CAGE Video Competition 2023
CAGE Video Competition 2023
Wednesday 25 Jan 2023Calling all budding filmmakers – the CAGE video competition 2023 is now open!
We’re inviting Warwick Economics undergraduate and MSc students to create a 3-minute video summary of one of our research papers.
CAGE publishes economics research on diverse topics from tax to transport, wellbeing to political preferences, economic history to the environment. We want our policy-driven research to shape debate, drive decision-making and change minds. We are always working to make our research more accessible and to reach as many people as we can. We have a fantastic YouTube library of video explainers and we’re looking for new student talent to add to our resource.
The winning video will be published on the CAGE YouTube account and promoted on our website. (Our 2022 winner so impressed our judges he was even commissioned to produce further videos for the centre!).
The winner will also receive prize money of £500.
Interested? Take a look at the competition brief below.
The deadline for submission is Sunday 5 March
To submit your video, please contact cage.centre@warwick.ac.uk and share you video using Files.Warwick.
If you have any questions, please email cage.centre@warwick.ac.uk.
The brief
Create a video based on one of these three research papers:
1. Financing UK democracy: a stocktake of 20 years of political donations (Mirko Draca, Colin Green and Swarnodeep Homroy)
2. How to increase housing affordability? Understanding local deterrents to building multifamily housing. (Amrita Kulka, Aradhya Sood and Nicholas Chiumenti)
3. Freedom of the press? Catholic censorship during the Counter- Reformation. (Sascha Becker, Francisco Pino and Jordi Vidal-Robert).
Criteria:
Videos should be no more than 3 minutes long They should be animated (be as creative as you like) with subtitles. Voiceover is optional. No actors or ‘talking heads’ please. Target your content at a general audience: keep your message clear and simple, focus on two or three findings and draw out a clear conclusion. You can use graphs and images from the research paper or the magazine articles linked above (you may recolour these if you’d like). Make sure they are easy for non-experts to read and understand. Please do not use music or images that you do not have the rights to. Please ensure that you credit the title and authors of the research at the start of the film. You must include a slide at the start of your video with the words ‘CAGE Video Competition 2023’ and your name.
Submissions will be judged on presentation (is the video accurate, concise and engaging?), visual appeal, visual consistency and innovation.
Need some inspiration?
2022 video competition prize winner (Jacob Liebenberg)
Race related research in Economics
Telling a complex story in 3 minutes (EconFilms)
Using uncomplicated imagery to make a big impact (Econimate)
Creating a great video with simple tools (Sameera Bhalotra-Bowers)