We couldn’t be more impressed with the way in which the Gizmodo community has pushed their photography skills with Shooting Challenges . So today, we’re expanding the postulate with a once-a-month expansion called the Video Challenge . Our first topic: time lapse.

So How Will This Work?

With the present Shooting Challenge , you get somewhat under every week to email us your photos that we carry and decide. With Video Challenges, we’re providing you with much more time, but we simply cannot handle the HD videos internally. So we’re using Vimeo. And to keep the projects reasonable, all clips have to be 45 seconds or less and begin with content, not slates, credits, colorbars or countdowns. They”ll be due February 9th by 8am Eastern. Results shall be posted on the 11th.

Become a member of our Vimeo group and add your video by the deadline. We’ll then battle through the submissions and highlight our favorites on Gizmodo.

The Rules – READ THESE

1. Submissions have to be your personal, and you need to have rights to exploit all content within them.
2. Videos need to be produced since this contest was announced.
3. Explain, briefly, the equipment, settings, technique and story behind the clip.
4. Tag all vimeo clips ” video challenge” and ” time lapse”
5. All clips should be 45 seconds or less…
6. …and begin with content, not slates, credits, colorbars or countdowns.
7. Entries need to be uploaded to our vimeo group by Feb 9th and 8am Eastern.

OK, on to the Challenge!

We’ll delve more into strict video and editing projects down the line, but we chose ” time lapse” to bridge the space between our photographers and videographers, to welcome those of you who understand digital imagery but haven’t done much editing.

As with Shooting Challenges, interpret the challenge as you love. Capture a time lapse of any length by taking photos of a scene in a hard and fast interval and combining them into 45 seconds of video. Oh, and we allow soundtracks, voice overs and the rest you should add relating to audio. Just be sure to have rights (or the rights are open) to exploit the content. Note: We’re not searching for stop motion animation.

The Method

I usually link several how tos in this section, but you’ll only need one this time. Photojojo’s Ultimate Guide walks you during the process while remaining highly readable.

The Example

The lead clip is of the ” Perseid Meteor Shower and the galactic core of the Milky Way as seen from Joshua Tree National Park.” We prefer to just call it magic.

Good luck, everyone! I will be able to’t wait to peer what you do with video.

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