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Universities Nationwide Compete In Extreme DVD-Making Competition
Long Beach, CA 10/14/2003
Project Pioneer 2880 Takes Script to DVD in 48 Hours Using All Digital Technology
LONG BEACH (October 2003) – Pioneer Electronics (USA) Inc. announced today that 13 film schools will participate in the second annual Project Pioneer 2880, an extreme DVD-making competition it sponsors. Students will spend 2880 frenzied minutes (two days) in October with a scenario, a cast, a crew, a digital camera and a Pioneer DVR-S606 computer DVD burner to create a five-minute DVD short and compete for part of $20,000 in prize money for their school.
Each school selected to participate in Project Pioneer 2880 will receive a Pioneer computer DVD burner and a $500 stipend to create their five-minute DVD short. They also will receive a one-paragraph story idea on which to base their DVD. From the time they open a sealed envelope with their story idea, students have exactly 48 hours to complete the entire DVD short. Entries will be judged by a panel of industry professionals based on cinematography, screenplay, performance, editing, use-of-technology and overall impression. The winning entry will be screened in January at the 2004 International Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas.
University participants include:
· Academy of Art College in San Francisco, California
· Augusta State University in Augusta, Georgia
· Ball State University in Muncie, Indiana
· Boston University in Boston, Massachusetts
· Brooks Institute in Ventura, California
· Florida State University in Tallahassee, Florida
· Los Angeles Film School in Los Angeles, California
· North Carolina School of the Arts in Winston Salem, North Carolina
· Northwestern University in Chicago, Illinois
· Pepperdine University in Malibu, California
· University of Montevallo in Montevallo, Alabama
· University of Texas in Austin, Texas
· University of Washington in Seattle, Washington
“We’re pleased to be one of the universities selected to participate in the Project Pioneer competition,” said Dr. Sharon Strover, chair of the University of Texas at Austin Department of Radio-TV-Film. “Our students are always eager to work with the latest technology to produce their award-winning work and are up to the unique challenge presented by the Pioneer competition.”
Project Pioneer 2880 teaches the value of teamwork, time and budget management, which are useful skills in any business, particularly the film industry. Most importantly, it showcases the benefits of digital technology for sound and visual effects as well as for quick turn-around and easy distribution. The Pioneer DVD burner enables students to maintain a high quality video product that can easily be shared with others in a way that video-tape never before allowed.
Pioneer was one of the original companies that helped engineer the DVD format and was the first company to offer a computer DVD burner in 1997. Now, as DVD technology is becoming more widespread in its use, Pioneer has shipped more than 5 million DVD burners to businesses and households throughout the world. It has continued its innovative heritage with the recent introduction of an external DVD burner and a slim DVD burner for notebooks. The company’s computer DVD burners support the DVD-R/DVD-RW format which was developed in part by Pioneer, as well as the +R/+RW formats, enabling students to choose from a wide range of writable and re-writable discs to make their DVD short.
More information about the competition and outtakes from the 2002/2003 entries are online at www.pioneerelectronics.com/Project2880/Index.html. Participants in the 2002/2003 Project Pioneer 2880 competition included Florida State University (winner), Academy of Art College (runner up), Los Angeles Film School (runner-up), Brooks Institute, Columbia University, Northwestern University, Sheriden College, University of Oklahoma and University of Washington.
Pioneer Electronics (USA) Inc. is headquartered in Long Beach, Calif., and its U.S. Web address is www.pioneerelectronics.com. Its parent company, Pioneer Corporation, is a leader in optical disc technology and a preeminent manufacturer of high-performance audio, video, computer and cable equipment for the home, car and business markets. The company focuses on four, core business domains including DVD, display technologies, Digital Network Entertainment and components. Founded in 1938 in Tokyo, Pioneer Corporation employs more than 34,000 people worldwide. Its shares are traded on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE:PIO).
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