Otakon 2006: Iron Editor Battle Royale
In the beginning, the Iron Editor department prided itself on it's organized, structured tournament of champions. However the youth of today have little disregard for rules. The competition was plagued by no-shows and last minute stand-ins. The basic structure of the tournament fell into disarray.
These delinquencies must not go unpunished.
And so the administration devised a plan to teach these ruffians a lesson.
The Iron Editor: Battle Royale.
- The event will take place at Otakon 2006, at a time that will be decided sometime in the near future.
- The competitors are as follows:
--- VegettoEX and MeriC (as a team)
--- Bogosort
--- AtomX
- That's right. 3 competitors.
- Each competitor will have 2 hours to create a music video fitting the following theme:
--- Action Movie Trailer
- Each competitor will be given 5 video sources, in their entirety (as they appear on the DVD), as well as 1 secret ingredient. The competitors must use at least 3 of the given sources, plus the secret ingredient.
--- "Use" is defined as "at least 1 second of footage, visible in the video".
- The animes are as follows:
--- Kiddy Grade 13-15
--- Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children
--- Chrono Crusade 1-5
--- Loveless 1-5
--- Wolf's Rain 24-26
--- Plus a secret ingredient of awesome proportions!
- The final video must be longer than 1 minute. If youre trailer audio is shorter than that, send it to us first, and an exception might be made. No exceptions will be made the day of the competition.
- All contestants will be editing on matching machines. They will have Adobe Premiere 6.5, Adobe Photoshop CS2, and virtualdub at their disposal.
- The contestants must bring their own audio in .wav format to the contest. Contestants can send in their audio early.
--- The theme is "action movie trailer" and thus, movie trailer audio is perfectly acceptable. Songs are perfectly fine too, so long as they fit the theme.
--- The contestants are more than welcome to, in fact, encouraged to cut their audio prior to arriving at the contest.
- The final video need not be rendered when time is up. When time is called, assistants will render whatever is on the Premiere timeline. No further editing can take place once time is called.
- Videos will be judged and rated using the following credentials:
--- Technique, style, pace, creativity, adherance to theme, use of secret ingredient, quality, and replayability.
- Two winners will be chosen to go on to the FINALS at AWA 2006. The loser will get made fun of later in private.
- As usual there will be entertainment, games, and general mockery going on during the editing.
There are more surprises on the way, but don't expect them to be announced before the event. You'll just have to show up!
I'd so be up for that. 3-on-3, 'tis the wave of the future!