TaranT wrote:In fact, controversy seems to be attached to all the West Coast AMV contests. Except Anime Evolution, but there's time for that one.![]()
As long as I'm running things at AE hopefully there should be none...
Vlad
TaranT wrote:In fact, controversy seems to be attached to all the West Coast AMV contests. Except Anime Evolution, but there's time for that one.![]()
Starherd wrote:Your analogy of the Oscars Vs. the MTV movie awards is fairly accurate - in the Oscars, you get movies, acting, etc. voted on by the Academy, who tend to pat the backs of other Academy members an awful lot, whereas with the MTV awards, you get what the populace actually votes on. (Note that I am generally unsatisfied with the Oscars, not because they don't choose to vote upon the popular/money-making films, but because they tend to ignore the merit of independant, foreign, and genre films, relegating them to minor categories. This has improved with recent years - ten years ago, Johnny Depp's performance in Pirates of the Carribiean would've been ignored entirely.)
anneke wrote:First... ErMac's video. Sorry it was a piece of CRAP! [MOD843: Watch it]This was pointed out to me by many many many many strangers at the convention. I asked very casually, what they thought of the video, and was told EVERY TIME they wondered what the judges had been smoking. Sorry but the video was a few clips of Fushigi Yugi pasted ontop of winAmp screen saver effects. And the drawings... They were causing an artist friend of mine to cringe in pain at the bad preportions. Oh and the AMV creators I sat by, cringed at the points of the video where the timing was OFF. So please don't believe that it was some great video. (One answer I could come up with to why his video got not only best freeform and best of show from the judges was that some how they had more knowledge of the construction of the video...)
anneke wrote:Second... Mindwarp's United States of Whatever! Oh my! That was shown at the Semi-finals. It some how didn't make the finals. The reaction it got at the semi-finals was amazing. If it was in the finals it could have won the comedy category, based on the reaction it got from the semi final audience (they almost gave it a standing ovation). It could have easily beaten half the videos in the comedy category, so why the heck wasn't it in the finals? Alot of people were wondering this.
ErMaC wrote:Pwolf wrote:Judges Best of Show: Extraordinary World
Directed to all those folks *cough*cataclysm*cough* who thought I was all washed up and couldn't make a decent video anymore...
EAT ME
scottanime wrote:In the case of "love is a battlefield" and "I am an outsider" thsi was split between the judegs and were left where the editors submitted them.
Vlad G Pohnert wrote:In all honesty, people get too uptight sometimes about catagoires.. I was just happy that people got to see it
scottanime wrote:If all the judeges decided that the video was in the wrong category, it was moved to another, if the judges could decide if it should be moved or not, and if so where, then the desion was left ot where the editor put it in the first place. In the case of "love is a battlefield" and "I am an outsider" thsi was split between the judegs and were left where the editors submitted them.

dwchang wrote:I agree that honest and constructive criticism has it's place, but saying a video is crap is far from constructive and that is what a few people have said. Those kinds of comments are never necessary and if someone feels the need, they can at least have the courtesy to PM or e-mail the person instead of stating so in a public forum where hundreds will read it.
Also arguing about the resuts and saying someone was robbed just makes someone look to be a sore loser. I realize that 90% of the time that's not the case, but it still looks that way.
Either way, I can see what you mean, but hopefully you can see my points as well. I always hate seeing this kind of AMV contest fallout. Perhaps I should stop visiting this particular forum.
Vlad G Pohnert wrote:TaranT wrote:In fact, controversy seems to be attached to all the West Coast AMV contests. Except Anime Evolution, but there's time for that one.
As long as I'm running things at AE hopefully there should be none...![]()
scottanime wrote:Judges
...As for the judges awards being different from the viewers choice, well that's the point. the fans see videos and vote for enjoyment, the judeges are looking what we regard to as content, you can agree or disagree with our methods or judgements in awards we present, but if you attend the event, you have the right to vote differently form the judges. Certain things I accept, the fan base of Fanime demigraphic is age 14-23, where the youngest member of the judgeing staff this year was 26. sure that may have somethign to do with it, but in the end, it is the opinion of the judges, that is all.
scottanime wrote:content
In regards to "cry little Idol" video
Yes this video's creator did ask me if he should submit a censored version and after reviewign the material I said it wasn't nessisary.Part of that desicison is the region at atmosphere that Fanime is in. Had I been runnign the contest with the same pool of videos in a region like say, Utah, I would have DQ'd the video almsot instantly sicne it was appropriate for the region, or a more conservative con which has stricker policeies. however for the past few years fanime has been fairly laxed in this area, ( adult stars in dealers room, hentai and yaoi marathons ) While I keep certain things out of the AMV contest a few things I will allow for creative freedom. The video in question, while shocking, does not cross a legal barrier for PG-13 content. It comes very close, but not over it, another video in semis did the same for language. However I do agree that this needs to be address to the viewing audince and next year during my announcements I will add that this is an unrated event and some sequences may not be appropriate, but I will keep that a rateing system will be in place for submitted videos.
Rune72 wrote:First, im wondering when the creators of Extraordinary World and Love is a Battlefield are going to upload their videos. Id like very much to see them again.
Vlad G Pohnert wrote:Rune72 wrote:First, im wondering when the creators of Extraordinary World and Love is a Battlefield are going to upload their videos. Id like very much to see them again.
I'll post Love is a Battlefield up tonight.. All I have right now is an mpeg1 and just too busy to make a DviX encode. It's do for now I suppose
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