REQUIREMENTS FOR SUBMISSION OF MATERIALS

REQUIRED AND OPTIONAL MATERIALS

There are required and optional materials to be submitted to present the entries. Please refer to each group’s requirements for submission of materials.

  • Required materials will be shown for the judging, screened and/or exhibited during the Festival, screened at the award ceremony, should the entry be awarded, as well as published in the entries showcase on www.goldendrum.com.
  • Optional Awards show film, if submitted, will be screened at the award ceremony, should the entry be awarded. In case the entrant does not submit the awards show film, the organizer reserves the right to screen only the first 60 seconds of the original video at the award ceremony.
  • Other optional materials can be submitted to better present the entered work in a context and will only be shown for judging, if submitted. Upon request from an entrant, these optional materials may be published in the entries showcase on the Festival's website.

There should be no agency branding on any materials submitted.

Agency names and logos should not appear on written submission, entry URL in videos or any other submitted materials. Agency may only appear in an entry submission in case their case is self-promotional.

It is the sole entrant’s responsibility to submit entries with correct credits.

Materials presenting the entered work should be of high quality and in line with the technical requirements. The Festival organizer does not bear any responsibility for poor quality of materials submitted and will be presented as submitted.

No actual samples of entries are required in any groups. 

FORMATS OF MATERIALS SUBMITTED

Please check the requirements for submission of materials for each Group.

VIDEO

Video materials must be uploaded as MP4 files only and within a length defined for a particular group.

 Please upload a video with the best possible resolution and within the file size limit. Should you wish to upload the file size of your video larger than 360 MB, please contact us at entries@goldendrum.com.

ResolutionFull HD (1920x1080 px), 16:9 Widescreen (preferable)
Frame rate25fps
Scan typeProgressive
Video codech.264 (min 15 - max 40 mbps)
Audio codecAAC (min 160 kbps), 44KHz
ContainerMP4
File sizemax. 360 Mb

SCREENSHOT (of the video)

Screenshots are a required material for entries that have video materials.

They will be screened at the award ceremony, should the entry be awarded.

Please submit screenshots that have as little as possible written on them, since credits for this entry will be written over them.

Screenshots must be uploaded as JPEG files only.

FormatJPEG
Colour spaceRGB
DPI72 DPI
Size1920 x 1080 px
File sizemax. 6 Mb

IMAGE

Images must be uploaded as JPEG files only and in the following format:

FormatJPEG
Colour spaceRGB
DPI300 DPI
SizeThe longest side must be at least 420 mm
File sizemax. 6 Mb

AUDIO

Audio files must be uploaded as MP3 files only with the following specifications:

Bit rateMinimum of 192 kbps and maximum of 258 kbps
File typeMP3 (stereo) with a compression ratio of 22:1
File sizeno single MP3 should be over 10 MB

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