Lights, camera and action! Essence’s Model Rocketry Review (“EMRR”) has announced that its new Rocket Video – 2008 Contest has started. Win a prize! The contest is really easy. Wow everyone with your way cool video, whether it’s on-board video from your rocket or using the hand-held. Spice it up with titles, transitions or music and include people if you like, but don’t forget the rocket!

The instructions are:

• Rated "G"; including language and musical lyrics
• Hobby rocketry (any power level)
• < 15 Meg is size
• < 3 Minutes Long
• MPEG, WMV, or MOV (e-mail EMRR if different)
• A Screen shot for posting (clicking on it will get the movie)
• Your original work or with permission of another hobbyist
• Title
• Write-up must give basic information and details
• Include a small award acceptance speech (published if you place)... just like the EMMY awards

Sponsored prizes include:

• Mini GearCam – Booster Vision;
• Flying Saucer – Art Applewhite Rockets;
• SpaceCAD – SpaceCAD;
• XP-Raptor – Qmodeling;
• Kraken – Pemberton Technologies;
• Spaceship Handbook – ARA Press;
• Electric Match set – RocketFlite; and
• More – donated by EMRR Guests.

EMRR Guests will judge entries during a voting week starting September 29, 2008. Contestants must be on EMRR's eList to be eligible. Only one entry per Contestant, and HURRY! Entries must be received by 9/28/2008.

For more information, visit EMRR at http://www.rocketreviews.com/ and click on "Contests."

07-21-2008 07:21 PM  #1
DAllen Certified Level Two   Joined: Feb 2007 Posts: 40	Re: EMRR announces the Rocket Video – 2008 Contest EMRR has the bestest contest. I only wish I had more time to enter them. -DAllen

07-21-2008 11:48 PM  #2
UncleVanya If pigs had fins...   Joined: Sep 2007 Posts: 2797	Re: EMRR announces the Rocket Video – 2008 Contest Quote: EMRR has the bestest contest. I only wish I had more time to enter them. You got that right. I really enjoyed the most recent one just wrapping up (Box-O-Parts). On this one it isn't just a lack of time - I don't have the experience or equipment (Video Camera) to try this. Rocket Kyle's Southern Thunder video is too long for the contest but it shows just how great video's like this can be.

07-22-2008 12:05 AM  #3
Adrian A Featherweight Altimeters   Joined: Nov 2007 Posts: 201	Re: EMRR announces the Rocket Video – 2008 Contest After watching Doug Gerrard's Saturday night at the movies at the last NCR launch, I'll go out on a limb and say that if he enters, it will be no contest. We're talking 1000 frames per second of high-quality film and years of cool flights to choose from. He has a clip looking down at a big scale Saturn V that could be mistaken for that cool Apollo liftoff movie except there's no ice falling down, and the rocket has clear plastic fin extensions. And the skidmark videos are just phenomenal. I don't think I'm going to bother doing rocketry video after seeing that because he does it done better than I thought it was possible to be done.

07-22-2008 12:25 AM  #4
UncleVanya If pigs had fins...   Joined: Sep 2007 Posts: 2797	Re: EMRR announces the Rocket Video – 2008 Contest Quote: After watching Doug Gerrard's Saturday night at the movies at the last NCR launch, I'll go out on a limb and say that if he enters, it will be no contest. We're talking 1000 frames per second of high-quality film and years of cool flights to choose from He has a clip looking down at a big scale Saturn V that could be mistaken for that cool Apollo liftoff movie except for no ice falling down, and the rocket has clear plastic fin extensions. And the skidmark videos are just phenomenal. I don't think I'm going to bother doing rocketry video after seeing that because he does it done better than I thought it was possible to be done. Are any of these available online?

07-22-2008 05:36 AM  #5
denverdoc Rana sapiens   Joined: Aug 2007 Posts: 2815	Re: EMRR announces the Rocket Video – 2008 Contest UV, Doug mentioned some has been transferred to DVD and is available. Saturday nite at the movies, Warren Musselman dubbed this "rocket pornography"--meant as the highest compliment and dead accurate. Actually its better than any porn I've seen--jaw dropping ga-ga kind of cool as the skids molten titantium hits the tower and does an incandescent dance in higb rez 40x slo-mo. Adrian is absolutely spot on when he says doing video almost seems pointless. Doug got back into the hobby expressly for the intent of doing video, has been pursuing this passion with great skill and diligence for a decade, and while I have seen some cool stuff, this guy is Rembrandt. The on-board stuff is state of the art (as good or better than NASA) but the real fun are the amazing tower sequences at 8 to 25x slo-mo in film quality. Wow. (NASA should hire him for the next documentary and folks would stop grumbling about costs). Issue 70 of Extreme Rocketry did an in depth interview with Doug. Here is a website now 7 years old describing his L3 project: http://www.rocketryphotogr...s/RocketsMyMindsEye.html That was what a decade ago--he has been busy since!

07-22-2008 04:18 PM  #6
UncleVanya If pigs had fins...   Joined: Sep 2007 Posts: 2797	Re: EMRR announces the Rocket Video – 2008 Contest Quote: Doug mentioned some has been transferred to DVD and is available. For sale? If so where do I get one?

07-22-2008 05:09 PM  #7
denverdoc Rana sapiens   Joined: Aug 2007 Posts: 2815	Re: EMRR announces the Rocket Video – 2008 Contest I'll try to find out for you--unless someone else knows--the impression I got is that it was another group who purchased the rights to some footage, so I don't think it's thru Doug directly. I'll be curious to see how well the film transferred.