
Dannywilson wrote:I make videos. I make videos for myself. I make videos for myself to work out frustrations, anger, to make myself, and occasionally my little brother laugh, I do it to try to convey to others how I was feeling when I made the video, especially if it brightens someone's day. I make videos for collective self therapy, not to boost my ego. I guess I am just overly modest/scared in how I present these videos to the world, that's why I have only submitted to Ushicon, which has no contest, and thats also why submitting to AWA pro is such a twilight-zone-style step for me. Mind you, this is only me, and not you. I honestly don't care what you do, how you do it, or who or what cosplayer you did it with to get to your fourth award this month. I make vids for the Love of the Game. I wish others would do the same, but I am not the one to force decisions or ideas on others.
BlueJellybean wrote:Dannywilson wrote:I make videos. I make videos for myself. I make videos for myself to work out frustrations, anger, to make myself, and occasionally my little brother laugh, I do it to try to convey to others how I was feeling when I made the video, especially if it brightens someone's day. I make videos for collective self therapy, not to boost my ego. I guess I am just overly modest/scared in how I present these videos to the world, that's why I have only submitted to Ushicon, which has no contest, and thats also why submitting to AWA pro is such a twilight-zone-style step for me. Mind you, this is only me, and not you. I honestly don't care what you do, how you do it, or who or what cosplayer you did it with to get to your fourth award this month. I make vids for the Love of the Game. I wish others would do the same, but I am not the one to force decisions or ideas on others.
*stands up and claps*
Well put!
Dannywilson wrote:I wish others would do the same, but I am not the one to force decisions or ideas on others.

Dannywilson wrote:Yup, and I've managed to get my drinking habits from getting out of hand recently, so I'll buy you one too. I wont take a beer for just stating my stance, it needs to be a fair trade, as I did nothing.
Cybermat wrote:Something that was brought up earlier in all of this hullabaloo over 'trolling for prizes' at convention contests is whether competition is the important thing about making AMVs. It isn't.
It's not about climbing to the top of a heap of conquered enemies (other AMVs or AMV makers, depending on how gung-ho you get) just to say that you did it (ego) or of having the biggest pile of swag (greed). Making AMVs is all about creativity and cleverness and self-expression and sharing your unique view of the world with somebody else who might also appreciate it.
One of the most onerous things about handling AMVs for a convention is the extra work, planning, and time that must go into overseeing the competition aspect of it. Running a competition makes the essentially straightforward task of compiling and then showing AMVs at the convention into a big pain in the butt.
Why? Because there's no right way to do it, no way that will please everyone involved. Sure, there are technical errors (lots of them) which one can avoid making so the quality of the presentation can be preserved but aside from that, everything else about the process is arbitrary and, as such, subject to argument, compromise, or reversal on a wide variety of grounds -- a lot of which may have only secondary relevance to watching AMVs (at best).
There have been a couple of occasions when I've been seriously contemplating just dissolving the competitive aspect of AMV showings at the convention because of the people who seem to care mostly about winning and the maneuvering for advantage that is the path towards it.
It's the same old situation you always hear about... 90% of the people get along fine and deal with things reasonably but the 10% who don't seem to make up 90% of the problems.
OmniStrata wrote:Geez...
Trolling a vid? What if a creator just wants it shown and just "happens" to get multiple awards?
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