1. VIDEO GUIDELINES
2. HOW TO ENTER
3. RULES
4. JUDGING PROCESS
5. PRIZES!
6. THE TOOLKIT

• Create a promotional video for The Walt Disney Family Museum – we’re celebrating our first year anniversary!
• Be creative! Be funny! Innovative ideas, characters, scenery, costumes, and props will be judged favorably.
• Videos must be at least 30 seconds in length—no longer than 2 minutes, max.
• The Walt Disney Family Museum must be mentioned or displayed visually in the video, and contain these three things:
1. Tell us why Walt Disney matters!
2. Include one photo of Walt Disney, provided in the TOOLKIT below.
3. Feature San Francisco or a San Francisco landmark, mentioning the location of The Walt Disney Family Museum in the Presidio of San Francisco.

• Videos must be tasteful and family-oriented. Any videos containing inappropriate or copyright protected content will be immediately disqualified and removed from the contest.
• Make our lawyers happy. Consider working with the approved visual images in our The Walt Disney Family Museum Toolkit. (download at the bottom of this page, Toolkit).

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• View the Contest Launch Video on YouTube at http://www.youtube.com/user/WDFMuseum.
• Under the video, click the button that says “Post a Response”. YouTube will prompt you to either select a video file currently on your computer, choose a video you have previously uploaded to YouTube, or record a video from an existing camera attached to (or built into) your computer.
• When you have completed selecting/uploading your video, The Walt Disney Family Museum will automatically be notified that your video is ready for approval.
• Send an email to The Walt Disney Family Museum with "The Walt Disney Family Museum Anniversary Video Contest” in the subject line. In the body of the email, please provide your name, address, telephone number, valid email address, YouTube username, and the link to your video on YouTube.
• Per the official rules (found at http://wdfmuseum.squarespace.com/contestrules), please attach a signed consent form for each person appearing in your video.
• Once your video appears in the response tab on the launch video page on YouTube, you are officially in the running. Don’t forget, the number of views your video receives on YouTube will be taken into account when determining the semi-finalists, so be sure to promote your video with family and friends!
• By submitting an entry you agree to all terms and conditions of the Official Rules and Regulations posted at http://wdfmuseum.squarespace.com/contestrules as well as YouTube’s general Website Terms of Conditions, which can be found at http://www.youtube.com/t/terms.

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• All video submissions must be posted to YouTube between September 27, 2010 at 12:00am PST and November 15th, 2010 at 11:59pm PST. All entries must be uploaded to YouTube to participate in the contest. The Walt Disney Family Museum will not accept files sent via email.
• While multiple persons may wish to create an entry together, there must be a single individual contestant officially representing each entry.
• No contestant may submit no more than two videos.
• Contestants must be 18 years of age or older, must have access to the Internet, must have or register for a YouTube.com account and must have a valid email address and telephone number.
• Employees and Volunteers of The Walt Disney Family Museum or its affiliated entities, La Terasse, as well as the immediate family (spouse, parents, siblings, and children) and household members of each such employee and/or volunteer are not eligible to participate in the contest.
• The contest is limited to contestants residing within the United States, except residents of New York, Florida, Rhode Island, Puerto Rico, territories of the United States and wherever taxed, prohibited or restricted by law.
• Please ensure that you have read and agree to the Official Rules and Regulations on the CONTEST RULES + REGULATIONS PAGE: http://wdfmuseum.squarespace.com/contestrules.

• Five videos will be selected by The Walt Disney Family Museum YouTube committee to be semi-finalists, based on creativity, relevance, and adherence to the guidelines, rules, and regulations listed above.
• The number of views each video receives on YouTube will be one of several factors considered in selecting the semi-finalists, so be sure to promote your entry with your friends, family, and coworkers!
• The three winners will be contacted by The Walt Disney Family Museum, and the announcement will be posted on the contest page of STORYBOARD, The Walt Disney Family Museum’s blog, and Website.

• GRAND PRIZE:
  • Private tour for four of The Walt Disney Family Museum
  • 3-hour personalized video editing, or animation/claymation workshop, in our state-of-the-art Media Studio
  • KODAK Playsport camera: kodak.com
  • Dinner for two at La Terrasse in the Presidio of San Francisco
  • Dual One-Year Membership to the Museum
  • Complimentary gift bag from the Museum store
  • Copy of “The Man, The Magic and the Memories”, autographed by Richard Benefield and Diane Disney Miller

• Second Prize:
• Free admission for two to The Walt Disney Family Museum
• Individual One-Year membership to the Museum
• Complimentary gift bag from the Museum store
• Copy of “The Man, the Magic and the Memories”, autographed by Richard Benefield and Diane Disney Miller
• Lunch for two at The Café

• Third prize:
• Free Admission for two to The Walt Disney Family Museum
• $50 gift certificate to the Museum Store
• Copy of the “The Man, the Magic and the Memories”

Valid from January 2011 to December 2011




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THE TOOLKIT: As all entries must be original work and may not infringe on any intellectual property rights, we’ve provided this Toolkit (downloadable here), which contains 10 copyright protected images that you may use solely for inclusion in your Entry. Remember, we want you to be creative in the creation of your video, so these images are merely suggestions to inspire you in the making of your Entry. These images may not be reproduced in any manner for any other purpose or for any other use of your Entry by you or any other person without the prior consent of the copyright owner. Use of these images other than as expressly permitted in these Rules and Regulations will be deemed an infringement of the owner's intellectual property rights.





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