TriCounty JaniCon 2008: AMV Contest and Award Ceremony

[jsimpson]

I am proud to announce TriCounty JaniCon's 2nd Annual AMV Contest and Award Ceremony! TriCounty CominCon and JaniCon has joined forces to become one of the fastest growing anime conventions in Florida. We are the same JaniCon, but only bigger and better!

Please review the following information, and head over to our new website at http://www.tricountyjanicon.com

Deadline: Thursday, November 20th, 2008 @ 10pm EST (EXTENDED)

JaniCon is proud to present its 2nd annual AMV Contest and Award Ceremony to honor the anime music videos and their creators. This year, we have taken an extra step ahead by adding more categories, expanding the contest further more, and establish an exclusive award ceremony that will amaze everyone!
Categories:

Most Brilliant-
This award respects the idea being portrayed into the video and delivers its genius message across.

Best Concept-
The award honors the most compelling concept/idea that can be used in the video.

Best Creativity-
An award that celebrates the creativity/artistic aspect of the video. This would include the fine arts, digital arts, and other form of arts that shows its mastery in skills and techniques.

Best Visual Effect-
The honorable award celebrates the hard work and presentation brought to you by the creator for representing the impossible visual effect in the video production.

Best Horror-
This award represents the honor for the most grueling and intense form of the presentation the video has to offer in violence and horror-related. It is a challenge for the creator to represent the horror/genre that deliver the shock value across the audience without offending/disturbing them.

Best Action-
The award simply shows the most outrageous form of action-based video that brings the thrill and allows your blood and adrenaline to the maximum rushing point.

Best Comedy-
An award presents the most humorous and sense of humor presentation set by the filmmaker that actively engaged the audience into a roar of laughter.

Best Performance-
This award reflects the intensity and flawless performing in accuracy between the video and audio interleaving throughout the film.

Best Music Selection-
The award gaze upon the best choice followed by the filmmaker to use and build the contents on the storyboard of the video.

Best Drama-
An award that clearly reflects the suspense and powerful impact of drama felt throughout the film.

Best Editing-
This award represents the most impressive craftsmanship and extensive skills presented by the editor of the submitted video with such delicacy and precision in editing.

ConGoers’ Most Favorite-
This award will be selected by the ConGoers based on the votes they will be conducted at JaniCon 2008 AMV’s Showing Booth.

Judges’ Awards-
This prestigious award selectively choosen by the judges and guests as their personal favorite. Be aware that there may be more than one award in this category depending on the outcome of the contest.

Best Picture- The most prestigious award of all in the 2008 AMV Contest. This awards honor the mastery of the creator for his/her work beyond every standards and expectation overall.

Award Foreword from the AMV Coordinator:
Clearly, these awards are anyone’s game. I strongly recommend you to go toward the best genre you are most familiar or have done well before. If you are not sure what is the best for you, feel free to send me an email at jsimpson@janicon.org. If there is no one competing in a such category, the category may be revoked.

Rules:

- Everyone is able to enter the competition, except JaniCon Staff, Executives, Guest, and any AMV volunteers who would be handling the information-sensitive materials relating to the contest.

- Your entry must by one and only your own work and no one else’s.

- No anonymous submissions will be accepted.

- Please be aware of what you are creating for your PG-13 or below audience.

- Only one submission per person will be allowed in the AMV contest.

- DO NOT ADD a watermark of your own over your final AMV submission.

- The final submission’s duration MUST NOT be shorter then 30 seconds, nor longer then 4 minutes.

- DO NOT add title screens, credit screens, introductions, or non-approved logos (you must contact the AMV coordinator to get the permission) to the video. If you put a title, credit, introduction, or other form of video elements over your final submission relating to you or the video itself, then your submission to AMV Contest MAY be terminated.

Note on adding: You may include a 10 secs or less animation of your own studio, freelance, or some sort of your own personal identity BEFORE play For example, I have my own studio called Washu Studio, so I can add a cool 5 secs animation of Washu Studio doing its magic before presenting the actual final submission.

Final Submission Requirement:
Please use the following requirement below, so we can get your submission quickly and accurately without any difficultly in processing your video.

Resolution Size
720×480 (16:9 or 4:3 Ratio)

Video Rate
29.97/30 FPS(frame per sec) AND NTSC broadcast.
Desired video format(s)
MPEG/MPEG-2 (Moving Picture Expert Group)
WMV (Windows Media Video),
and .MOV (Quicktime/Apple)

Sending the final submission:

The deadline for submissions is November 20th, 2008. All submissions must be in the hands of the AMV coordinator by this time.

Mail it, FTP it, overnight it to us, do whatever you need to do to get it to us by November 20th, 2008 10pm. If it’s not here, we can’t use it.

We accept the following physical media formats:
CD-R
CD-RW
DVD-R
DVD+R
A USB Drive

Please fill out the all the information accurately and fully to ensure there will not be any issues encountered by the AMV Coordinator.

Mail In Submission:

Please accompany all mail-in submissions with a completed Entry Form attached to the media. If this form is not filled out completely, you will be notified and must fix the error BEFORE November 7th, 2008 or your submission will be REJECTED!

JaniCon, LLC
C/O Josh Simpson
1713 El Camino Road #3
Jacksonville, FL 32216


Electronic Submission:

—–>AMV Electronic Submission Link<——

All entries will be screened by the judges and special guests in advance before the event. The judges will score all of the submissions and decide which one has the best potential to make it into as the final selection of each category. during the competition will be at a later time during the convention. For times for showings please see the convention guide or AMV Coordinator.

Disclaimer: The AMV Coordinator is in no way of being involved with the entire judge process except administrating and orchestrating the entire AMV contest to ensure every submission will be reviewed equally. AMV Coordinator is also responsible for the execution of the presentation at the AMV Contest Award Ceremony.

Any issues, concerns, or desire to volunteer, please contact the AMV Coordinator, Josh Simpson, jsimpson@janicon.org.

Source: http://www.janicon.org/?page_id=115

Please feel free to PM or email me anytime if you have any questions! Good luck and happy editing!

-Josh Simpson
2008 JaniCon AMV Coordinator

[Unlimited Rice]

I really wanna represent Jacksonville(DUUUUUUUVAAAALLLLL) but the timing for the convention is bad for me this year.

[Sonydjsnmix]

Wow that's alot of catagories..... I might throw one in this contest.

[Kitsuner]

Time to sweep this.

[Bauzi]

Indeed. You have a lot of interessting categories.

Too bad that there is a PG-13 rule .-.

[jsimpson]

Indeed. You have a lot of interessting categories.

Too bad that there is a PG-13 rule .-.

You have to keep in mind that this is a public event and the award ceremony will be handle in front of a live audience that varies different ages from young to adult. I may announce a revision to the rules about entering in a PG-13 or above category. That is currently pending as we sort our arrangements out.

Thank you and good luck!

-Josh Simpson
AMV Coordinator

[Bauzi]

Ah I´m not complaining. It´s just that I often can´t be in contests because they´re held for PG-13. I see my vid as 16+. Well all in all it has scenes that I don´t really want to show a 13 year old so I just leave it with not entering.

Your idea about a PG-13+ video is nice thought.

[Kitsuner]

- DO NOT add title screens, credit screens, introductions, or non-approved logos (you must contact the AMV coordinator to get the permission) to the video. If you put a title, credit, introduction, or other form of video elements over your final submission relating to you or the video itself, then your submission to AMV Contest MAY be terminated.

Note on adding: You may include a 10 secs or less animation of your own studio, freelance, or some sort of your own personal identity BEFORE play For example, I have my own studio called Washu Studio, so I can add a cool 5 secs animation of Washu Studio doing its magic before presenting the actual final submission.

So adding IS allowed, so long as it's before the video?

In other news, there's only space to enter one song on the submission form. If my video includes multiple songs, should I only list one or should I call it Various?

[jsimpson]

What you can do is enter the name of the song, then add a common, then add another one. . . By the way, there has been an issue of uploading the file, but I Am working on it as we speak to fix it. I will let you know ASAP as it comes back fixed.

Thanks,
Josh Simpson

[meleechampion]

Resolution Size
640×480 (4:3 Ratio)OR 720×480 (16:9 Ratio)

That's.... not right. 720x480 is just 4:3 with 0.9PAR


Anyway!
This is coming up real soon. Anyone entered yet? I doubt I'll have anything new to show. =(

I wish I could go, I hear Janicon's a lot of fun... but I'm kinda poor atm. =P