Anime Expo 2010 Anime Music Video Contest Rules Up

[Radical_Yue]

as apposed to Death Note videos that claim to be drama that are miserably edited to Bohemian Rhapsody.

Hey, awesomecore deserves awards too!

There is a difference between awesomecore and retarded Kitler :3

[Kitsuner]

as apposed to Death Note videos that claim to be drama that are miserably edited to Bohemian Rhapsody.

Hey, awesomecore deserves awards too!

There is a difference between awesomecore and retarded Kitler :3

Retarded Kitler is very awesomecore.

[Radical_Yue]

Hey, awesomecore deserves awards too!

There is a difference between awesomecore and retarded Kitler :3

Retarded Kitler is very awesomecore.

Yes, yes he is xD

And grammatical fail yue is quite awesomecore also xD

[Kisanzi]

Expect a (brutally) honest opinion of the contest as soon as I get home from watching it.

I'm really hoping for a "Now I see why I didn't make it" reaction like in 2003 and not a "My video should have been in there" from 2008.

No matter how good, or bad, the contest is I'm sure your videos are probably at a quality level that is beyond that of what made it in. But what you have to consider is that the finalists are based less on meticulous editing quality and mostly on the judge's preference of source and eye for editing detail. Which from seeing a few of the pro finalists this year...is very very askew.

If it makes you feel better, I'm sure that your new stuff is awesome so I'll be sure to bring you a trophy for Best Video NOT in Show. You still deserve on of those for last year anyway.

[Castor Troy]

If it makes you feel better, I'm sure that your new stuff is awesome so I'll be sure to bring you a trophy for Best Video NOT in Show. You still deserve on of those for last year anyway.

Haha, suberunker actually won that once.

Thanks. I would have really loved to see the crowd's reaction to my Dragonball (not Z) video in the Nokia Theatre. The reaction at Akon was priceless.

I can always hope for the preshow at least.

[Sephiroth]

Well glad to finally see the list blasted computer horribly died and i just got it back up. I'll see you fine folks at the dinner at the least. As for the age of vids i think it's up to the contest heads to decide if its right or not.

[s0matic]

Never said Kaze was a jerk (Yue is just having a little evil fun. I'm a bitch. It happens =w=)

And yeah, I did send out messages to people to send in their old videos. And I seem to remember certain responses along the lines of "Well, if I make a video just for this con and it doesn't make it into the finals due a monkey ton of old videos that have been out for well over a year now...well, that kinda sucks."
EXACTLY. Was I nice and sweet while trying to prove this? Hell no. I hope that everyone who loses to/couldn't make it into the contest due to "Hello Fairy" or any other old videos starts to think twice about the "Well, i likez mah video...imma send it summore!"
I'm not telling everyone to "plaayyy faaaiiirr guuuyyysss =<"
Fuck, I don't play fair by any standards. Ask people I play TF2 with, camping is fun
But for anyone who actually gives a shit about the contest and AMVs in general, looking at the finalists and saying "Oh hey...I saw that last year...actually...well over a year ago. It was ok but why are they still sending it to more cons when it's hella old? Wouldn't cha think that after a year and a half they'd have something new to send in? Guess not :/"

If all else fails, screw the audience. I hate the public, but what the hell ever happened to standards? You can go around claiming that the audience will come stare and cheer for a giant smelly dog turd if they haven't seen it previously but what about those who actually give a shit about the shit?
Love my analogy don't ya?

I completely agree with your idea, just not your method. By encouraging people to send old vids to show that the rule should be changed, you're just doing the same thing to the contest that you don't like about it. Personally, I haven't seen many contest coordinators who completely disregard feedback, especially when properly presented. Vlad brought up some really good points and I know you have many of your own. Maybe talk to them about it when you're at AX?

I suppose I fall into the "give a shit about the shit" category. I'm x2'ing what Ileia said, being that I agree with the idea, but I feel this whole method is self-destructive. Given it's been already been said that this point has been brought up last year, but fell on deaf ears, what if worst comes to worse (and I'm betting on this being the case) that this method of bringing up this concern, in this self-destructive fashion, to the powers at be at AX, ends up falling on deaf ears again? It's like "risk big, get back jack-shit" for the "give a shit about the shit" crowd.

I guess I'm addressing this (the issue of old videos, not the method of hoping to "fix" it itself) because, to put a long story short bluntly, AX and this contest hold a personal place in me. I got interested in AMV's cause of AX, got turned on into making my own videos cause of AX, and I look forward to seeing the fruits of my labor because of AX. While I can't say "if this were not the case, maybe I'd get in!" because truthfully, I myself can't be the judge to the quality of my videos, but due to this issue and other issues, I can't help feel that those who have any slightest-bit of emotional attachment to go along with this contest get hit hardest when things such as these are currently ignored.

Anyone can then argue this is a case of "you love her (AX) but she doesn't love you back, so let it go and don't get so worked up about it anymore." Given it's naturally hard to let go of your first crush, but in the end despite how difficult it will be I'll agree and say "you're right, I should move on."

Maybe it's time I moved on.

[XStylus]

Also, cool to see you guys are fans of the Persona openings.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FkqUSkXbq2o "My Drive Thru” by BTaing8"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cJPWdyL4p9A "Persona 4 Opening"

Who needs to edit anymore when you can put the opening on the timeline?

WHAT. THE. FUCK.

So, now. You're probably asking, "Hey dumbass, how the hell did you 'judges' allow a nearly zero-edit vid into the contest?"

What can I say? We got suckered. We're not encyclopedias of every anime show out there. I know that my personal reaction was, "Wow, this is really well done. This is truly Pro material!" I was completely suckered, as were the other ten or so judges on the panel. If we had known, it would've been DQed not 30 seconds into the vid's judging.

I don't know if this was sent in as a purposeful troll or if it was simply an epic failure in the entrant's understanding of the definition of "Pro," but obviously it has succeeded in making fools out of us and our event, and we will need to rethink how to better scrutinize "Pro" vids in the future.

I hope to hell that Michael will consider DQ'ing the vid.

[CodeZTM]

Also, cool to see you guys are fans of the Persona openings.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FkqUSkXbq2o "My Drive Thru” by BTaing8"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cJPWdyL4p9A "Persona 4 Opening"

Who needs to edit anymore when you can put the opening on the timeline?

That is frankly the funniest and most horrible think I think I've ever seen.

Oops. Wrong.

[Kazemon15]

Also, cool to see you guys are fans of the Persona openings.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FkqUSkXbq2o "My Drive Thru” by BTaing8"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cJPWdyL4p9A "Persona 4 Opening"

Who needs to edit anymore when you can put the opening on the timeline?

WHAT. THE. FUCK.

So, now. You're probably asking, "Hey dumbass, how the hell did you 'judges' allow a nearly zero-edit vid into the contest?"

What can I say? We got suckered. We're not encyclopedias of every anime show out there. I know that my personal reaction was, "Wow, this is really well done. This is truly Pro material!" I was completely suckered, as were the other ten or so judges on the panel. If we had known, it would've been DQed not 30 seconds into the vid's judging.

I don't know if this was sent in as a purposeful troll or if it was simply an epic failure in the entrant's understanding of the definition of "Pro," but obviously it has succeeded in making fools out of us and our event, and we will need to rethink how to better scrutinize "Pro" vids in the future.

I hope to hell that Michael will consider DQ'ing the vid.

The same person also created another video called Blue Orchid which was just the openings of the anime Sayonara Zetsubou Sensei which got accepted into Pro too last year...

Not to diss on the editor or anything, but maybe from now on, judges should be more cautious of his entries. All s/he does is put opening videos to music.

And when I think of how Digital Phenomenon got turned down over an AMV solely based on using the effects in the opening... it makes me sad.