Assignment

Assignments for the national phase of ESC

Please refer to your national site of ESC to get all the information about assignments in the national phase of this competition:

Assignments for the European phase of ESC

Participating teams will have to make a video in which they will try to answer the question: “Why are official statistics important in our society?”.

Videos will be preferably in English, although videos in the national language with English subtitles will also be valid.

Videos will have a maximum length of 2:00 minutes.

Along with the videos, participants will have to prepare a pdf document explaining the creation process of the video, including the users they would like to reach, the techniques used (and the reasons to use them), decision making process, the sources of statistical data (in case of using them), etc. This document will have a maximum of 2000 words and a maximum extension of 4 pages.

Videos must not infringe any third party copyright or trademark, or violate the rights of any person or entity. Teams need to be sure only use content in their video that they are authorized to use, including, without limitation, music, images, film clips and other intellectual property.

Evaluation criteria

When evaluating the selected videos, the jury of the European phase of the ESC will take into account

• The creativity of the video
• A convincing message according to the question raised
• The effectiveness of the video to get its message across
• The concordance between the pdf document and the video