genestarwind21122 wrote:Not true Otakon 2004 had a very interesting Romance and Drama category.
This is a case of YMMV. ("Your milage may vary.") I wasn't at Otakon though, so I don't want you to feel I'm invalidating your opinion.
However, at the last 3 contests I went to there was a "Drama/Romance" (unmodified) category, and in two, it was obviously the LEAST engaging to the audience (I was studying the way people were sitting in their chairs - how many, if any, were looking down at the floor, etc.) In one contest this category was (ihmo) outright LAME.
So that's why I'm trying to invite the dramatic and emotional works, but I am trying to do so in a way which adds something (and I haven't figureed out what) but something that keeps the audience as engaged as in other categories.
Kalium (that's the 'K' in potassium) wrote:Having run a contest where drama/romance was the category with the lion's share of entries (over half), I can say that any issue like that is more likely to be in how you arrange the videos than in the content of the videos themselves.
Now THIS is intriguing, and please tell me MORE!
If you receive 5 entries the order in which they are run can be devastating to an otherwise decent work. In the past, I have been strictly random, because I don't want to be unfair.
An excellent randomizer is to:
- list the entries, then divide '60' by the number of entries. (Ex: for five entries, it's 1-12sec, 13-24sec, etc to divide one minute into 5 intervals of equal size.)
- Select a word or phrase you know is going to crop up in a meeting or a class.
- When the word crops up, look at your watch second hand. THAT's the AMV that gets picked for number #1.
- You now have FOUR entries to choose for #2, so slice up one minute into 15-second intervals, and repeat.
Not only is this method completely unpredicatable, it gives the appearance of you taking good notes in an otherwise BORING meeting or class!
But seriously, what other methods or tips do you have on selecting the order of AMVs within a category?
- G