Anime Banzai 2008 AMV Contest

YouTube · Post by **Rider4Z** » Mon Oct 27, 2008 8:05 pm

whoa... i've never known a con to not play them by category o_O

zanedomain · Post by **zanedomain** » Mon Oct 27, 2008 8:21 pm

Rider4Z wrote:whoa... i've never known a con to not play them by category o_O

We tried that but had problems, we mix them up to keep people from leaving during Romance/Drama category.

YouTube · Post by **Rider4Z** » Mon Oct 27, 2008 10:17 pm

zanedomain wrote:
Rider4Z wrote:whoa... i've never known a con to not play them by category o_O
We tried that but had problems, we mix them up to keep people from leaving during Romance/Drama category.

rofl XD

Kazemon15 · Post by **Kazemon15** » Mon Oct 27, 2008 10:32 pm

Rider4Z wrote:
zanedomain wrote:
Rider4Z wrote:whoa... i've never known a con to not play them by category o_O
We tried that but had problems, we mix them up to keep people from leaving during Romance/Drama category.
rofl XD

Whatcha talking about? Drama is the best category! XDD

NightHawk · Post by **NightHawk** » Mon Oct 27, 2008 11:58 pm

Rider4Z wrote:
zanedomain wrote:
Rider4Z wrote:whoa... i've never known a con to not play them by category o_O
We tried that but had problems, we mix them up to keep people from leaving during Romance/Drama category.
rofl XD

That is actually pretty funny.

Sad, but true. A lot of people don't like the sappy vids that are usually in Drama.

zanedomain · Post by **zanedomain** » Tue Oct 28, 2008 2:12 pm

Hey, It works. We packed the room with standing room only after the first few AMV's and it remained crowded.

CorpseGoddess · Post by **CorpseGoddess** » Tue Oct 28, 2008 2:42 pm

NightHawk wrote:
Rider4Z wrote:
zanedomain wrote:
Rider4Z wrote:whoa... i've never known a con to not play them by category o_O
We tried that but had problems, we mix them up to keep people from leaving during Romance/Drama category.
rofl XD
That is actually pretty funny.

Sad, but true. A lot of people don't like the sappy vids that are usually in Drama.

They mixed up the entries at AE this year, and I thought it was fantastic. I find the problem isn't necessarily the drama vids in and of themselves (although they do tend to be the audience's least favourite to watch), I think it's the "tl; dr" syndrome. It's like getting smacked with a wall of text---you know that for the next 20 minutes or so, things are going to be slowly paced, no action, etc. Drama/romance vids don't tend to break out of their respective editing moulds much so people get...bored.

Org Profile · Post by **Vlad G Pohnert** » Wed Oct 29, 2008 12:01 am

Rider4Z wrote:whoa... i've never known a con to not play them by category o_O

Then you've never been to the cons I run contests for

Vlad

Ryvannis · Post by **Ryvannis** » Thu Oct 30, 2008 5:41 pm

CorpseGoddess wrote:
NightHawk wrote:
Rider4Z wrote:
zanedomain wrote:
Rider4Z wrote:whoa... i've never known a con to not play them by category o_O
We tried that but had problems, we mix them up to keep people from leaving during Romance/Drama category.
rofl XD
That is actually pretty funny.

Sad, but true. A lot of people don't like the sappy vids that are usually in Drama.
They mixed up the entries at AE this year, and I thought it was fantastic. I find the problem isn't necessarily the drama vids in and of themselves (although they do tend to be the audience's least favourite to watch), I think it's the "tl; dr" syndrome. It's like getting smacked with a wall of text---you know that for the next 20 minutes or so, things are going to be slowly paced, no action, etc. Drama/romance vids don't tend to break out of their respective editing moulds much so people get...bored.

Not true, at all. Everyone has their own way of enjoying a drama video and I can say that makes no sense at all. Whats the point of having the contest then? Do you not enjoy them?

Think about the people that put a good amount of effort into the videos and then say they are boring. It's drama, it's supposed to create emotion.
I can say the same thing about action and comedy videos, but I wont.

CorpseGoddess · Post by **CorpseGoddess** » Thu Oct 30, 2008 6:01 pm

Ryvannis wrote:
CorpseGoddess wrote:
NightHawk wrote:
Rider4Z wrote:
zanedomain wrote:
Rider4Z wrote:whoa... i've never known a con to not play them by category o_O
We tried that but had problems, we mix them up to keep people from leaving during Romance/Drama category.
rofl XD
That is actually pretty funny.

Sad, but true. A lot of people don't like the sappy vids that are usually in Drama.
They mixed up the entries at AE this year, and I thought it was fantastic. I find the problem isn't necessarily the drama vids in and of themselves (although they do tend to be the audience's least favourite to watch), I think it's the "tl; dr" syndrome. It's like getting smacked with a wall of text---you know that for the next 20 minutes or so, things are going to be slowly paced, no action, etc. Drama/romance vids don't tend to break out of their respective editing moulds much so people get...bored.
Not true, at all. Everyone has their own way of enjoying a drama video and I can say that makes no sense at all. Whats the point of having the contest then? Do you not enjoy them?

Think about the people that put a good amount of effort into the videos and then say they are boring. It's drama, it's supposed to create emotion.
I can say the same thing about action and comedy videos, but I wont.

I wasn't saying the videos *themselves* are boring. I said that people get bored after a solid block of them.

No offense was meant. And obviously this is just my opinion based on my experience. I'm certainly not saying that people don't get bored during a block of action vids, because yes--*those* tend to look and sound all same-y too.

Perhaps what I meant to convey is that drama/romance vids tend to be longer than the average amv (again, in my experience) and that the songs tend to be quieter and slower. And that can make people antsy.