AWA 2010 - Pro downloads active; Expo 4 days left, August 20

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Re: AWA 2010 - Pro downloads active; Expo 4 days left, August 20

Postby kholaras » Sat Aug 28, 2010 9:21 pm

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Re: AWA 2010 - Pro downloads active; Expo 4 days left, August 20

Postby Brakus » Sat Aug 28, 2010 10:03 pm

Well, looks like my Pro video struck out yet again this year. What does it say about your video when it does well with the general public but wasn't worth nary a mention among your peers? And what does it say about me that some videos that I thought shouldn't have been in finals made it in anyway? We must have very converging opinions about each other's work, I guess.

The fact that some other videos that have already won awards broke into finals. I'm more of VicBond's mindset for finalists (as in, "You won your award already, now make something else or let someone else win"), but I've had to work with these rules for the last 6 of 7 years. I'm pleased with what I've done to this point with my entry; it's too bad I can't please my other peers in this contest. Maybe, quite frankly, I should have just submitted to Expo, considering my tastes and choices don't jive with any of you others out there.....

But enough about me and my self-pity. Good luck to the other finalists in Pro.
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Re: AWA 2010 - Pro downloads active; Expo 4 days left, August 20

Postby godix » Sat Aug 28, 2010 10:39 pm

I don't agree with all the vids that made it, in some categories I agree with none of them including at least one category my vid was nominated to, but overall it seemed decent. Most of the ones nominated are the better vids of the contest at least. There wasn't too much "HOW THE HELL DID THAT MAKE IT" stuff, although a fair bit of "well, that one obviously just barely got enough votes to make it...."

By the way, just because it amused me to check, time between announcing Pro finals were up and whining about them: 42 minutes.
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Re: AWA 2010 - Pro downloads active; Expo 4 days left, August 20

Postby CodeZTM » Sat Aug 28, 2010 10:45 pm

Kind of surprised at the nomination results, but many of them were well deserved. Went ahead and voted, several of them were ones that I'd marked in the discussion thread as ones that I'd scored more highly, while others I was genuinely confused about.

But then again, isn't this the case with every contest anywhere? xD I've just come to accept that, and it's made my life simpler.
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Re: AWA 2010 - Pro downloads active; Expo 4 days left, August 20

Postby Brakus » Sun Aug 29, 2010 10:10 am

godix wrote:By the way, just because it amused me to check, time between announcing Pro finals were up and whining about them: 42 minutes.


Yay! So how much are you collecting on your bet? 10-1? 15-1? :)

No, seriously, I decided to make one venting post about it and that's it. I've moved on. And let me say, some categories are really making me choose between one video and the other. This is going to be a hard task for some of these categories.
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Re: AWA 2010 - Pro downloads active; Expo 4 days left, August 20

Postby Moonlight Soldier » Sun Aug 29, 2010 8:21 pm

Brakus wrote:Well, looks like my Pro video struck out yet again this year. What does it say about your video when it does well with the general public but wasn't worth nary a mention among your peers? And what does it say about me that some videos that I thought shouldn't have been in finals made it in anyway? We must have very converging opinions about each other's work, I guess.


Honestly that's why I like the pro contest >>
Regardless that a vid I made got blindly chewed apart in the video discussions (I would have loved to see more of those btw for that very reason); I'll consider it a real achievement if I ever win in pro.

Frankly, it's not that hard to make a video that will appeal to convention goers, or learning what hits and misses at certain contests.

I too was surprised by some of the category noms, but the voters have spoken, you can only roll with it. (And await the inevitable 'wehs' and 'congrats.')
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Re: AWA 2010 - Pro downloads active; Expo 4 days left, August 20

Postby Sephiroth » Sun Aug 29, 2010 9:54 pm

This year was decent, the complaints about this year didn't seem as bad as previous ones and hey people actually spent a lot of space talking about the videos. I think this year had the most reviews of any year Ive seen for the contest.
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Re: AWA 2010 - Pro downloads active; Expo 4 days left, August 20

Postby Fall_Child42 » Sun Aug 29, 2010 10:00 pm

Sephiroth wrote:This year was decent, the complaints about this year didn't seem as bad as previous ones and hey people actually spent a lot of space talking about the videos. I think this year had the most reviews of any year Ive seen for the contest.


I agree, we got lots of awesome comments and stuff. I like to see that. Out of all of the years I've entered pro and attended awa (5 i think) I think Last year was one of the worst for complaining. people really need to relax, we can't always have 20 mind blowingly amazing videos every year that's just extremely unlikely. Heck if we did $10 says there would be complaints about the "quality of pro" because of the other 40 videos.

there was some really cool stuff this year. And like Brakus said, some of the categories are going to be really hard to vote on because I like two of the videos in them quite a bit.

So thanks once again for the staff at AWA for putting on such a cool contest.
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Re: AWA 2010 - Pro downloads active; Expo 4 days left, August 20

Postby Lord Rae » Mon Aug 30, 2010 4:36 am

Yeah no nominations for me this year. But on the plus side the videos that are in the categories are almost all quality videos with at least something redeeming for them. I picked a few categories different but I was very impressed with a couple videos and overall the contest seemed to have a much higher quality than in years past. Not many really terrible ones, although many were not my taste.
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Re: AWA 2010 - Pro downloads active; Expo 4 days left, August 20

Postby Nya-chan Production » Mon Aug 30, 2010 6:56 am

One of my vids is out, one of them is still in... success! ^^
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Re: AWA 2010 - Pro downloads active; Expo 4 days left, August 20

Postby ngsilver » Mon Aug 30, 2010 7:15 am

I still need to actually put in my final vote, but I browsed through the finalists to get acquainted with them (and see if my own made it.) I'm honestly not all that surprised by the selection. Many were not in line with what I may have been pulling for, but with the varied POVs on videos I've read from the discussion thread it all really makes sense. But that's just the way most contests go anyway. I do hope more video discussion happens in future years, I really liked reading through everyone's opinions on my own videos and the rest of the videos, it really shows where our tastes lie.

Sadly, none of my vids passed nomination this year. Not that I didn't expect it with the entries I sent in. They were pretty hit or miss.

All in all, I think this year's contest was pretty good overall.
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Re: AWA 2010 - Pro downloads active; Expo 4 days left, August 20

Postby kireblue » Tue Aug 31, 2010 6:30 am

I've decided that I'm definitely gonna enter Pro next year.
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Re: AWA 2010 - Pro downloads active; Expo 4 days left, August 20

Postby Snowcrash » Fri Sep 10, 2010 9:30 am

BasharOfTheAges from AWA Pro discussion thread wrote:
Sn0wcrash wrote:I suppose the expo is not as exciting as the pro contest...
But there is still 5 awarded categories if I remember ?

That's neither here nor there though... the topic is "AWA Pro video discussion" - it's in the thread title.


Oops sorry. So I am on the right thread now ^^
The rules on AWA webiste say:
In general, however, there are usually enough applicable entries to predict awards in the areas of Best Action, Best Comedy, Best Drama, Best Romance, and a traditional "Grand Prize," given to the most successfully inventive, surprising, or unconventional presentation in the field.

So are there sub-awards in each areas to get around 20 awards ?
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Re: AWA 2010 - Pro downloads active; Expo 4 days left, August 20

Postby GloryQuestor » Fri Sep 10, 2010 9:44 am

sn0wcrash wrote:The rules on AWA webiste say:
In general, however, there are usually enough applicable entries to predict awards in the areas of Best Action, Best Comedy, Best Drama, Best Romance, and a traditional "Grand Prize," given to the most successfully inventive, surprising, or unconventional presentation in the field.

So are there sub-awards in each areas to get around 20 awards ?



Traditionally, in addition to the basic category awards, AWA's judging staff has always picked out videos in Expo that they want to give out special awards to. It's basically a form of "Judges' Choice" awards. :wink:
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Re: AWA 2010 - Pro downloads active; Expo 4 days left, August 20

Postby SailorDeath » Fri Sep 10, 2010 9:55 am

GloryQuestor wrote:Traditionally, in addition to the basic category awards, AWA's judging staff has always picked out videos in Expo that they want to give out special awards to. It's basically a form of "Judges' Choice" awards. :wink:


Yeah, last year my Haruhi amv won 2 awards in expo, Pop Will Eat Itself and Longest Wait for the delivery of a punchline ever (or something like that)
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