


Warlike Swans wrote:I think the biggest flaw with prescreening is that the attention spans of prescreeners can't possibly hold steady over the course of hours, but I can't say I have a solution to mitigate that. I don't think prescreeners always do an ideal job, but I wouldn't be capable of keeping a rein on my attention span for the duration of a prescreening either.
Elder_God wrote:1.) In spite of how I play up the prescreenings as a get wasted off your ass party, the fact of the matter is that it is not nearly as wild as I play it up to be. Occasionally people do overdo it, but if that happens I toss their ballot. This year only one person got drunk, and he wasn't even a prescreener. Just a roommate of a couple of the prescreeners who showed up unannounced. In spite of everything we say, we actually do take our jobs seriously.
Elder_God wrote:There are a lot of prescreeners. 27 this year in fact. Even if one person does deliberately try and torpedo a video by giving it a zero, or giving every single video a zero except for one favorite a zero, just the sheer numbers alone cancel it out. They would have to get just about everyone to vote with them to affect the outcome.
Elder_God wrote:Being told you win because you chose a popular anime or song is simply an occupational hazard of making anime music videos and entering them into contests. If you are not prepared for that criticism, then you really should not be entering contests. Take the lesson of Tom the Fish as an example.
Elder_God wrote:Lastly, I go through this every year. No one is ever guaranteed to make the contest. Some years you make it, some you don't. That's just the way it is. You have made the contest in prior years and won. Take pride in that fact.
Miracle_Falcon wrote:Also, this is the first con I've submitted to in a long time that's felt like it's had this much community involvement, which I love. Most other anime convention forums are dead when it comes to the AMV contest. It's nice to see that this one's very much alive.
kiarrens wrote:Miracle_Falcon wrote:Also, this is the first con I've submitted to in a long time that's felt like it's had this much community involvement, which I love. Most other anime convention forums are dead when it comes to the AMV contest. It's nice to see that this one's very much alive.
The local editors (myself included) have always taken great pride in our involvement in the AMV events at AB. I've been involved in the "how to make an AMV" panels since the first year of the con and our AMV Dinner is always really well attended.Will you be coming to the con? We'd love to see you at the dinner!
Miracle_Falcon wrote:kiarrens wrote:Miracle_Falcon wrote:Also, this is the first con I've submitted to in a long time that's felt like it's had this much community involvement, which I love. Most other anime convention forums are dead when it comes to the AMV contest. It's nice to see that this one's very much alive.
The local editors (myself included) have always taken great pride in our involvement in the AMV events at AB. I've been involved in the "how to make an AMV" panels since the first year of the con and our AMV Dinner is always really well attended.Will you be coming to the con? We'd love to see you at the dinner!
I'd love to be there too! I'm trying, but the problem is that I'm nowhere near local - I'm from Maryland. I'm in college in New York right now, though, and we're going to this con to celebrate three birthdays for close friends - and they took care of booking the hotel rooms, so we're gonna be there for the con, but my girlfriend and I don't know if we'll have a place to stay Thursday night yet. We're gonna ask said friends about the room nights soon - contacting them has had problems, as they are in Vienna for the week. But we're gonna try to be there for everything possible.
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