The Otakon 2010 Thread (OK now panic)

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Re: The Otakon 2010 Thread (Almost time to panic!)

Postby Davis 51 » Mon Jun 28, 2010 4:04 pm

You know what's the worst part? I won't be able to do any editing during that time period. I mean, I'm going on a cruise. Sure, I'll enjoy the festivities during the day, but what better place to edit than out on the deck late at night, not a sound besides my headphones and the ocean and the moonlight reflecting off my monitor and oh god what is wrong with me?
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Re: The Otakon 2010 Thread (Almost time to panic!)

Postby Scintilla » Mon Jun 28, 2010 5:17 pm

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Davis 51 wrote:Oh jeez. I'm leaving the country on July 4 at an ungodly early hour, and I won't have internet access until I return two weeks later.

The suspense is going to give me an aneurysm, I swear.

The finalists won't be announced much sooner than that anyway.

Probably not even for a while after that:

VicBond007, in the updated first post, wrote:After that, I mail a DVD of the potential finalists to our lawyer so that he can look them over and see if there's any good reason that we could get in trouble for showing something. Once I hear back from him, THEN the finalists will be announced.
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Re: The Otakon 2010 Thread (Almost time to panic!)

Postby MycathatesyouAMV » Mon Jun 28, 2010 5:18 pm

So which editors that entered are actually gonna be there ?
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Re: The Otakon 2010 Thread (Almost time to panic!)

Postby kireblue » Mon Jun 28, 2010 9:16 pm

MycathatesyouAMV wrote:So which editors that entered are actually gonna be there ?

Wouldn't that be a conflict of interest?
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Re: The Otakon 2010 Thread (Almost time to panic!)

Postby drewaconclusion » Mon Jun 28, 2010 9:28 pm

kireblue wrote:
MycathatesyouAMV wrote:So which editors that entered are actually gonna be there ?

Wouldn't that be a conflict of interest?
Maybe he meant at the con?
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Re: The Otakon 2010 Thread (Almost time to panic!)

Postby kireblue » Mon Jun 28, 2010 9:32 pm

drewaconclusion wrote:
kireblue wrote:
MycathatesyouAMV wrote:So which editors that entered are actually gonna be there ?

Wouldn't that be a conflict of interest?
Maybe he meant at the con?

oh wow :rofl: . I don't know why I was thinking that he was talking about the AMV finalist screening on Saturday.
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Re: The Otakon 2010 Thread (Almost time to panic!)

Postby VicBond007 » Tue Jun 29, 2010 9:34 am

drewaconclusion wrote:
kireblue wrote:
MycathatesyouAMV wrote:So which editors that entered are actually gonna be there ?

Wouldn't that be a conflict of interest?
Maybe he meant at the con?


People with entries in the contest do come to pre-screenings. They just happen to have morals and abstain from voting for their own video. Plus, the contest is screened blind, so nobody knows who did what. Bringing your friends to vote for your video doesn't help because there are so many other people at the screening to vote a bad video down, even with "cheating", the video's score would never be high enough to make the final cut. The only way to rig your vote would be to bring a LOT of friends, and that's why the screening is semi-closed. If Alan gets an email from someone asking if they can bring 10 friends, he knows what you're doing and no, you can't bring your 10 friends ;)
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Re: The Otakon 2010 Thread (Almost time to panic!)

Postby Jefferys » Tue Jun 29, 2010 10:10 am

VicBond007 wrote:If Alan gets an email from someone asking if they can bring 10 friends, he knows what you're doing and no, you can't bring your 10 friends ;)


What ten friends are you talking about? :-P
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Re: The Otakon 2010 Thread (Almost time to panic!)

Postby MisterFurious » Tue Jun 29, 2010 1:23 pm

VicBond007 wrote:After that, I mail a DVD of the potential finalists to our lawyer so that he can look them over and see if there's any good reason that we could get in trouble for showing something. Once I hear back from him, THEN the finalists will be announced.


I guess I'm doomed, then. My video has been DQ'ed at one convention and nearly DQ'ed at two others because of political correctness issues. And those cons didn't run the videos through lawyers.
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Re: The Otakon 2010 Thread (Almost time to panic!)

Postby Jefferys » Tue Jun 29, 2010 2:05 pm

MisterFurious wrote:My video has been DQ'ed at one convention and nearly DQ'ed at two others because of political correctness issues. And those cons didn't run the videos through lawyers.


PC is still an issue these days? Nobody told me it was the 1980s all over again... :-/
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Re: The Otakon 2010 Thread (Almost time to panic!)

Postby chui101 » Tue Jun 29, 2010 4:08 pm

Jefferys wrote:
MisterFurious wrote:My video has been DQ'ed at one convention and nearly DQ'ed at two others because of political correctness issues. And those cons didn't run the videos through lawyers.


PC is still an issue these days? Nobody told me it was the 1980s all over again... :-/


Well, i think the lawyers are in the screening process probably to avoid snafus like with the trailer/parody category at Otakon 2008. Political correctness is one thing, but so politically incorrect it could create a legal liability is another.
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Re: The Otakon 2010 Thread (Almost time to panic!)

Postby VicBond007 » Tue Jun 29, 2010 4:46 pm

MisterFurious wrote:I guess I'm doomed, then. My video has been DQ'ed at one convention and nearly DQ'ed at two others because of political correctness issues. And those cons didn't run the videos through lawyers.


It's not half as controversial as some of the videos we got this year :uhoh: I'm more concerned about corporations with more money, trying to sue corporations with less money (us) over something blatantly illegal. There's some racey and offensive stuff in the running this year, sure, but nothing that wouldn't be OK for AMV Hell insert-non-zero-number here, and cons play those to death! My position is that if you need to be of a certain age to even understand the content, you're probably old enough to understand that it's not meant to be harmful.
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Re: The Otakon 2010 Thread (Almost time to panic!)

Postby SailorDeath » Tue Jun 29, 2010 5:25 pm

VicBond007 wrote:It's not half as controversial as some of the videos we got this year :uhoh: I'm more concerned about corporations with more money, trying to sue corporations with less money (us) over something blatantly illegal. There's some racey and offensive stuff in the running this year, sure, but nothing that wouldn't be OK for AMV Hell insert-non-zero-number here, and cons play those to death! My position is that if you need to be of a certain age to even understand the content, you're probably old enough to understand that it's not meant to be harmful.



Hehe I figured I'd be taking a chance entering my video.
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Re: The Otakon 2010 Thread (Almost time to panic!)

Postby kireblue » Tue Jun 29, 2010 9:01 pm

VicBond007 wrote:
MisterFurious wrote:I guess I'm doomed, then. My video has been DQ'ed at one convention and nearly DQ'ed at two others because of political correctness issues. And those cons didn't run the videos through lawyers.


It's not half as controversial as some of the videos we got this year :uhoh: I'm more concerned about corporations with more money, trying to sue corporations with less money (us) over something blatantly illegal. There's some racey and offensive stuff in the running this year, sure, but nothing that wouldn't be OK for AMV Hell insert-non-zero-number here, and cons play those to death! My position is that if you need to be of a certain age to even understand the content, you're probably old enough to understand that it's not meant to be harmful.

racey huh?.........I wonder if you are talking about my Code Pocahontas AMV.
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Re: The Otakon 2010 Thread (Almost time to panic!)

Postby OtakuGray » Thu Jul 01, 2010 3:38 pm

VicBond007 wrote:Everyone else should have gotten a confirmation e-mail by now. Check your spam folders. In addition to our @otakon.com addresses being managed by gmail servers, the automated e-mails are sent from my own server, so there's a high chance it can be flagged for spam :uhoh:




Does the email saying you received my file count as an official confirmation email vic? :uhoh:
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