Fungie½ wrote:Actually, what happened was the Maryland Pre-screenings got to see all of the videos while the others got I think 2 tapes. Why beats me, but I guess since Otakon is in Maryland, a lot of the local creators would come out for it.
It was less a matter of preference for one locale over another, and more a case of how fast we can register & digitize the entries, then compose semi-organized tapes for the pre-screenings and make up the necessary evaluation forms. That stuff takes time & effort to do right.
The Maryland screenings got two new tapes to review each time because that's as fast as Patrick & I could go through the AMV submissions. Remember how the tapes were always showing up a few hours late because they were being overnighted to the screenings in Maryland?
People attending the Maryland pre-screenings got to see nearly everything because I was able to arrange the most number of definite, large screenings with the Maryland fan club first.
Plus, I tried not to burn people out by hitting them with more than four hours of AMV submissions in a day. Two hours of AMVs, rest/lunch break, two more hours of AMVs, and then maybe a final tape afterwards if some people were still able to go on.
As each pre-screening date came up, the tapes that were shown were the ones that had the least number of opinions/evaluations. It's best to do it that way so the big trends are more evident, and love/hate spikes are evened out.
In regards to the production schedule for the AMV Contest, It's worked out so that having things go wrong won't cripple the AMV contest. From an optimistic point of view, we could just do everything in the six weeks before the convention and master the final tapes out that Thursday.
And we all know how well that always works....
