Broadcast Television

Upload your media art from the past school year to compete against the best in the Midwest. All media arts will be uploaded through FilmFreeway

A student or program may only enter ONE category per project. Limitations to the number of projects submitted and time limitations are listed under each category. Please select the best single category to fit your project submission.

Upload Competition

  • No time limit. Limit 1 submission per school.

  • Maximum Time: 1 minute or less. Student produced opening for any show. Entry will be judged on creativity, composition, and editing.

  • Maximum Time: 15 minutes. Submit an excerpt your program's best Livestream. Please label/include timestamps of your highlights. This category will be judged on camera moves, switcher cuts, and overall product.

  • Maximum Time: 10 Minutes. Human Interest entries will be judged on the basis of journalistic and video coverage, which demonstrate awareness of broadcast journalistic standards, including accuracy and storytelling. Judges are looking for well-organized material, clearly written narration and appropriate sound bites. Judges also look for video composition and relation to the narrative.

  • Maximum Time: 2 Minutes. News Story entries will be judged on the basis of journalistic and video coverage, which demonstrate awareness of broadcast journalistic standards, including accuracy and fairness. Judges are looking for well-organized material, clearly written narration, and appropriate sound bites. Judges also look for video composition and relation to the narrative.

  • Maximum Time: 10 Minutes. Video must relate to narrative, have composition relevance and capture the spirit of the sport. Judges will look for well-organized material, clearly written narration, and appropriate sound bites.

Please note: Upload Contest submissions will be selected to air as Screeners during the festival. This is so cool to know that thousands of people are viewing your work!

Awards will be given during the opening ceremony on October 15 in downtown, Springdale.

During OMAF25, students will compete in On-site Competitions on the first day of the festival. Students will have 4 and a half hours on DAY 1 to create content from start to finish. Prompts will be available to registered teams just after the Opening Ceremony, and winners will be announced and shown at the Closing Ceremony of OMAF25.

Onsite Competition

  • Teams will receive a prompt and have a set time to finish their story. Remember, this is a journalism contest, so no pre-planned ideas and everything must be true and accurate. The topic will allow you to shoot on-site at the convention center, but with permission by your advisor, can be filmed off site. The final story should run no more than 2 minutes. Pay attention to overall production values, a strong script, and story to provide the judges a thorough and complete package.

  • Teams will receive multiple Press releases and have to write a second script, deciding which stories to prioritize. The final entry may not be edited. Turn in a one-take, one-shot performance. Begin with the anchors introducing themselves and at the end, finish with “For the Ozark Media Arts Festival, I’m (name) and I’m (name).” Judges will look for strong, conversational scripts, order of stories presented, storytelling, transitions, and professionalism. Lighting and audio are a concern and will be taken into account by judges.