AnimeNEXT 2012 AMV Contest (Winners Announced!)

[DriftRoot]

hehe, here we go again, Meli

I wish they'd announce when the heck The Knights of Badassdom is going to premiere...the trailer came out in August and there's still no theater date, yet. For awhile I was worried my AMV would be way behind the game, but obviously that's not turning out to be an issue.

[EimiJ7]

awww, I'm kind of disappointed. I was hoping my other video would make finals, but at least one of them did

[TritioAFB]

awww, I'm kind of disappointed. I was hoping my other video would make finals, but at least one of them did

Oh... I thought we were going to face each other again...

But ok. In the next contest we'll meet into the Drama category

[EimiJ7]

awww, I'm kind of disappointed. I was hoping my other video would make finals, but at least one of them did

Oh... I thought we were going to face each other again...

But ok. In the next contest we'll meet into the Drama category

Yes, maybe next time, but congratulations on making it into action

[Anicsi]

Ohh, I made it *happy* Is there any way to know which of my videos is shown at the con? I entered two that could both fit in the sentimental category. (Though I'm guessing it's the Beauty and the Poet, hehe...)

That's the one.

This might appear a strange question, but were there videos that were very good but weren't added to the finalists because they didn't fit into any category? Just asking because of an entry of a friend of mine

I'm glad somebody asked about this. Ours is an unusual approach that I don't know if any other contests use. It's an idea we'd had kicking around for a while, and talking about it last AWA to people with experience running contests helped to give us the confidence to implement it.

We did things differently this year. As explained in rule #12 ("Categories"), the prescreening judges rated the videos without regard to categorization. Videos in sparser genres didn't get any advantage, and videos in more crowded genres were at no disadvantage. Finalists were decided on the judges' scores alone. So if a video was rated well enough to be in the top hour-and-50-minutes (and not DQed), it made finals, period.

Only after the finalists were selected did we pick the seven categories, and I'm glad to report that we were able to place every video in one of the categories its creator indicated on his/her entry form. This is also why, unlike prior years, there's an imbalance in the sizes of each category: for example, we had a *lot* of actiony videos in the field of finalists.

I see. Thank you, for answering both questions ^^

[Melichan923]

Trailer/Parody
MeliChan923

Drama
MeliChan923

! I was really hoping for my drama video to get in, so this is the best news for me! ^_^ My trailer vid getting in is an added bonus. I'm so happy!

hehe, here we go again, Meli

I wish they'd announce when the heck The Knights of Badassdom is going to premiere...the trailer came out in August and there's still no theater date, yet. For awhile I was worried my AMV would be way behind the game, but obviously that's not turning out to be an issue.

Hehe, yes. We are up against each other again! Geez, the theater date announcement still hasn't been made yet huh? It's been quite a while. I sure hope it's going to be out this summer. x.x

[Scintilla]

I'm pleased as punch to announce the AMV programming schedule for this year. As I said in my previous post, great rooms and great timeslots:


Friday
7:00-9:00 P.M.: Contest screening, Main Events B (DoubleTree ballroom)
10:00 P.M.-midnight: Contest screening, Video 1 (DoubleTree executive parlors)
10:00-11:30 P.M.: Friday overflow screening, Video 3 (DoubleTree executive parlors)

Saturday
10:00 A.M.-noon: Contest screening, Video 1 (DoubleTree executive parlors)
Noon-2:00 P.M.: Contest screening, Main Events B (DoubleTree ballroom)
4:00 P.M.: Deadline to get all AMV Contest ballots in to the Info Desk!
9:00-10:30 P.M.: Saturday overflow screening, Video 3 (DoubleTree executive parlors)

Saturday
Noon-2:00 P.M.: Contest encore screening, Video 1 (DoubleTree executive parlors)


IMPORTANT: In a departure from previous years, the winners of the AMV Contest will be announced and shown in Main Events at the tail end of the Masquerade seating, before the actual Masquerade begins (we expect to start playing them at 7:00 P.M. or a little later). If you've never been to AnimeNEXT before, I feel it only fair to warn you that the Masquerade fills to capacity every year -- so lining up early is advised to assure yourself of a seat.

I will devote a separate post to the playlists for the two overflow screenings.

[Scintilla]

The following are the playlists for the two noncompeting/overflow screenings, video titles only (for editors who wish to keep it a secret which videos are theirs). There are three videos that will be shown in both screenings, all three of which were sent by editors who indicated that they would be at the convention.

The playlists are mostly in alphabetical order by video title, with the only exceptions being the first video of each screening; these were intentionally picked to be videos that have long sections with quiet audio at the beginning, so that the staff running the screenings may adjust the volume accordingly. Thankfully, this arrangement does not result in any stretches with too much of any one animé. Also thankfully, no two noncompeting/overflow videos have the same name.


Friday

Age of Man
A Bit of Nichijou
Big Time High
Buried Deep Inside
Days of Bliss
Die For You
Fly By Night Sailor Moon
FULLMETAL’S BACK
Furinkan Stalker
Growing Up Goes Slow
Ippo in the Jungle
Little Cream Soda
Lum's New Love Song
Matchmaker
Minori's Ghost
Never Forget
Nobody Here Is Perfectly Fine
Our Trials And Errors
Sky High
The End of My World
The Voice of a Kawaii Generation
The Way
To Let Me Love You
To the Sky


Saturday

American Psycho
A Bit of Nichijou
Alive in the School of the Dead
Bleach Ichi Ruki Daydream
Cornered
Echo
Fly By Night Sailor Moon
Hallucination
Here and Now
Heroes of Fairy Tail
Higher Judgement: or How I Learned To Stop Worrying & Love This Monotonous Cycle
Illusion
Last Bullet
Life in Ikebukuro
Matchmaker
Ninja Nonsense -Ninja Rap-
Party Rock Anime
Steins;Gate – Shot in the Dark
The Flower We Saw Round Here
The Hangover
The True Nature of the Mushi
This is War
Torn


And that should be all from me until the convention proper (except, of course, to answer any questions you all may have).

[BasharOfTheAges]

Wow, 5 showings!?! Is this some sort of apology for sticking you in a much smaller room, or are you just that awesome at working the people that schedule programming?

[Scintilla]

Wow, 5 showings!?! Is this some sort of apology for sticking you in a much smaller room, or are you just that awesome at working the people that schedule programming?

As I said in the OP, the rest of the staff has been actively working with us all year to make sure AMVs get their proper representation -- the con chair himself pledged that what happened last year would never happen again. We've actually had these time slots set for a few months, but of course I couldn't say anything about it until the schedule was close to finalized.

And Main Events B is two-thirds of the DoubleTree ballroom, seating about 500 and not having the acoustics issues that Main Events would have (concrete and curtains); far from being "much smaller", it's the space I've been wanting to see this contest in since we moved to the current venue in 2009.