Notes from the iBOM judges
iBOM entrants may notice that the categories in the iBOM results are slightly different from the original categories. The judges made some decisions in the process, and we would like to share some of their observations with you.
- We had 59 people submit more than 170 entries among the 10 categories. By far, “PRO INDIVIDUAL VIDEO PROJECT” had the most entries with 95 pieces. There were far fewer “Team” projects than ever before
- The judges asked to combine all team (pro team slide show, pro team video and pro team multimedia project) and student categories (student slideshow, student video, student multimedia project) due to low entry numbers and quality issues in each of the categories.
- Just a reminder, if your multimedia contest entry is market private (several were), judges can’t view it and it was disqualified. We highly suggest you don’t do this.
- Also, if your multimedia contest entry link doesn’t work (several didn’t), your work was disqualified. We highly suggest that you post your video on Youtube, Vimeo, your personal site, or some stable, trustworthy source that you have control over and know videos won’t expire or break.
- We’d highly suggest for future contests to only enter your best work. Just like in still photojournalism, you will be judged by your worst piece and some of the finalists for the multimedia portfolio of the year got cut because of one or two weak entries when they had several strong entries.