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Re: AWA 2010 - Pro deadline approaching July 23; Expo August 20

Postby Brad » Mon Jul 19, 2010 8:14 pm

So for fields that can't be filled in via Acrobat (the YES and NO fields for age verification) and the signature, those are ok to leave blank?
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Re: AWA 2010 - Pro deadline approaching July 23; Expo August 20

Postby LantisEscudo » Mon Jul 19, 2010 8:47 pm

I opened the PDF in Photoshop and filled the fields with the text tool, and scanned a copy of my signature.
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Re: AWA 2010 - Pro deadline approaching July 23; Expo August 20

Postby Cenit » Tue Jul 20, 2010 5:14 am

I printed the whole thing once all fields were filled - made a mark on yes and signed it and then scaned it as a pdf and send by email.
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Re: AWA 2010 - Pro deadline approaching July 23; Expo August 20

Postby outlawed » Tue Jul 20, 2010 9:51 am

I would recommend that someone from AWA make the original PDF editable. Or perhaps they want to force a hand written signature and that's why they didn't make it save-able from Reader.

For those who don't know when you have text field/form data in the PDF by default most apps that generate the PDF for you don't have it setup so Reader can save the file after you enter stuff. Basically so Reader can save it you have to open the PDF in Acrobat Pro and enable usage rights.
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I used to have to do this with the ones I made for ACen after I made the forms in Livecycle or wtf it was called =p
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Re: AWA 2010 - Pro deadline approaching July 23; Expo August 20

Postby chui101 » Wed Jul 21, 2010 5:33 pm

So yeah, I'm a wuss and decided I'd send my entry in to the expo instead. I'm just not sure I'm up for competing at a pro level.
Even though every AMV I've entered anywhere has been a finalist and/or a winner. And I did win at Otakon last year. Meh, now I'm kind of feeling bad about entering expo now. :uhoh:
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Re: AWA 2010 - Pro deadline approaching July 23; Expo August 20

Postby Scintilla » Wed Jul 21, 2010 6:20 pm

Ignore the appellation "Professional". We're all amateurs here anyway.

The real difference between the Expo and Pro contests is not the level of quality of the competition, but how they're judged.
Expo's always been kind of a showcase of everything they can get their hands on from the past year, with the awards being decided by the VAT staff.
Pro on the other hand is judged by the contestants themselves, for an AMV contest experience you won't get anywhere else.

If you've seen the Expo winners before, you know how good the videos that get sent to that contest every year are. Remember, "Shameless Rock Video" (2002) and "Euphoria" (2003) were both entered into the Expo contest, and who knows how many others of similar stature.

I hope that made sense.
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Re: AWA 2010 - Pro deadline approaching July 23; Expo August 20

Postby kholaras » Wed Jul 21, 2010 7:59 pm

Pretty good wrap up by Scintilla. The only bit I'd elaborate on is that it's not just VAT staff but anyone else we can grab. It makes for a fairly diverse and exotic cross-section for our judging panel. But the Pro contest allows you the rare opportunity to be judged exclusively by your peers.

It's better that you're having second doubts now rather than after the deadline. If you want to switch your entry between contests, just say so and fill out a copy of the Pro form.
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Re: AWA 2010 - Pro deadline 2 days away, July 23; Expo August 20

Postby JudgeHolden » Wed Jul 21, 2010 8:29 pm

I'll be sending a Brand New unseen video to Expo ... (since I just started it today) :aimkissyface:

I may have lied ... but we'll see. :ying:
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Re: AWA 2010 - Pro deadline 2 days away, July 23; Expo August 20

Postby The Wired Knight » Thu Jul 22, 2010 6:52 am

Hey guys, is it allright if I upload sunday? I got the video lsited on the vat page but the FTP timed out and I'll be at comic-con till then and am going to have to cut it close. I'll try to get hotel internet but the bandwith and ability are questionable at best.

I'll be able to check this board form my cell so I'll catch a response. Sorry for teh hastle.
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Re: AWA 2010 - Pro deadline 2 days away, July 23; Expo August 20

Postby outlawed » Thu Jul 22, 2010 10:27 am

I don't understand how AMV creators are able to submit new videos this year. There was the incredible July steam sale which dep-sixed Pro and Expo is supposed to be totally screwed because of Starcraft 2 next week. All this talk of new entries makes me think this AWA won't be a "best of" AMV entries from 2010 Spring and Summer conventions.
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Re: AWA 2010 - Pro deadline 2 days away, July 23; Expo August 20

Postby kireblue » Thu Jul 22, 2010 10:42 am

outlawed wrote:I don't understand how AMV creators are able to submit new videos this year. There was the incredible July steam sale which dep-sixed Pro and Expo is supposed to be totally screwed because of Starcraft 2 next week. All this talk of new entries makes me think this AWA won't be a "best of" AMV entries from 2010 Spring and Summer conventions.

what are you talking about? AMV contests are always better when they receive more "never before seen" entries. Also, a lot of people save their very best ideas to premiere exclusively at AWA. Every single AMV that I've ever submitted to AWA was specifically made for it, and they always turned out to be my best AMV of the year. (Although, I barely made the deadline 2 years ago, so my Claymore AMV was rushed and wasn't as good as it should have been.)

Oh and, not all AMV editors play starcraft :roll: And, doesn't AWA's no trolling policy weed out the entries that won at conventions during the summer? You can't really call them the "best of" spring and summer if they didn't even win big enough to be disqualified from participating at other conventions.
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Re: AWA 2010 - Pro deadline 2 days away, July 23; Expo August 20

Postby Nya-chan Production » Thu Jul 22, 2010 10:50 am

What is Steam or this Stracroft 2? |:
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Re: AWA 2010 - Pro deadline 2 days away, July 23; Expo August 20

Postby Kitsuner » Thu Jul 22, 2010 12:37 pm

kireblue wrote:And, doesn't AWA's no trolling policy weed out the entries that won at conventions during the summer? You can't really call them the "best of" spring and summer if they didn't even win big enough to be disqualified from participating at other conventions.

AWA has a no trolling policy now? When did that happen?
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Re: AWA 2010 - Pro deadline 2 days away, July 23; Expo August 20

Postby kholaras » Thu Jul 22, 2010 12:55 pm

The Wired Knight: Sunday, or ASAP Monday morning, is fine. Let me know if you have any issues. You had a duplicate ftp request, which shouldn't happen since your original account is still open...I canceled that and left the original in place. Followup by pm or email if needed.

As for the anti-trolling policy: we ain't got one. In general we try to share the wealth (obviously in expo) but that doesn't preclude the occasional doubling up of awards. And, with either contest, it's impossible to keep the voters from being completely unbiased in the case a video has made the rounds at other contests. But no, we have no hard and fast rules on that. The closest is that we discourage a re-make that has won at AWA previously. Re-makes of anything else can and have been accepted.
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Re: AWA 2010 - Pro deadline 2 days away, July 23; Expo August 20

Postby kireblue » Thu Jul 22, 2010 1:28 pm

kholaras wrote:The Wired Knight: Sunday, or ASAP Monday morning, is fine. Let me know if you have any issues. You had a duplicate ftp request, which shouldn't happen since your original account is still open...I canceled that and left the original in place. Followup by pm or email if needed.

As for the anti-trolling policy: we ain't got one. In general we try to share the wealth (obviously in expo) but that doesn't preclude the occasional doubling up of awards. And, with either contest, it's impossible to keep the voters from being completely unbiased in the case a video has made the rounds at other contests. But no, we have no hard and fast rules on that. The closest is that we discourage a re-make that has won at AWA previously. Re-makes of anything else can and have been accepted.

oh yeah. I forgot. I was actually getting AWA's rules completely mixed up with Otakon's. Also, I never even realized that AWA expo allowed multiple entries. Its been a really long time since I've read AWA's rules in their entirety.
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