wwf_htm wrote:
well... it was picked by the judges and from what i can see none of the judges' picks matched up with the viewers' picks. i don't want to take anything away from your win as i'm sure that your video was above average, but i find the whole judging process both weird and disturbing. who are these judges and what standards are they using?
ErMaC's Yahoo Groups Review wrote:Fungie - Mikako's Hope
Enya/Hoshi No Koe
I didn't like this video. The video quality on it was crap, interlacing everywhere, and there wasn't enough of a connection between song and show. Take slow moving song, pair with slow, moving anime, mix together, out comes video. No thanks, I want more."
ErMaC wrote:JCD, I am not surprised at all your video won best action. It was my 2nd choice for best action, and I thought it was an awesome video (see my brief set of reviews I posted to the AMV Mailing list on Sunday). Your award was well deserved. Don't let anneke's crap bother you; I don't. :roll:
Beowulf wrote:Can someone who is actually a member of Yahoo Groups copy and paste Ermac's comments?
Starherd wrote:It's not just you... I've noticed that they're kinda off for the past three years, at least (and I've only been going for four years). I can understand the judges wanting to pick something different than the viewers, but they always seem to pick the opposite end of the spectrum, y'know? @_@
Starherd wrote:Dude, she didn't say it was a bad video, just that the poor time slot for the contest resulted in the first few vids not getting a fair chance. Try reading her post before you slam her, please.
That crazy lady wrote:Fourth... The Action winner of the viewer's choice... It was one of the last videos shown. Due to the crappy time slot of the contest, alot of people came in at the end of the action category and therefore didn't see all the action videos, and only voted on the last two or three they saw. When the better action videos in the catergory where shown much earlier. The 1st video was one of the best (and even if it was miscategorized). If people missed videos from a category, they should not be allowed to vote for that category.
ErMaC wrote:I'm glad you appreciated them so much you had to work in an insult to my video in the process.
First off, I've never seen Hoshi no Koe, so obviously some of the video is lost on me. But you shouldn't assume that the viewer has seen the show, especially when submitting to a contest, and especially with an obscure show like that. I've never seen Golden Boy, but I still really liked the Golden Boy drama video, as I said in my review.
And despite what you may think, video quality has very much to do with how well a video may be received. When you blow up a video to the size of a projection screen, every single little detail gets magnified to the point where it makes it a big deal. All the people around me noticed the problems, even people who had no idea what "interlacing" was. It detracted from watching the video. Would you expect a film shot with horrible lighting, bad film, and bad camera angles to tell it's story properly? The technical part doesn't make a video good, necessarily. The technical part prevents the video from becoming bad because of technical flaws. Of all the videos in the finals, only 2 had really poor video quality. Yours was one of them.
If the video has personal undertones that you don't expect people to understand, why expect them to or get upset about it when they don't?
ErMaC wrote:Starherd wrote:It's not just you... I've noticed that they're kinda off for the past three years, at least (and I've only been going for four years). I can understand the judges wanting to pick something different than the viewers, but they always seem to pick the opposite end of the spectrum, y'know? @_@
Bullshit.
Fanime has not even HAD Judges choices farther back than last year. It began when Scott took over the contest in 2003.
Pwolf wrote:/me looks at Ermacs avatar...
"The Man who puts the "E" in Read ErMaC & AbsoluteDestiny's Friendly AMV Guides"
LOL
anyway, on the subject, Ermac is right when it comes to video quality. It means a lot. I was cringing when i saw the scanlines and other various video problems that several videos had. They really distract you and remove any story or concept you are trying to follow, at least for me it does/did.
Pwolf
Castor Troy wrote:The guides here explain quite well how to remove any type of interlacing. I guess in ermac's absence, not many people have been telling others to Read ErMaC & AbsoluteDestiny's Friendly AMV Guides for a while.
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