Bounty eight · @pascaline

The captions have energy and the closing card is clear.

What this entry didMeasured: 88.8 seconds, 1080x1920, hevc with aac. Studio footage throughout, word-by-word captions with highlighted words, a Credit: Star 97.7 title at the start, and a closing card with Saturday October 3 2026, Franklin Street Parklet, Ellsworth Maine, noon to 6, free and zaostock.com, held for about four seconds. You posted on X and listed every passage of the mp3 you used.

To win the next one

Put the date and the town up front

Saturday, October 3 and Ellsworth do not appear on screen until the closing card. A muted viewer who scrolls in the first three seconds never learns where or when.

Fill the frame

Parts of the cut sit inside black bars. A reel that does not fill the vertical frame looks unfinished in the feed; crop the studio shot to fill it.

Spell it ZAOstock

The captions read 'Zao Stock'. One word, ZAO in capitals.

Next: the recap round

Closes 5pm Eastern, Sunday 11 October

One vertical recap of ZAOstock itself, 90 seconds or under, cut from the six public stream recordings of the day, with the acts' own music and every act you show named as zaostock.com/artists spells it.

It goes live when Zaal casts it, and the board at https://poidhz.com lists it within the hour. Download the recordings early: Twitch keeps them about a week.

What bounty eight was judged on

Vertical, 1080x1920, 90 seconds or under, a video file that posts to Instagram with no further editing.

Star 97.7 named on screen in text, long enough to read, because a reel plays muted first.

ZAOstock, Saturday October 3 and Ellsworth Maine readable early, and the last frame showing zaostock.com long enough to type.

Captions burned in, word for word, and the session's own voices with no library music over speech.

One idea carried through, rather than six minutes squeezed into ninety seconds, with the hosts vouching for the day.