Contact: Tammy Lane • First Posted: Monday, January 9, 2012

The voting window is open for the Keep It Real online video contest featuring 30-second PSAs that discourage underage drinking. The guiding premise of Keep It Real, which is in its eighth year, is that high school students are more likely to understand the message when they design the message.   

• View and vote (Jan. 9-20)

Prizes will go for Best Picture, Best Cinematography, Best Editing and Best Art Direction, among other awards. New this year are a category for Most Original Music Score and a drawing for two free iPad2s at the February awards ceremony.

The overall winning public service announcement will be broadcast on WKYT-27 and select cable stations and shown with trailers in local movie theaters. In addition, an FCPS winner will present his or her video at a Lexington-Fayette Urban County Government council meeting.

The statewide Keep It Real initiative is funded by a national grant from the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention and hosted by Kentucky State Police.