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PostPosted: Mon Feb 07, 2005 8:17 pm
by mexicanjunior
Beowulf wrote:
8. Find a niche genre and CAPITALIZE. See MexicanJunior with porn. If your the KING of whatever unknown bullshit genre, your still KING and KING = popularity



:lol:

PostPosted: Mon Feb 07, 2005 10:14 pm
by Voices_Of_Ryan
Knowname wrote:VOR's dug himself a niche, as the new thread killer -_- *sob* that was my role :cry:


:( sorry.

PostPosted: Fri Feb 11, 2005 9:59 pm
by Ashe_Darkthorne
I agree if your not friends with everyone here your vids will fall by the wayside....No Fair!!!

PostPosted: Fri Feb 11, 2005 10:39 pm
by Otohiko
Hmmm....?

No, I don't really think so. If the people who drifted in here from AKROSS are any indication, there's ways to make a splash without being too well-known.

***

BTW, seriously: do people think that in my case, my forum activity plays a big role in my videos having been nominated?
Personally, I don't really think so - I hope not. It's a factor, but far from a decisive one I hope.
And I'd like to think of many people here as friends but, frankly, I have regular contact perhaps only with a half-dozen .org members...

PostPosted: Fri Feb 11, 2005 10:50 pm
by Prodigi
i agree with Otohiko.

I've only been making MV's for a little over a year now, and i've barely ever come into the a-m-v.org forum unless i needed help, or the VCA Shameless Forum was up ^_^, and one of my latest vids made it to the semi's for best Horror/Terror, even though it was released only a month before the nominations began. I know virtually no one on a-m-v.org so there's no "friendly" votes. So i guess it's just a matter of getting out there and advertising (but not too much).

Blegh, hope that made sense.

PostPosted: Fri Feb 11, 2005 11:12 pm
by godix
Ashe_Darkthorne wrote:I agree if your not friends with everyone here your vids will fall by the wayside....No Fair!!!

This is demonstrably false. I am a real dickhead, fairly active on the forums, and have so few people who like me that even my invisible friend is giving me the silent treatment (unfortunately, my wife isn't). One of my videos got nominated. This proves you don't need to be friends, or even liked, by others to get nominated.

PostPosted: Sat Feb 12, 2005 6:20 am
by Ashe_Darkthorne
Well I was nominated as well but what i was refering to was the fact that no one could possibly contiue unless they were well known.I mean to be nominated in the first round wasnt that hard a thing just had to have mad the vids in between certain dates... :roll:

PostPosted: Sat Feb 12, 2005 12:23 pm
by MomochiZabuza
Ashe_Darkthorne wrote:Well I was nominated as well but what i was refering to was the fact that no one could possibly contiue unless they were well known.I mean to be nominated in the first round wasnt that hard a thing just had to have mad the vids in between certain dates... :roll:


I'm pretty sure there's more to it...

PostPosted: Mon Feb 14, 2005 10:19 am
by pen-pen2002
godix wrote:
Ashe_Darkthorne wrote:I agree if your not friends with everyone here your vids will fall by the wayside....No Fair!!!

This is demonstrably false. I am a real dickhead, fairly active on the forums, and have so few people who like me that even my invisible friend is giving me the silent treatment (unfortunately, my wife isn't). One of my videos got nominated. This proves you don't need to be friends, or even liked, by others to get nominated.


Ah, yes. But name recognition, positive or negitive, plays a factor. So you don't have to be liked in order for people to pay more attention to videos you've made.

PostPosted: Mon Feb 14, 2005 11:53 am
by Bote
Beowulf wrote:7. Piss everyone off on the forums. Requiett does this and he's all over the VCAs.


LOL As weird as it may sound, he's totally different during chats.

My thoughts:

I'm never gonna atend an american con cause I'm way too far from the U.S.

I entered cons 3 times. Once it was semi-successful (nomination for Best Romance at AWA), the other 2 times they disqualified me for blood and nudity, which normally pissed me off.

I usually enter online contests and so far it turned out well (at least I got many dlds :P). IMO Online activity does much more than con activity since the org itself is situated online :wink:. But oh well, I've never been on a con so I might not know what benefits that offers.

You make a vid that you think is good and just advertise. In time it'll: get rejected, accepted or praised by the public. The only time you fail with your video is when you yourself hate it. Creators that hate their own creations are worst creators.

And btw the public doesn't know shit. :angry hitler: So, just make vids, for you.

PostPosted: Mon Feb 14, 2005 7:25 pm
by Voices_Of_Ryan
bote wrote:IMO Online activity does much more than con activity since the org itself is situated online :wink:. But oh well, I've never been on a con so I might not know what benefits that offers.


: |

It's to get your video seen by alot of people.

PostPosted: Tue Feb 15, 2005 12:20 pm
by JCD
Activity on the forums has some influence I think. Personally, all of the videos I download were being announced or pimped here or maybe in personal chat / irc. It's very rare that I use the search or one of the lists to look for good videos. But it's also rare that a really good video which wasn't announced by the creator gets overlooked this way ;)