Center Valley, Pa.
–
announced Thursday six finalists
in the “Olympus Pen Your Story Challenge,” who submitted videos to a special Olympus
YouTube website.
The videos showed
what each of the videographers would do with a new Olympus Pen E-PL1 portable
camera hybrid interchangeable-lens camera, offering d-SLR photo and HD video
quality and the compact size and simplicity of a point-and-shoot, and $5,000 to
bring their creative vision to life.
The finalists were
selected by a panel of Olympus judges and the YouTube community from hundreds
of entries.
The selected
entries include the following:
- “The Idea – Olympus Pen
Contest” by comedic duo the DecimalBrothers
- “Olympus – Your Story –
Blading” by sports daredevil Kevin Dowling
- “Olympus Pen Challenge:
Summer Mentor” by positive philanthropist missptv9090
- “Olympus Pen – On A
Bench Parody” by singer-songwriter Ninjapiano
- “Olympus Challenge –
Neenah’s Proposal” by art-house filmmaker SuperNeenah
- “Olympus Contest Entry
– I’m a creator” by creative artist Taylordesignsthings
Only one finalist
who creates the project with the Pen will win the grand prize: a trip for two
to the U.S. Open Tennis Championship to see their work displayed on the giant
video board. The winner will be announced in August.
