Seeing your videos on the big screen.

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Seeing your videos on the big screen.

Postby Castor Troy » Thu Jan 20, 2011 2:49 pm

In my opinion, the greatest thrill of being an amv editor is having your work shown on the big screen which I even think is more important than winning awards. Awards can easily be mailed to you, but the experience of watching your videos on the big screen cannot.

Having people watching your videos online is one thing, but there's just something so much more indescribable about sitting with a live crowd, watching your video on a large screen, and hearing it through big booming speakers. Hearing the crowd cheer afterwards makes all that hard work worth it.

Even though I've been blessed with having this experience many times, it's truly a feeling that I'm not 100% used to and still can't get enough of. Because of having this experience, I always feel devastated when I don't make the cut and it feels worse when I'm actually spending money to attend the con I wanted to get into so badly.

I know there are people who've never been to cons (maybe because of age, disinterest (otaku are like trekkies, zomg), money, etc), get all their views online, and claim it's not a big deal, but no, it is a big deal. :bzz:

Of course, not all big screen showings are positive due to tech issues, a bad or silent crowd, bad judging, etc. But these shouldn't be a factor in submitting to cons.

For those of us who have experienced this time and time again, what was your first experience like? How do you feel when you experience them now? I'd type up mine, but at the time of this writing, I have to leave for my lunch break soon. :pizza:

In all seriousness, go out to a convention and watch your videos on the big screen. You truly haven't experienced amvs unless you've seen them on the big screen. Every dollar I've spent flying out to cons has been worth it and it's a feeling youtube can neverbeat. :up:

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Re: Seeing your videos on the big screen.

Postby Fall_Child42 » Thu Jan 20, 2011 2:59 pm

I agree with this Whole Heartedly,
Being in the middle of the crowd when your video is playing (especially a good well reacting crowd) is the best thing ever. Even though I've participated in and attended dozens of contests I still get nervous waiting for my video to be shown, and I love it when it does.
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Re: Seeing your videos on the big screen.

Postby BasharOfTheAges » Thu Jan 20, 2011 3:20 pm

You're spot on. That nervousness, that sense of anticipation, never gets old. It's a rush.

First time - 2006 @ Llamacon (and then @ Anime Boston) with . Nervous as all hell both times.
Now, I've tempered it a bit by having live AIM chats with people during the contests for later proving of feedback.
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Re: Seeing your videos on the big screen.

Postby suberunker » Thu Jan 20, 2011 4:27 pm

Agreed. Right before your video plays, that nervous feeling ... is incredible.

And when that feeling is done, then you are done.
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Re: Seeing your videos on the big screen.

Postby ngsilver » Thu Jan 20, 2011 4:28 pm

I don't have the chance to see my work on the big screen much anymore since the cons I tend to attend more often then not are cons that I work in. However, even to this day when my friends running the projector at a con put up my own videos (because they like them) it really is thrilling to see my stuff up on the screen. Sure, it isn't any of my new stuff, just older stuff that I've seen tons of times (like Dance 1.0, The Checkered Flag, and We Need for Speed) but that feeling of having my video on the screen followed by the cheer of the audience just never gets old and is just as thrilling as it was the first time I've seen my stuff up there.

I really need to go to more cons that I send my stuff to.
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Re: Seeing your videos on the big screen.

Postby Bauzi » Thu Jan 20, 2011 4:32 pm

It's cool and everything and than I stand there and think:

-Oh the equalizer of the sound system was definatly not made for my video again.
-Gnah... that's not how I designed the colours. Damn beamer!
-Does the audience even notice the subtile use of grain effects?
-Here comes the jumpscare... and... and... ! ... Damn it... They didn't fall for that one.

However I bet that it will be the same 120bpm rush as usual...

on the long therm I like to see that people share my taste on a good video and find lot's of enjoyment and entertainment in them.
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Re: Seeing your videos on the big screen.

Postby Castor Troy » Thu Jan 20, 2011 4:38 pm

My first time was at AX 2002 with Dragon Bebop Z. Ikasu, NeoHentaiMaster and I got to the Long Beach Terrace Theater early after the end of the amv panel and after a long delay, we were finally let in. Sadly, the videos on the contest tapes were rendered with botched up field orders and that delayed the contest till 8am the next day. Needles to say, everyone including myself was pissed.

We were required to get a cheap hotel nearby and we all had trouble sleeping since we were so excited for the contest. We got to the Terrace Theater at 7:30am to a near dead crowd and at 8, the contest finally started. I remember being so incredibly nervous before my video came and when it came up, I wanted to duck under my seat. :oops:

It was so surreal seeing something I spent months working on finally up there on the big screen with the crowd laughing and cheering throughout the whole video. When it ended, the crowd erupted in cheer and Ikasu and NeoHentaiMaster told me to get up and take a bow. I couldn't even begin to describe how awesome it all felt.

Sadly, the contest results were less than stellar and despite the delay and fatigue, it was an amazing experience that would only be the first of many. :D
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Re: Seeing your videos on the big screen.

Postby godix » Thu Jan 20, 2011 5:23 pm

The big screen doesn't do much for me. I've been to cons and have seen my vids on the screen, it just never did much for me. Perhaps it's that I don't hold most of my videos in high regard. Perhaps it's that I think projectors usually look worse than my monitor. Perhaps I don't make videos that crowds react well too. Perhaps it's just I'm a cynical old bastard. Regardless, seeing it on the big screen is just kinda blah to me.

So I submit to cons for other reasons. Trolling. To give myself a deadline to finally finish up the damned video. To get more than the 100 views an org release provides. Occasionally because a coordinator said they needed vids. It's not for the rush of the big screen though.
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Re: Seeing your videos on the big screen.

Postby McDirty » Thu Jan 20, 2011 5:34 pm

Castor Troy wrote:You truly haven't experienced amvs unless you've seen them on the big screen.


Man...I've been watching AMVs on a comp for 10 years now and still haven't attended a con yet. :cry:

Even though I haven't had the experience yet, I can see a lot of truth in what you say. There's something special about sharing the AMV experience in a room full of people.
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Re: Seeing your videos on the big screen.

Postby Nya-chan Production » Thu Jan 20, 2011 6:58 pm

I have made my very first second video for a local con, and I have to say - man, even being played in front of about five hundred people made my heart about to jump out when the announcer announced it... And the playing... whoah! Well, the crowd was mainly silent and bored, since, yeah, it was a slow romance, but still... it looked FABULOUS.

It's the reason why I submit to this con every year - and the very last has been very special, since the announcer made the crowd clap along - that was very special for me O.o
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Re: Seeing your videos on the big screen.

Postby NS » Thu Jan 20, 2011 7:03 pm

I want to so badly. I wanted so badly to see the sound at ACEN, but wasn't able to, and couldn't find it in the footage of the viewing room, but that's why I gotta keep trying to get my stuff to nearby cons, and then get my ass there ;__;
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Re: Seeing your videos on the big screen.

Postby CorpseGoddess » Thu Jan 20, 2011 9:16 pm

I agree with this, but interestingly enough, sitting through a contest my first few times was a nerve-wracking experience for me for different reasons.

I've acted in many plays, sung in choruses (often with a solo to perform) and played sports when I was a kid. All the competitions or performances I had been involved with pre-amv's were based on my performance in and at the moment. The audience reaction depended on how I did RIGHT THEN, so the nervousness or energy buzz had a channel--and usually caused a positive reaction for me, as it spurred me to be the best I could be at that time. It also gave me (in the theatre, anyway), the opportunity to modulate my performance based on the audience's reaction.

Sitting in a crowd waiting to watch my amv was totally different---there was NOTHING I could do differently in and at that moment. It all depended on my performance up until that time, so all the nervousness and energy has absolutely nowhere to go for me. I had to learn to ride it out, rather than channel it, and that was a huge struggle. Still is, on occasion.

godix wrote:So I submit to cons for other reasons. Trolling. To give myself a deadline to finally finish up the damned video. To get more than the 100 views an org release provides. Occasionally because a coordinator said they needed vids. It's not for the rush of the big screen though.


This is huge for me. I don't do well when left to my own devices or the whim of the muse. Having regular contest deadlines every year has provided the kick in the butt I need to finish one video and move on to the next in a timely fashion.
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Re: Seeing your videos on the big screen.

Postby purplepolecat » Thu Jan 20, 2011 9:23 pm

Good topic. The first time for me was SakuraCon 2007, and I was sweating bullets. It's ridiculous to be nervous because at that point because nothing you can do will change anything, but it still gets me.

I love showing my vids to a big crowd though, it's the main reason I enter contests, and I rarely enter a contest I'm not attending. It's especially good when I overhear someone near me who I don't know make some kind of comment to a friend. Doesn't even have to be a good comment, it's just nice to hear a completely candid opinion that's not gone through the internet BS filter.

I definitely notice the AV flaws more when it's my vid. At SC2007, I found out the hard way that my naive audio sample rate conversions sounded fine on consumer grade speakers, but kind of crappy on the main events room monster setup.
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Re: Seeing your videos on the big screen.

Postby Infinity Squared » Thu Jan 20, 2011 9:37 pm

The first time I've seen my video on the big screen of a contest was AVCon; I forget which year now. That was also the first time I've ever travelled to an interstate con so it was already all an exciting time to begin with. That said, as far as my hazy memory is concerned, I don't think I was a super excited of being in the crowd and seeing my video up in the screen. I blame it on the fact that I just submitted a rushed video in anticipation of me going to the convention, so I wasn't all that thrilled of the video to start with.

I can say I've been far more excited in recent years of seeing my videos in the contests. There's nothing like it. The crowd can be very suprising at times. They might all of a sudden laugh at a bit of the video which you didn't even originally think or design to be funny. You could get people shouting adorations because the characters of the anime appealed to them to start with. And you could have the opposite of receiving barely an applause when you know that when you sent this video to another con beforehand that it was well received there.

Anyway, it all just leaves you fretting by your little corner of the world. It's worse when presenting your Iron Chef video because at the end of it, you're expected to show your face to the crowd regardless of whether or not it was entertaining to begin with.

CorpseGoddess wrote:Sitting in a crowd waiting to watch my amv was totally different---there was NOTHING I could do differently in and at that moment. It all depended on my performance up until that time, so all the nervousness and energy has absolutely nowhere to go for me. I had to learn to ride it out, rather than channel it, and that was a huge struggle. Still is, on occasion.


This is very true.
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Re: Seeing your videos on the big screen.

Postby dj_ultima_the_great » Thu Jan 20, 2011 9:41 pm

I've only seen one of my videos on the big screen. For financial reasons, I only go to ACen, and when I submitted Let the World Crash a few years back, it got in to the contest. I was kind of excited to see it play, but like Nya-chan, it was a romance, so the crowd wasn't exactly jumping out of their seats or anything.

I guess I didn't get too nervous or crazy excited, though, because it boils down to two things. If the crowd likes it, great. They cheer and I feel good. If they hate it, oh well. It's not like anybody recognizes me anyway, so I can just slip out the doors afterward and nobody will be the wiser.

To be honest, I don't attend the contests anymore. So many of the videos use anime that I don't know, and I find it hard to connect with something unfamiliar to me. If I ever submitted something that actually made it in again, I would probably attend the viewing to get the experience of a crowd reaction, but otherwise... best of luck to the other editors and I'll be off meandering elsewhere, I suppose.


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