Adobe Missions video Mission: People Interacting with Food

Mission goal: Create a series of video clips of people handling, preparing, and cooking various foods from different angles and perspectives.

Deliverables: A video clip is a short segment capturing a single action or scene.

• Upload between 100 - 150 video clips per Mission submission of one person or more
• We recommend each video clip to be between 15 and 40 seconds. Longer clip durations and action are preferred
• You can submit up to 5 Missions, but each Mission submission should show significant differences in people, location, or type of food. For each approved Mission submission of 100-150 video clips, you will receive the payment amount displayed in the Contributor Portal, with the potential to earn up to 5 times the payment amount
• Consider participating in the Video Mission: People Eating & Drinking by capturing video clips from the same shoot
• Keywording and retouching are not required
• No need for metadata or post-processing
• Submission deadline is July 26th, 2024, at 6:00 PM CET.

Technical requirements:

• Orientation: Horizontal
• Resolution: HD or 4K
• Video format: MOV, MP4
• Max File Size: 3.9 GB
• We prefer the following codecs: H.264, ProRes, PNG

Important information:

• Video clips submitted to Missions should not currently be in Adobe Stock
• Generative AI content is not accepted
• Model releases are required for this Mission
• Payment processing for accepted submissions can take up to 15 business days

Casting: We are open to seeing diverse people representing various ages, races, ethnicities, genders, sexual identities, body sizes, and physical abilities.

• You can submit up to 5 Missions, but each Mission submission should ideally feature different people
• If reusing the same people, ensure each Mission submission varies significantly in people's appearances (such as clothing changes) and locations to maximize submission variety

Mission guidance: Each Mission submission should include 100-150 video clips with a focus on capturing detailed hand and body movements of people interacting with food. Consider capturing your video clips in the order that the food is prepared, from start to finish.

• Food types: fruits, vegetables, snacks, meals, traditional dishes, fast food, baked goods, desserts, hot/cold drinks, dairy products, seafood, etc.
• Hand movements (close up): chopping ingredients, stirring, mixing, kneading, plating, serving, pouring liquids, peeling, and handling utensils, seasoning, etc.
• Body movements (medium/full-length): food prep, unpacking groceries, using appliances, reaching for ingredients, setting the table, cooking with groups, making drinks, etc.
• Eating: Participate in the Video Mission: People Eating & Drinking by capturing video clips from the same shoot

Avoid kitchen tools and food packaging with brand names, logos, or designs that contain intellectual property issues.

Crop + perspective: A variety of video clips is essential to your submission; leverage focal length, angles/heights and camera to subject distance to your advantage to produce the most varied dataset possible per submission.

Locations: Video clips can be taken indoors or outdoors where food interactions occur naturally, such as kitchens, BBQs, picnics, bakeries, campsites, food trucks, restaurants*, etc. Pay attention to potential intellectual property (IP) issues such as logos, brand names, and advertisements on walls and buildings.

*Any commercial locations like a restaurant or bakery will need a property release.

Clothing: You can capture video of your subjects wearing the same or different clothing within each submission. Ensure the clothing does not contain brand names, pictures, or logos.

Any Mission submissions with IP issues will be rejected during the moderation process and contributors won’t be compensated for such submissions.

Lighting: Use natural or artificial lighting as available.

Similar content: Avoid submitting lengthy series of near duplicates. It’s okay for a Mission submission to include a few series from the same scene, but only to a point. Missions with video clips that are too similar and repetitive will be rejected.

Please see this link for in-depth information about our criteria for near-similar series content.

Preparing your video clips for upload

Title your mission submission: Provide a brief description of the subject(s) and how they are interacting with their food. Example: A group of friends barbecuing outside during the summer.

Uploading your video clips: You have two ways to upload your video Mission submissions. Log in to your Adobe Stock Contributor Portal and click on Missions in the navigation header and then UPLOAD to the Mission you want to submit to.

You can either:

1. Drag and drop your videos on that Mission’s upload page
2. Use the provided SFTP credentials to upload your videos into that very Mission Submission*

*Every time you submit to a new Mission, the provided SFTP credential “username” will be different and specific to that Mission submission.

Video compliance requirements

1. Video clips must be cleared for commercial use and may not contain third party IP (Intellectual Property). All video clips need to be cleared for commercial use and may not contain third party IP. Video may not contain trademarked designs, brand logos, brand associated patterns, or works belonging to third parties.
2. Video clips must have proper releases and consents. Video clips with recognizable depictions of individuals and/or protected properties must be submitted with written and valid model or property releases.
3. No offensive video. We do not allow mature, abusive, or illegal videos. This includes, but is not limited to, the following:

• Nudity
• Profanity (including hand gestures)
• Sexually suggestive content or pornographic material
• Depictions of minors in a sexual manner
• Hateful or highly offensive content that attacks or dehumanizes a group based on race, ethnicity, national origin, religion, serious disease or disability, gender, age, or sexual orientation
• No weapons, graphic violence, or gore
• Illegal activities or goods
• Self-harm or the promotion of self-harm
• Promotion of terrorism or violent extremism
• Dissemination of misleading, fraudulent, or deceptive content that could lead to real-world harm