The YouTube Creator Institute is a new media school for aspiring content creators of all kinds, forged by YouTube, USC School of Cinematic Arts, and Columbia College Chicago. It is designed to provide promising creators with a unique new media education, hands-on technical training, and promotion.
USC and Columbia College will judge the final round of applications that were voted on by the public via YouTube, and the 10 entries that receive the highest overall scores for each school will be selected on May 2.
In addition to free response questions to be evaluated, videos were to be shorter than 2 minutes with no music and are judged on:
- Creativity, originality, innovation (45%)
- Technical video making ability (25%)
- Availability and desire to participate (10%)
- Overall feeling and mood of the piece (5%)
- Artistic merit (5%)
- Potential for development (5%)
- Coherent story, message or theme (5%)
Thank you to all for voting, and I look forward to sharing the results with you on May 2!
