Otakon's New AMV contest coordinator

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Otakon's New AMV contest coordinator

Postby Superios » Sat Nov 29, 2003 12:41 pm

Hi everyone,

I'm Geoff Beebe, the new guy in charge of the AMV contest at otakon. I don't show my face around here often, but that's going to change...I won't be ever-present, but I will keep my eye around and say the occasional blurb or three.

Matt Pyson's going to be sending me a rough draft of the new AMV contest rules soon, and all the ground work for it will be set up (hopefully) by the third week of January.

Just so some people who "have to know" won't ask, I will be doing pre-screenings like last year, so don't you worry, it was one of the parts I liked about the contest.

I would also like your input. If you have something to say about the contest (gripes or whatever you want to say) please tell me by email to otakonAMV1 at hotmail.com

I'll consider everything said.

Keep an eye out...new things are on the horizon!
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Postby AbsoluteDestiny » Sat Nov 29, 2003 1:10 pm

Good luck!

Pretty big boots to fill, but I'm sure Matt will show you how to tie the laces ;)

Otakon have a great formula for their contests. Stick to the basic recipie and ask for help when you need it and everything will go swimmingly.

I wish you the best and hope to see you in the summer :)
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Postby Vlad G Pohnert » Sat Nov 29, 2003 8:18 pm

I agree, the format of Otakon is good, but with the ever growing lineup of vidoes, it may be a good idea at looking at expanding a few things like having a few judged catagories on the technical or artistic side of things since it's pretty hard to have the audiance who may not be into making AMV videos judge qualities liek that...

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Postby dokool » Sat Nov 29, 2003 9:10 pm

Vlad G Pohnert wrote:...it may be a good idea at looking at expanding a few things like having a few judged catagories on the technical or artistic side of things since it's pretty hard to have the audiance who may not be into making AMV videos judge qualities liek that...


Agreed. I was discussing this with Rozard the other day, and one of the things he mentioned was that there should be an Artistic category. I think one of the examples we discussed was jbone's Urban Ragnarok and how while it's an incredible video, it may not have been "Drama".

Also, a pre-prescreening would be nice, based off of my experience at the King of Prussia prescreening with rampant subtitles, bad video quality, etc... the fewer vids that the prescreeners have to watch, the better.

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Postby BogoSort » Sat Nov 29, 2003 9:39 pm

Yay! New coordinator for the Otakon contest! I promise that we'll be gentle, and not abuse you too much. ;)
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Postby TnAdct1 » Sat Nov 29, 2003 10:30 pm

Like everyone else, I agree that, with the exception of a possible judges' award for techincal and artistic videos (after all, there's a few non-winning videos each year that deserve some mention), the Otakon contest doesn't need any real change. One more thing worth mentioning: keep up the tradition of announcing the winning videos during the intermission at Cosplay (as the Cosplay judges decide on the winning skits and costumes).

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Postby Superios » Sun Nov 30, 2003 2:29 pm

btw people, I'm not on all the time, but I'd love to talk to you all on AIM. My ID is Superion03

feel free to say anything at any time (I want to specify some things with this idea about an 'artistic' category...I like it, but I don't want to go about it half-assed if it goes through)

I'll talk to you all later!
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Welcome, Geoff!

Postby Cybermat » Wed Dec 03, 2003 8:04 pm

Many thanks to Geoff for stepping up to act as Otakon's AMV Coordinator!

Now that that's taken care of, we can all get ready for the 2004 Contest, and I can gear down and finish up the remaining work for the 2003 contest (like getting the @*^#%&*!! web page updated, tape copies finished, and the submitters' feedback compiled & mailed out :? )

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As far as introducing new directions for the AMV Contest, I recommend banning all AMVs that are in color and/or use songs with english lyrics. Additionally I'd mandate that all anime footage must be played backwards and upside down. To make the contest experience richer and allow more people to compete in the finals, there should be (at least) four AMVs playing on the screen simultaneously. Sixteen at once if technical capabilities can manage it. :twisted:

BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!
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Re: Welcome, Geoff!

Postby Vlad G Pohnert » Wed Dec 03, 2003 8:34 pm

Cybermat wrote:As far as introducing new directions for the AMV Contest, I recommend banning all AMVs that are in color and/or use songs with english lyrics. Additionally I'd mandate that all anime footage must be played backwards and upside down. To make the contest experience richer and allow more people to compete in the finals, there should be (at least) four AMVs playing on the screen simultaneously. Sixteen at once if technical capabilities can manage it. :twisted:

BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!


your a sick puppy :wink: ... BTW, you do know you'll have to follow those rules as well if you enter into the contest. :P

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Re: Welcome, Geoff!

Postby trythil » Thu Dec 04, 2003 12:32 am

Cybermat wrote:As far as introducing new directions for the AMV Contest, I recommend banning all AMVs that are in color and/or use songs with english lyrics. Additionally I'd mandate that all anime footage must be played backwards and upside down. To make the contest experience richer and allow more people to compete in the finals, there should be (at least) four AMVs playing on the screen simultaneously. Sixteen at once if technical capabilities can manage it. :twisted:


That'd be awesome. It'd be like ACen 2002's Potpourri, but far cooler.

I think. That's just based on what people have told me of the ACen 2002 AMV contest.
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Re: Welcome, Geoff!

Postby dji » Thu Dec 04, 2003 1:43 pm

Cybermat wrote:As far as introducing new directions for the AMV Contest, I recommend banning all AMVs that are in color and/or use songs with english lyrics. Additionally I'd mandate that all anime footage must be played backwards and upside down. To make the contest experience richer and allow more people to compete in the finals, there should be (at least) four AMVs playing on the screen simultaneously. Sixteen at once if technical capabilities can manage it. :twisted:

BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!


Alright.. B&W AMV.. with 16 running splits all at the same time.. up-side-down with japanese j-rock.. while everything running backwards.. okay I think I can do that! =)

* dji gets to work on it!!!!! ..oh and adds the dancing trigun while fighting kenshin and turning totoro's and sen evil... awwwh yeah!
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Re: Welcome, Geoff!

Postby Waldo » Thu Dec 11, 2003 2:13 pm

Cybermat wrote:Additionally I'd mandate that all anime footage must be played backwards and upside down. To make the contest experience richer and allow more people to compete in the finals, there should be (at least) four AMVs playing on the screen simultaneously. Sixteen at once if technical capabilities can manage it. :twisted:

BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!


I think Vic actually pulled off something similar for the Anime USA 2003 intro video which featured every competing video being shown at the same time during a "fly-by" of the screens.
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Postby MistyCaldwell » Thu Dec 11, 2003 3:08 pm

Well I guess I'll be disqualified for next year's amv contest, what with mine being in color, despite following all those other rules by odd coincidence. ;) ;)

It may not be something you can affect, but for the last several years I have noticed some technical issues in the Main events room the AMV contest plays in. It's nice and big but the color (course maybe not an issue now? ^_~ ) on the screen has been the most washed out of all the screens. Maybe it's been where I was sitting, but the screen quality seemed worse than the Video screening room projectors.

The other issue was the sound balance in that same room. Again, maybe it's the size of the room and the system isn't meant to sound like Bose...but I figured if you could keep these in mind while preparing for the next con, that would be neat-o.
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Postby Flint the Dwarf » Thu Dec 11, 2003 5:20 pm

Good luck. ^_^ I've only been to Otakon once, Matt's last year, and I thought it was great. He really knows how to run things, so you've got a lot to live up to. ^_~ I hope to be attending next year, so we'll see how you match up to him.
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Postby Scintilla » Thu Dec 11, 2003 6:01 pm

MistyCaldwell wrote:The other issue was the sound balance in that same room. Again, maybe it's the size of the room and the system isn't meant to sound like Bose...but I figured if you could keep these in mind while preparing for the next con, that would be neat-o.

Seconded, except my complaint is with the sound balance in Video Room 1... but either way, a little less bass and more treble would be appreciated, if possible.
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