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Video Format
You can use any recording device to record your video clip (such as a cell phone), clips should be no shorter than 60 seconds and no longer than 3 minutes. Upload the video to http://www.YouTube.com/FEMA by responding to the video that requests submissions. Submissions will be chosen on the basis of content, helpfulness in encouraging preparedness, and general clarity of your message. Good quality cell phone videos can qualify, make sure your lighting and audio will come out well before shooting the video!

Criteria
Any video format that can successfully be uploaded to YouTube will qualify for a submission. Qualified submissions must include the term "Ready.gov" somewhere in the title of the video.

Your video will be reviewed by Ready and be featured on our Web site (www.ready.gov) if your submission is approved, and it will help thousands of people to prepare for emergencies and natural disasters.

Possible reasons for rejection include: poor video quality, excessive background noise, poor lighting, video volume "too loud" or "too soft", offensive language or content, failure  of video submission to play correctly, video length issues [too short or too long], irrelevance to the subject matter, or incorrect or omitted contact information or email for submission.

If you don't already have a Youtube account, you can create one here: http://www.youtube.com/signup?next=/fema

For examples of preparedness videos, you can review FEMA's Youtube Channel http://www.YouTube.com/FEMA

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rTThc8jp1Ew

TRANSCRIPT:

Hi, I'm Beverly [inaudible] and I work for the Intel Corporation in [inaudible] Arizona. And even though Arizona doesn't have a lot of disasters, you always have to be prepared, so what I've done is I have my 3 days of water, I have my flashlight, I have a kit together, plus I have an evacuation plan and I've done the same with my family; because I want them to be just as prepared so if something happens, like the unexpected, that they're ready to do the same thing. So, we're prepared, and I hope that everyone else gets prepared even though the unexpected, you never know when its going to happen.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mF4kDFxMvpM

TRANSCRIPT:

Hi everybody I'm Chris, I'm with Booze Allen Hamilton Inc. out of Leavenworth, Kansas. Out here in Middle America, we all know that we need to take care of ourselves. So we personally are responsible for our own protectiveness. So, making sure that you have the right warning systems in your house so you know what's going on, you keep track of the weather, and you know where your family is at all the time, have a communications plan set up, and then have the food and an evacuation plan and that type of stuff all together is the smartest thing for Americans to do out here in the central part of the United States.