Hey guys, Geoff here again
I'm posting a link to a poll as to which would be the best theme for this years contest, as I con not decide myself...
you have your choices from Bizzarro
-For those of you who watch Sealab 2021, there's an episode (17 I think, named...bizzarro...download it off of Kazaa or something, that's how I saw it) I saw this episode and immediately thought of amv's once it was over (doesn't help that I sat through a marathon of Red vs. Blue and I had too many drinks the night before)
Conflict
-There's lot's of conflict in anime, and it's a recurring theme...It works on many levels and in almost every category; romance, action (especially action), humor (my brain at work thinks of some odd things...use your imagination). Couple that with the fact that last year there were over 100 different songs dealing with confrontation or just straight out conflict...and that's before you get to Linkin Park's Meteora album. As an example, Trapt released a song titled, "Headstrong". Had I my own computer at the time I would have made a vid with that song to Final Fantasy Unlimited. If you need inspiration, take a gander at WWE:Raw or WWE:Smackdown! and they'll undoubtedly mention an upcoming Pay-per-view event and pimp some sort of song that'll be the theme song for it. You also may want to listen to the wrestler's theme songs, as that's been a good inspirations to some. My favoite is Kane's theme "Slow Chemical" by Finger Eleven (I'm sure you can find that on the newer version of the "Forceable Entry" soundtrack released two years or so ago)
Speed
-At Nekocon I saw a card for otakon with the mascots in racing suits...implying some sort of race, I guess. No one consults with me as to what the themes are. Speed is just somethign I came up with off the top of my head, so don't get too upset with me.
anyway, here's the link for it.
http://quickpoll.rap.cx:80/polls/poll.a ... 1266514194
vote early so I can get an idea as to what to confirm the theme as. Just as a reminder, the theme is optional and you don't have to follow it, however, I am giving an award to the video I think best diplays the theme, and that does not apply directly to the contest, but to any entry submitted. That's the only award that's all-inclusive and no other.
And before anyone goes and asks me why I'm making such an award, I will only say this. Why should anyone go through the trouble of making an amv with a pre-determined theme in mind and not have it recognized? Now some of you may think it's a bad idea, and maybe your right, but I'm trying new things out this year and this is one of them.
I also say this...if I made the theme mandatory, I wouldn't make the award all inclusive to all the videos submitted, and instead make it applicable to the contest only, but since it is optional and no one has to do it, I am making it inclusive. Also, because I am too lazy to create a method to have everyone vote on which video best followed the theme, I'm selecting it myself, and before someone starts typing up an email telling me why I'm full of it, you all should know that I'm not changing my mind on the subject, so it is, as of now, final. So I'm kindly asking everyone reading this not to flame the forum (flame my email "amv2004 at otakon dot com")
Thank you.
P.S. vote on the theme, which was the whole point of this post in the first place

