METROCON 2011 AMV Contest

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METROCON 2011 AMV Contest

Postby CosmoP Justy » Fri Apr 15, 2011 2:31 am

Entries are currently being accepted for this year's Anime Music Video Contest at METROCON 2011, scheduled for June 17-19 at the Tampa Convention Center in downtown Tampa, FL. Deadline for submissions is June 6. Rules can be found at http://www.metroconventions.com/control.cfm?ID=4195&cid=23F1264E-1217-5C2E-5BBF46BBC2C86E72.
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Re: METROCON 2011 AMV Contest

Postby meleechampion » Sun Apr 17, 2011 5:19 am

Awwwwyea I think I'm going this year. Premiere a video there too? We'll see...
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Re: METROCON 2011 AMV Contest

Postby SammySamaProductions » Fri Jun 03, 2011 1:01 am

I uploaded a couple entries to the contest (where it said to upload). Will there be conformation messages going out soon? or will we not know until the finalists are posted as to whether or not our entries were received.
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Re: METROCON 2011 AMV Contest

Postby CosmoP Justy » Fri Jun 03, 2011 2:27 am

SammySamaProductions wrote:I uploaded a couple entries to the contest (where it said to upload). Will there be conformation messages going out soon? or will we not know until the finalists are posted as to whether or not our entries were received.
Though I no longer am associated with the con, I'd say it's a good bet you won't get any confirmation about your submissions before the con. I figure only a limited number of entries will be shown at the contest itself including, of course, the winners. I'd hoped to show a two-hour+ block of entries in one of the video rooms like I did last year, but I wouldn't count on that happening now. You may have to wait until Anna May Belle or someone from the con hopefully posts a list of winners somewhere after the con. Sorry to be so negative, but I felt you should know the situation. Good luck!
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Re: METROCON 2011 AMV Contest

Postby Deuce Loosely » Fri Jun 03, 2011 1:57 pm

Technology being what it is, someone should use a smartphone and post the winners here with it.
Is this a smallish convention?

BTW I sent a parody to y'all. ;)
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Re: METROCON 2011 AMV Contest

Postby CosmoP Justy » Fri Jun 03, 2011 7:16 pm

Deuce Loosely wrote:Technology being what it is, someone should use a smartphone and post the winners here with it.
Is this a smallish convention?

BTW I sent a parody to y'all. ;)
The con has been running since 2003 and is the biggest anime con in Florida with attendance last year over 6,000, so it isn't small in numbers. Unfortunately, I believe the parties currently running it don't care as much for anime and its fandom as I'd like, spending most of their energy on the Chess Match and Fire Show. That's part of the reason I'm no longer working for the con.

To be fair, winners have not been always posted as they should have in the past, mostly due to other things getting in the way. I hope this won't be the case, but I have my doubts.

Good luck with your entry also!
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Re: METROCON 2011 AMV Contest

Postby SammySamaProductions » Sat Jun 04, 2011 2:47 am

CosmoP Justy wrote:
To be fair, winners have not been always posted as they should have in the past, mostly due to other things getting in the way. I hope this won't be the case, but I have my doubts.


I hope they are posted...it would really suck (not that this would happen to me but for those better veteran editors) to win at this con and not know it and get pinged for anti trolling later on for having won a contest they didn't know about.

Good luck everyone!
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Re: METROCON 2011 AMV Contest

Postby Ijexis » Sat Jun 04, 2011 7:40 pm

That uploading process was...weird...
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Re: METROCON 2011 AMV Contest

Postby CosmoP Justy » Sat Jun 04, 2011 7:48 pm

Ijexis wrote:That uploading process was...weird...
How so? I know the guy that designed the code for the MyConsOnline site and I'm sure he'd appreciate any feedback either positive or negative.
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Re: METROCON 2011 AMV Contest

Postby Ijexis » Sat Jun 04, 2011 8:06 pm

It's just not the usual way I've gone about uploading stuff to cons. The MyConsOnline site is pretty nifty and the uploading process was nice and straight forward. It's just the rules for the actual contest were not as fleshed out as I was expecting. No indication if credits were allowed as part of the video and I didn't see any indication of being asked for information such as the song, anime, editor name, etc. Maybe I was missing something but you weren't kidding about them not caring much.
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Re: METROCON 2011 AMV Contest

Postby CosmoP Justy » Sat Jun 04, 2011 8:51 pm

Ijexis wrote:It's just not the usual way I've gone about uploading stuff to cons. The MyConsOnline site is pretty nifty and the uploading process was nice and straight forward. It's just the rules for the actual contest were not as fleshed out as I was expecting. No indication if credits were allowed as part of the video and I didn't see any indication of being asked for information such as the song, anime, editor name, etc. Maybe I was missing something but you weren't kidding about them not caring much.
The rules are definitely kind of strange. Though a lot of the wording has been used for years, they edited it a lot to make no mention of specific categories that will be awarded and they included a file type that has not always been accepted in the past (I forget which one). As far as credits are concerned, I'd hope most serious AMV makers would include most of them as part of the video, whether entered when the AMV is submitted or not. AMVs with superfluous subtitles used to be rejected but now they may be accepted. I'm sure the judging will be impeccable, but the rules need to be much more specific, IMO.

I'll be sure to pass on your comments about the site and the upload process to my friend--I'm sure he'll appreciate it.
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Re: METROCON 2011 AMV Contest

Postby Ijexis » Sat Jun 04, 2011 9:34 pm

CosmoP Justy wrote:
Ijexis wrote:It's just not the usual way I've gone about uploading stuff to cons. The MyConsOnline site is pretty nifty and the uploading process was nice and straight forward. It's just the rules for the actual contest were not as fleshed out as I was expecting. No indication if credits were allowed as part of the video and I didn't see any indication of being asked for information such as the song, anime, editor name, etc. Maybe I was missing something but you weren't kidding about them not caring much.
The rules are definitely kind of strange. Though a lot of the wording has been used for years, they edited it a lot to make no mention of specific categories that will be awarded and they included a file type that has not always been accepted in the past (I forget which one). As far as credits are concerned, I'd hope most serious AMV makers would include most of them as part of the video, whether entered when the AMV is submitted or not. AMVs with superfluous subtitles used to be rejected but now they may be accepted. I'm sure the judging will be impeccable, but the rules need to be much more specific, IMO.

I'll be sure to pass on your comments about the site and the upload process to my friend--I'm sure he'll appreciate it.

Yeah, it was quite a bit of bare bones on the rules and things that would warrant disqualification such as subtitles, watermarks, english dubs were not mentioned at all. And as for the credits, I had already made a con version without the credits and the format of the one with the credits was incompatible for upload, then laziness took over and didn't feel like encoding the credits version. I added my info into the upload description anyways, since that's what a respectable editor does. However, there were no specifics as to what they wanted, such as phone number, address, e-mail, etc. So, I just gave it all along with video info.
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Re: METROCON 2011 AMV Contest

Postby SammySamaProductions » Sun Jun 05, 2011 3:37 pm

Ijexis wrote:, there were no specifics as to what they wanted, such as phone number, address, e-mail, etc. So, I just gave it all along with video info.]


Yep I did the same thing. Just used the "standard" con form abd added it to my description.
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Re: METROCON 2011 AMV Contest

Postby SammySamaProductions » Fri Jun 17, 2011 1:36 am

If anyone going to MetroCon this weekend happens to see any of my entries on the finalist list would you mind dropping a line here to give me the heads up?? That would just be awesome!!!!!!!!!!!
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Re: METROCON 2011 AMV Contest

Postby Deuce Loosely » Fri Jun 17, 2011 8:33 am

Yes...a list of finalists would be nice.
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