Whichever team you are on, your video should be between 1 and 3 minutes long.  It is up to you to decide whether you want to use diegetic sound, nondiegetic sound, or no sound.

For the Montage Teams:

• Each minute of video should have between 12 and 23 cuts.
• You must use the full range of framing, from close up (CU) to long shot (LS), and everything in between.
• At least one of the cuts should be a graphic match.
• At least one of the cuts should be a match on action.
• At least one of the cuts must signal a temporal ellipsis.
• You must pay attention to rhythmic editing throughout.
• You must open with a carefully chosen establishing shot and close with the same shot, but you can change elements of the mise en scene within the shot.

For the Long Take Teams:

• Your shots must average 23 seconds.
• Within the limits of your few shots, you must use the full range of framing, from close up (CU) to long shot (LS), and everything in between.
• At least one of the cuts should be a graphic match.
• At least one of the cuts must signal a temporal ellipsis.
• You must pay attention to rhythmic editing throughout.
• Pay attention to the careful construction of verisimilitude through mise en scene, depth of focus, and shot relation.
• You must open with a carefully chosen establishing shot and close with the same shot, but you can change elements of the mise en scene within the shot.

Parameters (for all teams)

• You may not use any additional people to appear in your video: that is, only people in your group can participate in this project, whether behind or in front of the camera.
• Your video does not necessarily need to tell a full story (though it can); consider how you might effectively communicate a brief incident or anecdote or even a thematic exploration.