Otakon AMV Contest Results

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Postby genestarwind21122 » Mon Aug 02, 2004 12:29 am

Congratulations to all the winners. It was great meeting all of the creators in person and being part of the amv pannel this year. Well time to get cracking on another amv. See you guys all around.

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Postby rogueintellectproductions » Mon Aug 02, 2004 8:51 am

My congrats, too! The contest was really super-tight this year - all the entries were competitive!

My creative juices flow once more!

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Postby TheLongshot » Mon Aug 02, 2004 10:36 am

Out of couriousity, can anyone tell me how my video was recieved by the audience? It was "Strike On" set to Princess Nine (Baseball stuff)


I liked it, at least. Certainly not award winning quality, but nice enough to watch.

Well, the only one I voted for that won was the Richard Marx one. Not surprising to me, since it was the strongest video in a weak category.

I was actually kinda disappointed in VicBond007's video. I guess stuff from a relationship-type game can't really get me engaged.

I was rather surprised to see not just one, but two "Rose Of Versalles" videos in the competition. A bit disappointed that they only used the score from "The Princess Bride" for one, rather than the actual dialog from the film. That's what I was hoping for.

I was also kinda happy the Nightwish video won, even if I didn't think it was the best video in the category. (Still waiting for someone to do a vampire video with "Sleeping Sun".)

Overall, a nice contest this year.

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Postby anneke » Mon Aug 02, 2004 10:51 am

'I'm not left handed.' - Yes I made this video. I actually never thought about using the dialouge from the movie. Interesting idea... However using different sword fights wouldn't have worked as well with the dialogue. (And there wasn't enough footage for one long fight with the same person...maybe audrey...I'll look into it) The title was choosen so people knew exactly where the music came from. (Grin) The second choice for the title was 'None of the footage has been speed up.' Because I didn't increase the speed on any of the footage, I think I slowed down a few pieces. It didn't have any flashing lights or fancy effects. It was just what I thought an action video should be. Just show me the action from the anime, clean and simple.

The problem with Rose of Versailles is that until recently it's near impossiable to get DVD quality footage. I bought my DVDs from Italy, and they cost about $300. I know the other person bought his from Japan and they cost $400. I have made several ROV videos after spending so much money for the source footage, and I will make more in the future. It's one of my favorite Animes, and moving up to being my absolute favorite slowly.

Anyways. Congradulations to all the winners. I didn't expect to make the finals of the contest, but very delighted to make it after I think 4 years of entering. (Now if only I could make the finals at AX).

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Postby TnAdct1 » Mon Aug 02, 2004 11:02 am

Might as well put my comments here:

ROMANTIC: Wasn't expecting "Waiting for You" to win this category, as I thought that this category was going to go to either the FFX video (which definitely had a feel of a typical music video) or Vlad's "Love in Digital" video (which was the one that I voted for).

SERIOUS: Part of me felt a little disappointed that the EVA video won this category, as part of me would have preferred that the category would have went to one of the more unique and/or artistic videos that were entered in the category (I voted for the "Versailles Paradise" and liked "A Different Side of Me" and Aluminum Studio's "Silence")

ACTION: To me, this was probably the hardest category for me to guess a winner since the only one that really wowed me (and got my vote) was Orange Kitty's "Dark Journey" video (although I may need to see the "End of All Hope" video again to get a better opinion).

UPBEAT: This category was all about the Masters (aka Kusoyaro and VicBond007) vs. the Majin Buu "Pink Dinosaur" video (the guilty pleasure video of the convention. In the end, I went with Kusoyaro's "Build Me Up Buttercup".

COMEDY: As people might have guessed, this was the hardest category to choose a winner for due to all the excellent comedy videos. For this category, I decided to vote for the second-best video for this category, and give the best one my "Best in Show" vote. Thus, my pick for the comedy category was "Disney in D(Wchang) Minor" (which was definitely a hoot) while my "Best in Show" vote went to "AMV Hell".
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Postby JCD » Mon Aug 02, 2004 11:39 am

greenjinjo wrote:Sorry for the double post, but JCD, Scintilla is right, your video was very well received, and I know I though it was quite a fun video to watch.

TheLongshot wrote:I liked it, at least. Certainly not award winning quality, but nice enough to watch.

Thanks guys, glad to read that.
Not award winning quality is correct, not the best I've ever done, as said, more or less just for fun. And if it was fun to the audience, hence that's good :)
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Postby Fungie½ » Mon Aug 02, 2004 12:15 pm

Drama was probably the biggest shocker for me. The audience went crazy for the Evangelion video, but I felt like it was a bit more action oriented than Drama. I voted for "Versailles Paradise" because I thought it followed very closely to the story of the anime and you could really feel the emotion that the story showed. Upbeat was also another shocked, as I felt Vic's video was more of a MAD and that it would go over the audience's head. I believe I voted for "Three Outta Four Ain't Bad" in that category. In any case, it was a very nice contest, and definately an interesting year for the winners ^_^ I'm sure everyone has their own opinion though.
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Postby ANTDrakko » Mon Aug 02, 2004 12:19 pm

*wewt*

I won Best "Themed" video.

Not entirely sure how or why I won, but I guess its kinda kewl. I'm actually more interested in whether or not I came in 2nd or 3rd.

Congrats to everyone else who won!

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Postby Scintilla » Mon Aug 02, 2004 12:27 pm

Fungie½ wrote:Upbeat was also another shocked, as I felt Vic's video was more of a MAD and that it would go over the audience's head.

VicBond007, on the video's info page, wrote:Still, I believe (no pun intended) that this is the first MAD ( http://gaijinfactory.aniport.com/ ) to compete at an American convention...

So you're not the only one who felt that way. :)

Also, the Upbeat category was really close -- Vic won by less than 5% of the vote, IIRC.

And speaking of votes, it was really good to see a 100% voter turnout increase from last year. :D
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Postby Kusoyaro » Mon Aug 02, 2004 12:36 pm

Scintilla wrote:Also, the Upbeat category was really close -- Vic won by less than 5% of the vote, IIRC.

And speaking of votes, it was really good to see a 100% voter turnout increase from last year. :D


Quu brought the numbers to the party afterwards; Vic won by 12 votes.

As usual, I remembered to vote about an hour after it was too late :oops:
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Postby genestarwind21122 » Mon Aug 02, 2004 2:08 pm

ANTDrakko I believe if I remember correctly from the closing ceromonies that they said your video was 2nd place.

Nice work.

And it was great being on the pannel with you and Vic this year.

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Postby jefeesdios » Mon Aug 02, 2004 2:54 pm

JCD wrote:Out of couriousity, can anyone tell me how my video was recieved by the audience? It was "Strike On" set to Princess Nine (Baseball stuff)


I liked it, but there's only so much you can take of pitching and hitting for however long it was.
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Postby downwithpants » Mon Aug 02, 2004 4:30 pm

yay, congrats to the winners and excellent work by everyone who participated. the winners list was a bit of a surprise to me, but since i forgot to submit my ballot i have no grounds on which to oppose it (but i would suggest they hand out golf pencils with the ballots next year).

jcd's i thought was one of the better videos in the upbeat category.
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Postby Scintilla » Mon Aug 02, 2004 4:57 pm

downwithpants wrote:(but i would suggest they hand out golf pencils with the ballots next year)

I was told that they were supposed to have pencils; I think Geoff said at the announcement of the winners that the pencils were lost somehow.
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Postby genestarwind21122 » Mon Aug 02, 2004 6:03 pm

Scintilla wrote:
downwithpants wrote:(but i would suggest they hand out golf pencils with the ballots next year)

I was told that they were supposed to have pencils; I think Geoff said at the announcement of the winners that the pencils were lost somehow.


They did hand out pencils at the first amv showing this year but there weren't enough so the people beside you had to share them with you, but Geoff didn't recieve many of them back.
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