To export a quicktime movie of your project in Final Cut Pro in the H.264 format,

follow the steps listed below.

1. In Final Cut Pro: File > Export > Using Quicktime conversion.

2. A window will pop up. In the “Save as” box name your project and save to the

appropriate place.

3. Still in the window – toward the bottom you will see “Format – Quicktime Movie

- Options.” Click on “Options.”

4. A second window will open. Under the Video heading, click the “Settings . . .”

option (a third window pops open) and select “H.264″ as the compression type if

it is not already set and make sure the “Quality” is at best. Click “OK,” to close

this window.

5. Then, again, under “Video” in the second window, click the “Size” option.

6, For “Dimensions” choose either 1280 x 720 or 1980 x 1020 depending on the size of your project sequence.

7. Make sure that your sound settings are 48KHz 16bit.

8. You can uncheck “Prepare for Internet Streaming.”

9. Click “Save.” Your project may take a few minutes or more (depending on the

length of the project) to export.