Katsucon AMV Finalist List

[Kusoyaro]

Platinum Ninja - Sappy Self Indulgence - Hsien Lee

I don't even know what the hell that was. I was at a theater watching Constantine at the time, and when Alan called to tell me about it, I thought he was joking. It was a nice surprise, though

[krzT]

The rendition of Sappy Self-Indulgence at the awards ceremony was priceless. I sang along.

And a little loudly, at that.
Congratulations Kusoyaro/Hsien on the award!

[genestarwind21122]

I had Glory of Love stuck in my head for the rest of the day.

Oops Was the song that addictive? I had a great time at the convention I have to say it was a real treat for the amv contest. I look forward to making more amvs for future contest. You can count on that I'll make another video for Katsucon next year. Congrats to all the winners. This was the last time I was going to submit Fighting For Your Love to a Contest. I want to thank you all for your support and the hand clapping during the middle of my video. lol. I'm glad that you enjoyed it. Once again thankyou and I'll see you all again. Next stop Anime Mid Atlantic.

Gene Starwind 21122

[MeriC]

I had fun! My awards came totally unexpected, especially since there was some pretty fierce competition in the drama category. The ones that stood out most to me were MeriC's Love is Another Word for Regret, dji's Time is Running Out (no link yet), and ssgwnbtd's Metropolis.

I also enjoyed Senta's Won't Be Ignored, gambitt's The Azumanga Boogie, and the Yu Yu Busters video.

I had Glory of Love stuck in my head for the rest of the day.

The rendition of Sappy Self-Indulgence at the awards ceremony was priceless. I sang along.

Oh wow, considering I haven't plugged the new video yet, I'm shocked and happy to see you've already found it online. I'm very happy to hear you liked the AMV. I had a lot of fun making it (oooh... Tsukasa....)!

[dji]

I had fun! My awards were totally unexpected, especially since there was some pretty fierce competition in the drama category. The ones that stood out most to me were MeriC's Love is Another Word for Regret, dji's Time is Running Out (no link yet), and ssgwnbtd's Metropolis.

I also enjoyed Senta's Won't Be Ignored, gambitt's The Azumanga Boogie, and the Yu Yu Busters video.

I had Glory of Love stuck in my head for the rest of the day.

The rendition of Sappy Self-Indulgence at the awards ceremony was priceless. I sang along.

I will have a link up soon.. I'm off tomorrow.. so I will probably upload it sometime tomorrow.. but after I get some rest. I'm glad you like T.I.R.O.

[narcted]

Congrats to everyone! I was just happy to see my vid on the big screen. I didn't get to see the whole contest though, because I was working registration and other things, like the encore showing getting started late because of the computer problem.

Anyone catch the cosplay? Last entry was a good Hellsing cosplay, manga, and they were using Mitternacht as the music.

[GinnySeta]

I figured I'd cross post this here, from the Katsucon forums. I have shout outs to the winners, and other videos I really liked that I will get to...But this is my feedback about what I felt could have been improved in the contest.

I am not trying to offend the people in charge, but the amv contest seemed poorly organized to me. For me personally, I would have prefered:
- The AMVs to have been categorized by genre.
- The ballot to have listed the song title and anime used, because it was difficult to remember which video was which by video title alone.
- There to be more of a break between videos. Not a HUGE one, mind you, just enough to have time to applaud the video without it falling into the next video.
- The viewers choice to be divided into categories. I know I am going to sound like I'm trying to promote myself here, since yeah, I know...my video was a drama vid. But if you ask a person for their favorite video, most people I know would choose the video that made them laugh. It felt like a great deal of the entries were drama, yet only 1/9 of the main awards went to a drama video....not sure how many of the JCs It just seems a little...I don't know, unbalanced? Maybe I'm just a sap - I've always been a drama fan.
- For the judges NOT to choose "entry music" that happens to be the same music as a video up for nomination in the same category that the judge is announcing - when the Linkin Park song started to play for the judge of the Action winner, everyone around me thought the video that had been to that song won. And it didn't. I know it was an honest misunderstanding, but had that happened to me, I would have been in tears - and rightfully so.
- For the judges to practice a bit before the announce their winner, or kindly let another judge do it? I'm NOT downing any of the judges, in fact I admire them for getting up there at all! It takes courage, and speaking is something that not all of us are good at, and I understand that! But it doesn't seem fair to the creators OR the speaker to have someone who has difficulty speaking clearly, loudly, etc etc annouce the winners? I just like to think our AMVs should be handled in a quasi-professional manner...although maybe I'm just niave.
- ..."Maruto". Need I say more? Proofreading doesn't hurt!

This is without calling attention to the technical difficulties - I have no idea what caused them, so they very well could be something that the judges could have helped. But I just felt the need to express a few things that I felt could have been better. I understand that, even if I wasn't satisfied with the result, a lot of hard work went into putting this contest together. I hope that next years can be better.

[Brakus]

Making a pre-emptive strike here, there's someone on the Katsu forums complaining that her video didn't make the final cut. And this is after the final cut list had been announced weeks ago. She claims she's not making excuses, yet she worries that other videos had more objectionable content that made the final cut.

I entered 2 videos. Only one made the cut list. I didn't whine about it. Last year I entered 1 video. It didn't make the cut at all. I didn't whine about it.

Granted I entered a video at AWA Pro, yet it didn't get nominated as a finalist for any categories. I whined about it back then because AWA is considered *the* AMV convention, but I eventually got over it.

The point is, as I've learned, not to belabor the fact that you didn't make the final cut. Whining about it won't make anybody feel better. I learned that lesson the hard way last year at AWA.

Now onto the contest itself, it kinda seemed that everything was thrown together. And the stuff that some of us feared would happen did happen. Almost everybody's entry had some typo of some kind, either on the ballot or on the title card. Videos weren't grouped by genre -- my drama/romance video was shown between a hard action video and a goofy comedy video. It's kinda weird to jump from one mood to another, especially since the videos kept coming one after another without so much as a break as GinnySeta said.

I thought the contest was good, although there were some excellent entries and some bad entries. All in all the videos were good this year, but no big standouts. Now if we could have gotten the shows to start on time.....

[Scintilla]

Now onto the contest itself, it kinda seemed that everything was thrown together. And the stuff that some of us feared would happen did happen. Almost everybody's entry had some typo of some kind, either on the ballot or on the title card.

Four words: "Linking in the Park".

(So does this mean we get to see another scanned and mocked ballot this year?)

[Brakus]

(So does this mean we get to see another scanned and mocked ballot this year?)

I don't know about mocked, but...