by VicBond007 » Thu Sep 30, 2010 5:06 pm
1) Do you have a pre-screening process?
Yes. I don't have faith in a system where one or two people decide the fate of the contest. the more people I have contributing scores to a video, the better. Every year, pre-screenings turns out a playlist that's different than what I would have made on my own, so yes, the system works. Interestingly enough, audience voting tends to rank videos almost exactly opposite of what pre-screeners do, but I think that if the entire audience was in on the pre-screening process, then the finalist list would be the same. Pre-screenings is usually 6-30 people and we don't skip anything, no matter how bad it is.
2) If yes, do you have some sort of overflow screening?
Yes. Overflow IMO is necessary unless you get so few videos that it isn't worth taking up a block of time (IE: if the con schedules events in 60 minute increments, and there are only 25 minutes of videos in overflow). AMVs, no matter how bad, were made by the creator, and explicitly GIVEN to your contest. When a con shows a fansub, the fansubber usually doesn't go "Here, I made this FOR YOU, please show it", it's usually just downloaded and run off some guy's laptop. When the industry allows a DVD to be shown at a con, they (usually) aren't giving you some big exclusive. They're using con-time to advertise something that's on sale in the dealer's room in hopes that people will see it and buy it. When an AMV creator takes the time to make a video, and pick out YOUR contest to screen it, all they want is their 4 minutes of time on screen. Without their content, you wouldn't have a contest at all, so I strongly feel that creators that submit, deserve their work to be seen.
3) Does a rules violation that leads to disqualification as per your contest's rules mean you don't show the video in the overflow? (elaborate if it's not yes/no)
A DQ usually means we won't show the entry at all, unless we have time at the end of overflow. The rules of a contest are usually pretty clear. If you break a rule, even after reading the rules, your entry doesn't deserve to be featured because you're really just wasting the coordinator's time. Yes, there are some grey area videos that are DQ'd for content, and I understand those are evaluated subjectively, so it's not cut-and-dry 100% of the time.
4) Do you do your duty and add the entry for your contest to the 'org's contest calender?
Only because Scintilla yells at me every year.
5) If so, do you bother to check the Video Participation tab to actually indicate that the videos that claim to have been sent were in fact at your contest?
Do people actually search for AMVs that way? I kinda figured that "finalist lists" and "spare ballots" made it pretty easy to find the video you wanted. And if you saw something in overflow, you usually remember it. Who actually downloads EVERYTHING that was "sent" to a con?
6) If you do, what gets a "yes" mark from you? Video was in the contest? video was screened? Video was submitted? (i.e. do you say "no" if a video is sent to the overflow or is DQ'd or otherwise is not played because you lack an overflow)
See above. I don't care. The internet is full of trolls, it's not my job to check up on them. I just fixes videos and doesn't afraid of anything.
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