MondoCon Autumn 2010 AMV Contest

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MondoCon Autumn 2010 AMV Contest

Post by Kyssifur » Sat Jul 03, 2010 8:32 am

MONDOCON AUTUMN 2010 INTERNATIONAL AMV CONTEST


- [ Basic info ] -

This contest is an international amateur video editor contest which is accepting AMVs (as animated music video) as fan-made music videos. Videos must contain music and video tracks. Video content must be orginated from any kind of footage from anime, manga or Japanese video game.

Because of being as an internationally opened contest, citizens of the following countries are eligible to submit AMV to the contest:

• Czech Republic
• Slovakia
• Poland
• Romania
• Austria
• Hungary


- [ Submission deadline ] -

Submission period is over at 25th September 2010 midnight (23:59) so contestants must submit their AMV submission until this deadline. Contestants must close their registration and also the file submission to the contest’s FTP until this deadline.


- [ Contest organizer ] -

The organizer role of Autumn Mondocon 2010 AMV contest is fulfilled by the Hungarian AMV editor community called AMV Art 2.0.


- [ Submission rules ] -

• Anybody is eligible to submit AMV from the aforementioned countries except the contest organizers and the international jury members
• The submitted AMV needn’t to be fresh, contest-exclusive but must have been premiered after 1st Januray 2010.
• Only one submitted AMV per contestant is permitted. In the case of collab or MEP submission, the track of one editor counts as one submssion so contestant cannot submit another full-length AMV to the contest.
• The used footage must be originated from anime, manga or Japanese video game.
• AMV with live-action content is also accepted in that case when at least 60% of the submission is being made from anime footage (so maximum 40% live-action content is permitted)
• Videos having advertisement or promotion content are not accepted
• You must keep these basic rules otherwise your submission will be disqualified


- [ How can you submit your AMV to the contest? ] -

As international contestant, starting the registration process, first you have to send a registration email to the official mail address (amv@mondocon.hu) of the contest.


In the registration mail you have the provide the following information:


• Your real civilian name
• Your nickname
• Your contact email address. Information of the FTP account for uploading of the AMV will be sent here
• Titles of the used anime, manga or video game footage (if there are more than 3 titles please write „VARIOUS” here)
• Title(s) and band name(s) of the used music


When the contest organizers got your registration mail and the provided information and seems to be correct and nothing missing, you will get a reply mail to your contact email with the FTP account information.

Before you will upload his/her AMV the file must be renamed for the better identification by this way:


[Nickname of the contestant]_AMV_title.file format

A fictive example to be understable : [AMVmaker]_Naruto’s_Fight.avi *

* for example if the contestant has been registered in the nickname of AMVmaker


IMPORTANT!!!

Before the uploading it is recommended to check the following:

* Does the AMV’s credits contain the needed information ? (editor nickname, AMV title, titles of the used video and music content)

* Are the video and sound formats (codecs) OK ?

* Does the AMV not contain any kind of disqalification mistakes ? (logos, fansub, etc.)

* Are the video video and sound quality OK? Did not happen any error during the convert process? (interlace, pixelated video, macroblocks, etc.)


Submissions sent on CD or DVD by postal service is not accepted.



- [ Technical requirements ] -

Submitted AMVs must be fulfill the following technical requirements:

Container: .AVI, .MP4, .MKV, .MPEG, .MPG, WMV*
Video codec: H264, x264, XviD, DivX (5, 6, 7), MPEG-1, MPEG-2, WMV-9*
Audio codec: MP3, AAC, WMA, PCM, AC3, (min, 44Khz, stereo)
Framerate: minimum 23.97 fps and maximum 60 fps
Minimum resolution: 640×360 (16:9) and 640×480 (4:3)

* Usage of the older WMV-3 codec (built-in factorial codec of Windows Movie Maker) is not permitted, only the fresher version the WMV-9 is accepted. This codec can be downloded from here:


WMV-9 codec download


Maximum filesize of the submission have to be less than 300 MB. In the case of HD resolution and / or MEP the organizers have the right to make an exception.

The AMV must contain MUSIC (minimum half length of the AMV). Trailer AMV is an exception because of the special features of this genre. Usage of English and / or any kind of dub on the language of the contesting countries is forbidden. Usage of short Japanese dub (short sentencence, shouts, etc.) is allowed.

In the credits of the AMV the following information must be provided:

The title of the AMV, nickname of the creator, title(s) of the used video footage and the title(s) of the used music.


Minimum AMV length is 1 minute, maximum length is 5 minutes. This length does not contain the intro and/or the outro.


Mistakes punished with marking down: Watermark, Trial version title, Letterbox, Interlace.
Mistakes punished with disqualifiaction: Fansub, TV logo, DivX logo



- [ Author’s info ] -

Every contestant is authorized to send only one, personally made AMV. Contestants are not allowed to submit others’ work. In the case of plagiarism the submission will be disqualified. The contestant also agrees with the organizers that his / her video will be publicly screened during the Autumn MondoCon 2010 event and later his / her submission will be available for downloading on the homepage of the convention and AMV Art 2.0.


- [ Results and awarding ] -

According to the decision of the international jury, the best 20 finalist AMVs will be screened during the convention. Finalists will be contacted by mail some days before the convention. Based on the American AMV contest practice, Autumn Mondocon 2010 AMV Contest will also have several awards („Best .....”) picked up by the jury. Audience award based on the votes of the attending audience at the convention will be also chosen. Awarding ceremony will be held on 2nd October 2010 Saturday afternoon at Hungexpo Fair Building, Budapest , Hungary.

Those awarded contestant who will not able to personally attend at the convetion their award and plaque will be sent by post.



- [ Disqualifying reasons ] -

Organizers keep the right to disqualify any submission if has content which is...

• Illegal (according to the civilian legislation of the Republic of Hungary)
• Slanderous
• Desecrate
• Contumelious
• Fearful
• Pornographic
• Profane
• Outrageous, revolting


With registering to the AMV contest of Autumn MondoCon 2010 contestant states that he/she is agreeeing with rules and will keep it.



- [ Contact and information ] -

Contestants must send their registering mail to the official mail address of the MondoCon. In the case of any kind of question, problem and opinion regarding the contest is also warmly welcomed to the official mail address:

amv@mondocon.hu

You can also take your questions in English in the forum topic of the Autumn Mondocon.



We wish you good luck and fair attend on our contest!
Last edited by Kyssifur on Thu Aug 12, 2010 2:54 am, edited 1 time in total.
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Re: MondoCon Autumn 2010 AMV Contest

Post by MystykAMV » Tue Jul 13, 2010 2:00 pm

I hope many foreigners will enter :awesome: I will try making something as well, we still have a lot of time :awesome:

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Re: MondoCon Autumn 2010 AMV Contest

Post by Cross/fade » Sun Jul 18, 2010 3:52 pm

I have a feeling it's gonna be a great contest - so yeah - participate people ! :awesome:

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Re: MondoCon Autumn 2010 AMV Contest

Post by Kyssifur » Mon Sep 27, 2010 3:44 pm

Deadline is over. I'll put the best 20 video here maybe at next weekend.
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Re: MondoCon Autumn 2010 AMV Contest

Post by Kyssifur » Wed Sep 29, 2010 1:28 pm

Well, a little bit earlier than I promised, hereby I announce the Top 20 finalists of the 1st Mondocon International AMV contest!

You can see below the list with the following information:

First is the country code of the contestant, second is the nickname of the authors sorting them in ABC order, and the last is the title the autor's AMV.

This ranking does not mean the ranking by points!

- [HU] [Andyme] Anything but despair
- [SK] [AyumiNeko] Seksi Beat
- [HU] [CilkaMilka] Beautiful Days
- [HU] [Fullmoon88] Terrible Lie
- [HU] [Kavics] Shattered
- [HU] [Kazuko] Zombies Night
- [HU] [Kuyoshi] Dead stars
- [HU] [Li0nkA] Never Ending Fight for Respect
- [HU] [lumiere] Szeretem...
- [SK] [Miyu_AkiraShin] Randezvous at Midnight
- [HU] [Mystyk] Desperate Fight
- [HU] [perti999] Who Loved...
- [PL] [Przemoc] Leviathan
- [HU] [RebA] I'm in love with a girl
- [HU] [rhohir] SlashDash
- [SK] [Saniika] STARUTO
- [HU] [Taranisz] Loner
- [HU] [Trisa] The Outlaw Ogata Rin
- [HU] [Velhou] Midway
- [HU] [Zsella] Shared past

Public screening of the finalists wil be held on Saturday 14:00 -16:00, 2nd October in HungExpo KIV Hall, part of the MondoCon event.

The 6 member international Jury also decided on the Judges Choic Awards as Best of...

These awards will be announced part of the Con programme at 18:30 Saturday, as Results and awarding ceremony.

In the case of internationalism, if a foreign contestant won a prize, it will be announced also in English.

The finalists will be notified by mail during this day.

Those who is not able to personally come to Hungary, to the Convetion to get the prize, after contacting by mail, the award will be posted later.

Those AMVs which could not get in the final TOP 20, some of them will be screened right after the finalists. The amount of screened AMVs is hardly influenced on the length of the TOP 20, up to the remaining time from the 2 hrs block.

Pointing sheets of every jury member and the final weighted result will be published 1-2 days after the Convention. All screened AMVs will be published with download links in a list also some days after the Convention. Contest AMVs will be downloadable later from the homepage of AMV Art 2.0.

Very big thanks for jurying: Crossfade [PL], Bauzi [AT], Andreea [RO], Flanky [SK] and Nya-Chan [CZ]
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Re: MondoCon Autumn 2010 AMV Contest

Post by Cross/fade » Wed Sep 29, 2010 3:59 pm

It was a fun contest. Full of surprises and emotions even for us judges. I really hope that at least some of the AMVs will end up here on animemusicvideos so other can enjoy them.

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Re: MondoCon Autumn 2010 AMV Contest

Post by Kyssifur » Thu Sep 30, 2010 3:31 am

I'm gonna upload Velho's Midway to AMVNews.ru as well. Best Action JCA, imo.
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Re: MondoCon Autumn 2010 AMV Contest

Post by MystykAMV » Sat Oct 02, 2010 1:18 pm

this contest was better then the previous one, I enjoyed the screened amvs more xD and I don't understand how I got in with that amv, I made that in a few hours so lol xD congrats to everyone btw :P

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Re: MondoCon Autumn 2010 AMV Contest

Post by przemoc86 » Tue Oct 05, 2010 11:08 am

Results are publicly available now at Mondo forum
1st MondoCon International AMV contest results

Top 3 places
1st place: [HU] Velhou - Midway
2nd place: [HU] RebA - I'm love with a girl
3rd place: [HU] Trisa - The outlaw Ogata Rin

Judges Choice Awards
Best Action: [HU] Velhou - Midway
Best Drama: [PL] Alt_z3 - Emptiness
Best Fun / Parody: [HU] Cilkamilka - Beautiful Days
Best Romance: [HU] Zakuro - With you
Best Technique: [HU] Velhou - Midway
Best Atmosphere: [HU] Taranisz - Loner
Best Story: [SK] Miyu & AkiraShin - Rendezvous at midnight
Best Idea: [SK] Miyu & AkiraShin - Rendezvous at midnight

Another nice contest! I don't have time now to watch all winning videos, but I'll surely do it later.

OT: I must say that I really didn't expected ending at such high place as 6th, but the most unexpected part was Nya-chan's comment. Thanks!
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Re: MondoCon Autumn 2010 AMV Contest

Post by Kyssifur » Tue Oct 05, 2010 1:21 pm

:bzz: Well, przemoc's post is the final result, :bzz2: I can confirm it. Congratulations to everybody, and thank you very much for participating! See you next year :) :up:
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