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Postby MarzGurl » Wed Jul 21, 2004 7:28 am

Had I not already submitted, if this were made into a contest I probably would not even submit an entry. There's only so much that I can do with Windows Movie Maker. And I feel like my AMVs are... nice. They're like nice tributes. But I know it would get blown out of the water by PLENTY other AMV creators. I'd like people to see my love of a game/series (most recently Chrono Trigger, animated and created by Dragon Ball Z creator Akira Toriyama, a wonderful artist, may I add). ANYWAY! I know I'm not that great. And a CONTEST with greater material might make me feel like I shouldn't even bother ('cause we all know the kind of things that Adobe Premiere can whip out that Windows Movie Maker simply can't).
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Postby Machine » Wed Jul 21, 2004 3:05 pm

Driftpeasant wrote:So one last question: of those of you who are/might submit videos, will the existence of a contest or showcase change your entries in any way? Will you submit/not submit/create new/submit old depending on which one it is?

And for those of you who are on the contest side, do you submit to A-Kon any more or less because it's fairly poorly run?



1. For a contest, chances are I would try to make something new for it.

2. For a showcase...I would probably just hand in past stuff I've already made in the 2004 year.



As for Akon, I tend to submit all of my works to Texas Cons when I can. Each contest has their own way of running, but I tend to have patience with it as long as there are other good videos in the contest for me to enjoy :D
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Postby Machine » Wed Jul 21, 2004 3:08 pm

MarzGurl wrote:And a CONTEST with greater material might make me feel like I shouldn't even bother ('cause we all know the kind of things that Adobe Premiere can whip out that Windows Movie Maker simply can't).


MexicanJunior used WMM for a long time. Sometimes he would beat people like me who used Preimere in contests.

What ushicon can do is have both a Contest and a Showcase.

That way, people can enter into either section and not have to worry about competition or their AMVs not getting shown.
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Postby badmartialarts » Wed Jul 21, 2004 6:27 pm

Yes....this is such a simple idea that it completely escaped me. :)

Machine wrote:What Ushicon can do is have both a Contest and a Showcase.


For a contest, I would feel I needed to create something competitive. But for the showcase, I can send in LAIN DOES NOT DANCE and feel good. :)
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FTP!!!

Postby Driftpeasant » Sat Jul 31, 2004 1:42 pm

Well, we finally got the FTP site up and working.

Right now it's at AMV.HEADGEAR.ORG (this may change to the Ushicon.com site soon, but...).

Please upload to the Incoming AMV folder. The PUB directory will not accept uploads.

Login is anonymous.

Right now we only have 100k/sec on the pipe. It may increase if we end up getting enough submissions.

Also, the fate of the Contest/Showcase/Both/Neither/Riverdance debate will be decided this evening. I'll update tomorrow.

So, please upload early and often.

Happy AMV'ing.

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Update

Postby Driftpeasant » Sat Jul 31, 2004 7:01 pm

We have a contest now. Further news/rules later.

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Re: Update

Postby Machine » Sun Aug 01, 2004 12:44 am

Driftpeasant wrote:We have a contest now. Further news/rules later.

--Chase


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Re: Update

Postby Hitori » Sun Aug 01, 2004 1:07 am

Machine wrote:
Driftpeasant wrote:We have a contest now. Further news/rules later.

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Contest Rules

Postby Driftpeasant » Sun Aug 01, 2004 3:02 pm

Alrighty.

First let me begin by saying: USHICON STILL HAS THE AMV SHOWCASE. It will still take any and all submissions, bounded by time and the guidelines, of course. Because we like the idea of the Showcase, but do hear the cries of those for a contest, we have instituted two LIMITED contests.

The first is the Hentai Music Video contest. It will, of course, be run during the Hentaifest. While I've not seen any child porn hentai (and never want to), and we realize the Supreme Court has ruled it legal, don't submit any to the Con. If you do, we'll accept the video, tell you we're showing it, and then have Security kick the ever lovin' crap out of you near the dumpsters. Also, if you're not 18 and make a submission for this contest, do realize that you will NOT get to see the contest, or the Hentaifest in general. The judging on this one will be a bit odd. We at Ushicon, being fat pale nerds, have been to a number of Hentaifests in our day. As such, we know that giving any sort of paper product to people in a Hentaifest only encourages deviant behavior. So for the "Best Video" award, the judging will be done by audience applause. There will also be a Judges' Artistic Award. So if you've been channelling the spirit of Stanley Kubrick and/or Linda Lovelace, and you've not found an outlet for that yet, please submit something.

The second contest is the Theme Contest. As one might expect, this will be videos with a specific theme. This will only have one award, the Best Video (or some similar yet more high falutin' title) award. It will be decided by the audience, probably through balloting, though we may rig a noise meter and use applause.

There will be prizes for all awards. We're not sure what they'll be yet. Current thoughts are DVDs or engraved Cowbells.

Oh yeah... the theme. Well, since it's the end of Winter, and we're all getting tired of it by that point, and because, more importantly, Ushicon broke me up with my girlfriend (well, not REALLY, but it was when we realized it wasn't going to work. 14 months of my life... wasted... *sniff*), your 2005 Theme is... HATE.

Go, make cool videos. Or uncool ones. We have 2 contests and a showcase for you to submit them to.
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Postby badmartialarts » Sun Aug 01, 2004 4:34 pm

Might want to crosspost to AMV Contests forum.


A Hentai AMV contest....hrm.....getting source, and then trying to top the almightly MexicanJunior, it may be too much for me. :o

As for "Hate," hrm....have to be in a worse mood to come up with one for that....

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Re: Contest Rules

Postby Machine » Mon Aug 02, 2004 2:33 am

Driftpeasant wrote:Oh yeah... the theme. Well, since it's the end of Winter, and we're all getting tired of it by that point, and because, more importantly, Ushicon broke me up with my girlfriend (well, not REALLY, but it was when we realized it wasn't going to work. 14 months of my life... wasted... *sniff*), your 2005 Theme is... HATE.


A Theme Contest?

You didn't think this through did you?

So we are going to be watching nothing but HATE themed videos for the contest? No drama? No comedy? No Parody?


But I figured as much would come out from a CON with no CONTEST experience.
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Postby Driftpeasant » Mon Aug 02, 2004 7:34 am

The theme is hate. If you want to make a drama based video that centers around hate, go ahead. Same with parody. It's a theme, not an indication of the way the video has to go.

I admit I'm not really an AMV creator past the "hey, that idea sounds cool" stage, but I can think of several ways off the top of my head to make a fairly funny video centered around hate. "Stars" from Les Miserables set to Digi Charat footage of interplay between Rabi en Rose and Digiko would seem to both be funny, damned weird, and go with the hate theme. "Hate Is All You Need" by Delgados set to footage of Touga from Ranma 1/2 would probably end up fairly touching, but could very easily be played for laughs. Much as I am loathe to admit I know what the song is about, Justin Timberlake's "Cry Me A River" could be set to any of the many painful relationships in Marmalade Boy and come out quite well. If you make it with Rokutanda as the central character, I can't see it coming out as anything but funny. While I don't know if it qualifies as a music video, per se, I imagine you could come up with a decent trailer rehash of "The War of the Roses" to anime footage and I don't know of much that symbolizes hate better. Pretty much everyone on this forum is better than AMV creation than I am. I have every confidence that these are not the only possible ideas centered on hate.

We're not looking for some ode to hatred, or a paean to pain or anything. Just something centered around a central theme. That theme, this year at least, is Hate. I imagine next year it'll be Winter, or Cows, or Texas, or perhaps Slurpees. Possibly something else entirely.

But to answer your question, yes, we did give this some thought. I'm sorry if it doesn't meet with your approval. Part of the reason for the decision was to try to encourage new videos for submission, because it seems unlikely that lots of folks will just randomly have hate themed videos lying around. At the same time, if you happen to HAVE a really good hate themed video, we don't want to exclude you from submitting it. Part of the reason was that we didn't want to just have a traditional AMV contest. We'd like to be a bit different. Thus, a theme contest.

[jibe] Of course, if you don't think your skills are up to it...[/jibe]

Also, given that this is also posted in the AMV Contests forum, perhaps the discussion over the contest, now that we have one, should be had over there...
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Postby Wonka » Tue Aug 03, 2004 12:44 pm

Hmmm, I hate contest eh? I think I can manage that :)

Heres to a rockin' Milocon!
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Re: Contest Rules

Postby AMV_4000 » Tue Aug 03, 2004 8:25 pm

Driftpeasant wrote:Alrighty.

The first is the Hentai Music Video contest. It will, of course, be run during the Hentaifest. While I've not seen any child porn hentai (and never want to), and we realize the Supreme Court has ruled it legal, don't submit any to the Con. If you do, we'll accept the video, tell you we're showing it, and then have Security kick the ever lovin' crap out of you near the dumpsters. Also, if you're not 18 and make a submission for this contest, do realize that you will NOT get to see the contest, or the Hentaifest in general. The judging on this one will be a bit odd. We at Ushicon, being fat pale nerds, have been to a number of Hentaifests in our day. As such, we know that giving any sort of paper product to people in a Hentaifest only encourages deviant behavior. So for the "Best Video" award, the judging will be done by audience applause. There will also be a Judges' Artistic Award. So if you've been channelling the spirit of Stanley Kubrick and/or Linda Lovelace, and you've not found an outlet for that yet, please submit something.


bad ass... and yes there are a lot of child pron hentais out there... this makes me want to enter the contest... so expect me to enter!!

Driftpeasant wrote:Oh yeah... the theme. Well, since it's the end of Winter, and we're all getting tired of it by that point, and because, more importantly, Ushicon broke me up with my girlfriend (well, not REALLY, but it was when we realized it wasn't going to work. 14 months of my life... wasted... *sniff*), your 2005 Theme is... HATE.


hate... wow, you fell right into my lap on this one.... im working on a video about the amvs that i hate... looks like i might have to premier it at this con!! wewt!!
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Postby badmartialarts » Sun Nov 14, 2004 1:07 pm

Just giving this a bump now that the end of the year approacheth.
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