Audition Submission Instructions

Create a test video and upload it to YouTube

Creating Your Video

You can use your choice of video equipment and software as long as it produces a respectable result. Most cell phones, tablet devices and still cameras have sufficient video quality, however audio quality varies widely. Test your available options and choose the solution with best audio quality and minimal technical effort needed. For example, recording, editing and submitting your audition as a single video using an iPad 2 (or newer) with iMovie can produce a reasonably good quality audition and be comfortably completed in less than an hour.  

Tip: Before recording your entire audition, you may want to record and upload a test video. 

1. Practice and then record your selections. Do not include the metronome sound in the recording and there should be no spoken remarks before or during your selections, except to identify your elected excerpts if appropriate.
   
   
2. Choose the best take of each of your selections. Important note: the audio in your recording may not be edited (e.g., use of studio effects or spliced). The ideal recording would replicate exactly what one would hear at a live concert.
   
   
3. If possible, compile these into a SINGLE VIDEO in the order specified in the audition materials.If you do not have the tools to do this, separate tracks are fine.
   
   
4. Encode your video to prepare it for submission. Click here for YouTube information. or refer to the user manual for your equipment or software.

Submitting your audition: Video upload to YouTube + Email

1. Upload your video(s) to YouTube. if you do not want your video to be visible to the public, be sure to select the UNPUBLISHED option.  For information on how to upload videos, click here or use your favorite web search for "How to upload videos to YouTube" (sorry, these won't work at school, you must do this from home). You are going to send an email with the YouTube link.
   
   
2. Save your original recordings until you have been notified of the results of your audition
   
   
3. Send the following information to evergreenauditions@gmail.com. 

In the Subject line:   last name, first name, instrument, and the month and year of the audition.

Then, in the body of the email, include:

• The URL (link) of your YouTube video(s)
• Your Name
• Your Instrument
• Your school grade level (8, 9, 10, 11, 12) at the time of the audition
• The school you are attending at the time of the audition
• Your city and state of residence at the time of the audition
• Your Telephone number
• Your email address
  
  
• Do not put anything else in the email.

Alternative Method:  DVD (less preferred)

Check the due date for auditions -- this is not a postmark deadline. Your audition must have arrived by this deadline. 

Your DVD must be in a generic format. It can either be rendered as a standard video DVD, playable in a generic DVD player, or can be a universally readable (mac or PC compatible, finalized) containing generic video files. It should not be in the form of a project for your video software. 

Label both the DVD case and the disc with the same information as an email submission.
Do not put anything else on the label.

Leave it in Ms. Weitzsacker's mailbox in the Issaquah High School office or mail it to:

Leah Weitzsacker 

Issaquah High School 

700 2nd Ave SE 

Issaquah, WA. 98027-4319