Here's an entry from James Thompson and David Goligorsky for the Stanford Global Innovation Tournament. This is an annual competition that challenges students to "add value" to a particular common object and make a 3 minute film showing how.


There's about one week between finding out what the common object should be and finally uploading the video. The video was brainstormed, storyboarded, shot, edited, etc. in a three day sprint squeezing time from in between other graduate coursework.


The common object for 2008 was the water bottle. Hundreds of films were submitted. This film won the Ingenuity Prize and subsequently won the Audience Prize at the awards ceremony.


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Click here to see the video in ASCII