Student Filmmakers: Enter 'Tsunami Preparedness' Contest

SAN DIEGO COUNTY, CA – Aspiring high school student filmmakers -- or teams and clubs -- are invited to submit a public-service announcement video with a tsunami-preparedness theme as part of a contest sponsored this month by the County of San Diego Office of Emergency Services.

The challenge is to create a video teaching people how to be ready for a tsunami or respond if one hits, and the selection judged most effective will be featured on the county's news website and social-media channels during this year’s Tsunami Preparedness Week, March 25-29.

Videos must be submitted by March 22, and will be judged by Office of Emergency Services staff, local and state emergency managers, the National Weather Service and county communications staff with the winner announced by March 28, officials said.

The contest is open to individual students, high school audio/visual clubs, video production and graphic design classes and Associated Student Body teams. Entries must consist of original material and be between 30 to 60 seconds long in an MP4 format, with no violence, profanity or drug depictions. Students can use any style including animation, stop-motion, graphics or live-action to get across the tsunami-preparedness message.

For information on the contest and on tsunami preparedness, visit 2019 Tsunami Preparedness Week PSA Contest – Ready San Diego.

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