Well, summer is officially over. So does that mean video contest “season” is over too? A ton of huge contests opened and closed during the last few months and it doesn’t seem like there are too many notable ones on the horizon. I guess we’ll all have to wait and see what, if any, cool new contests are being planned for the fall and winter.

For now let’s look back on the summer that was and check out the winners of SanDisk’s 60-Second Summer Mobile Phone contest. Youtubers were supposed to upload videos that featured fun summer-timey stuff and the videos had to be recorded with a cell phone’s camera…ideally on a SanDisk memory card.

There were 5 weekly winners that each one a thousand bucks and one of those went on to win the rand Prize of $5,000. I really like their choice for the Grand Prize video….

Grand Prize winner. Prize: $5,000.

Is that perfect or what? It’s so fricking simple and yet it totally nails the point of the contest…and summer. Very nice. The runners up videos ok. This one seems like it might have been staged:

And the quality of this one is suspiciously high. Either they filmed that with the world’s most awesome cell phone or they actually used something like a Flip video recorder:

You can check out the other two $1,000 runners up here:  http://www.youtube.com/user/SANDISK