Sources And Citations: Creative Spark Video Contest

Sources

Your video must have closing credits. Remember that the credits are not included in the time limit for a video, but should not themselves take longer than another 60 seconds.

Your credits should be a list of all the sources of your footage, images, music, and sound effects. For our contests, your material must be your own work or taken from one of the websites listed below.

Footage: Find footage you can use (and must cite, of course) at the Internet Archive and this Vimeo channel. You can also download and use Creative Commons-licensed material from YouTube, as long as (like everything else) you provide a proper citation. YouTube videos which are CC-licensed may be used as footage, but not solely for music purposes. When taken from YouTube, only music from the YouTube Audio Library can be used in a submission to one of our contests.

Creative Commons LogoImages: Unsplash, Pexels, Openclipart, Wikimedia Commons, Pixabay, or Flickr (MUST be Creative Commons licensed - for Flickr, we HIGHLY recommend you use search.creativecommons.org and choose the tab for Flickr, as this simplifies getting copyright-friendly search results)

Music: Uppbeat, Bensound, ccMixter, AudionautiX.com, Incompetech.com (the material on the Incompetech site was created by Kevin MacLeod, who has kindly given permission to students to use his material as part of contests for NextVista.org), or the YouTube Audio Library. YouTube videos which are CC-licensed may be used as footage, but not solely for music purposes. When taken from YouTube, only music from the YouTube Audio Library can be used in a submission to one of our contests.

For this contest, students in Utah may also use content from Soundzabound, as there is a statewide license covering all public schools, and the Utah Education Network is working with Next Vista to promote the contest.

Sound Effects: There are extensive libraries at Freesound and Orange Free Sounds, as well as the free section of Partners In Rhyme.

Citations

Your closing credits should be a list of all the sources of your footage, images, music, and sound effects. These sample citations should help you decide how to plan your credits, an essential part of any successful video.

Footage: List the name of the video clip used, artist, and site from which it was downloaded. Follow these examples:

Annie Oakley
by Thomas Edison Company
public domain
from Internet Archive

Free HD Stock Video - Time lapse sunset
by Johann Mynhardt
from Vimeo

Images: List the name of the image, the name of the person who uploaded it, and the site. Note that the reason for going through the Creative Commons page is to insure that what you use will be copyright-friendly. If the image is one you took or created yourself, you must also provide a citation listing the date you created it. Follow these examples:

Lamanai, Belize
by joiseyshowaa
from Flickr.com

Woman Standing Up Reading
by GDJ
from Openclipart.org

My Younger Brother Throwing a Tantrum
by Your Name(s)
taken December 2011

Music: List the name of the piece, the artist, and the site from which it was downloaded. If the piece is one you created or recorded yourself, you must also provide a citation listing the software you used to create it. Follow these examples:

Urban Desert
by Stefan Kartenberg (featuring Javolenus)
from ccMixter

My Angst
by Your Name(s)
created in Garage Band

All That
from bensound.com

Sound Effects: List the name of the effect, artist, and site from which it was downloaded. If the effect is one you created or recorded yourself, you must also provide a citation listing the software you used to create it. Follow these examples for citing what you use:

BooWav
public domain
from PartnersinRhyme.com

Students Laughing
by Your Name(s)
created using Audacity

If your video uses only footage, images, music, and sound effects you created, with no extra material found elsewhere that you added to the final product, finish by indicating that all content in the video was created by you. Follow these examples (adding your own name, of course):

All content in this video was created and taken by Your Name(s).

This video only contains footage, images, music, and sound effects created and taken by Your Name(s).