Seasessions Expression Session upgraded to an ASP event

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Heres some info on the surf side of seasessions 2011.

The Sea Sessions Quiksilver Expressions in 2011 which has been upgraded to an ASP Speciality Event. The ASP who run the world tour of surfing has sanctioned only a few Speciality Events in Europe and this will be the first ever to hit the UK or Ireland. The speciality events place emphasis on allowing surfers the freedom to free surf and go for bigger moves. Head of ASP Europe Gregorie Puget stated it is “ Great to see Quiksilver get into the thing, great to see Irish surfers enter as it will be a great opportunity for ASP Europe to highlight theses kids' performance, far from the usual South West Coast of France and Basque Country” . The ASP are sending over their top water photographers to capture the action. Local Irish surfers will be given the chance to compete against top European Surfers in the expression session for bragging rights, €5000 in cash, festival hospitality among many other prizes. Surfers already confirmed are former World number 3 Aussie Mick Campbell, Welsh legend Carwyn Williams ,Damien Chaudoy from Reunion Island/France, English ripper Oli Adams and Irelands top free surfer Cain Killcullan. There is a strictly limited number of contestants, entry fee is €20 and if interested in entering email seasessionssurf@gmail.com

Online Comp
In addition to our Expression session comp we have an online comp for the best turn/air. We have 3 categories open, U21 and bodyboard. The best 5 or 6 will be posted on our website with some great prizes for the surfer and camera person of each category. The waves must be filmed during 2011 and within the island of Ireland.
Short film
Sea Sessions is hosting the “Go Big or Go Home” extreme sports film festival in 2011 which will show case the best of extreme sport films from around the Globe. More details will follow on this. As part of this film festival we are having a short surf film competition. The competition is aimed at budding surf movie makers within Ireland. There will be cash prizes for the winners. Below is the entry Guidelines for the shorts. So for your opportunity to reach this audience and be part of the “GO BIG OR GO HOME” family, submit today!

Email seasessionssurf@gmail.com with submissions.
Entry Guidelines:

Your film should fit the following criteria:
1. Be an amateur production.
2. Be filmed and produced within the past 12months.
3. Be no longer than 10 minutes.
4. Deadline date 1st April 2011
4. Comply with the video formats outlined below.
5. Agree that your film may be utilised in part or in full as a part of promotional activities for the “Go big or go home film festival” & “SEA SESSIONS SURF & MUSIC FESTIVAL”
6. By submitting your film you have agreed to these conditions

These criteria have been put together to ensure that the quality of all submitted films screened at the GBOGHFF & Sea Sessions remains as good as when they were originally edited and are the best possible representation of the artists work.

Here are the technical requirements…
1. Shoot your video footage in the highest quality allowed by your video camera.
2. Shoot, edit and save your footage using 'Progressive Scan', rather than 'Interlaced' video i.e; 480p, 576p, 720p, 1080p and not 480i, 576i, 1080i.
3. Save your video edit in the highest quality possible (the higher the quality you give to us, the better your film will look during the competition).
Formats such as AVI, MOV, MPEG-1, MPEG-2 & MP4 are file 'containers' and have no bearing on the quality of the video or audio. The CODEC used to compress the video and audio is the deciding factor in the final quality. Aim to use the best quality codec you can and with the lowest compression rate.

Examples of high quality video codecs are:
H.264 (also called 'MPEG-4 Part 10' or 'MPEG-4/AVC')
DV (progressive scan)
DivX & XviD (quality should be set to very high/max)

Please try to provide your film entry in the form of a video file and not as a DVD, SVCD, VCD (this will help us to maintain the video quality of your film).

Ultimately, we will accept film entries in any and all video formats. However, ensuring you maintain as much of the original video quality of your footage as possible, can only mean you will have a better chance in the competition