I did. It takes me to the search page itself, and just loops when I search "Risa88". I have been on this site long before too, I know how it works. I even said "Thereafter" referring that I have proceeded passed that point.BasharOfTheAges wrote:... hit proceed...Project Air wrote:I cannot see. It keeps taking me to the pledge page, and thereafter, nothing.
Anime Boston 2007 Ballot - Updated with winners
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terribly sorry! i didn't know about that. i wondered why it gave a diff. website name. makes sense why though! i just wanted to warn others. i would assume that others don't want them up there.wurpess wrote:if you mean the link in bigfluffypillow's post, you have to copy the link, past in the url bar thingie, replace boochsack with y-o-u-t-u-b-e(taking the dashes out.) Then hit go. We generally don't allow tube links here because of a lot of past problems that have nothing to do with us.
btw---i LOVE your avatar wurpess!! lenore rocks!
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lol. No prob. Yeah, its the stealing of vids and complaining to admin here who can't do anything over there that is the reason for no more youtube links. Though she videotaped them on the screen. And it looks really crappy.bigfluffypillow wrote:terribly sorry! i didn't know about that. i wondered why it gave a diff. website name. makes sense why though! i just wanted to warn others. i would assume that others don't want them up there.wurpess wrote:if you mean the link in bigfluffypillow's post, you have to copy the link, past in the url bar thingie, replace boochsack with y-o-u-t-u-b-e(taking the dashes out.) Then hit go. We generally don't allow tube links here because of a lot of past problems that have nothing to do with us.
btw---i LOVE your avatar wurpess!! lenore rocks!
But anyway. lol.Lol. Thanx! I love Lenore!!! *^_^* (obviously, if I put her in my av. lol.)
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That doesn't really matter. Some of us would like to control our distribution channels... specifically not having our stuff up on youbue..Project Air wrote:Yea, that would be why. They are video recordings, so at least she doesn't have the real winners and trying to take credit for them, to say the least.
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Thank you, glad you enjoyed them.3DG3 wrote:Hey Project Air, where can I find your two videos? I have all the ones available for download, and your two were definitely two of my favorites of the entire contest.
Mine will be up sometime soon, Air, maybe in a week tops, but it depends how much free time I have to do so. Kanon's won't be for a while, seeing it isn't all the way set for uploads, and with my work catching me offguard.
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Congratulations, Everybody! <3
Same here!bigfluffypillow wrote: btw- after seeing bashar's super-kick-ass-video, i felt i got schooled. lol
gotta love the orange range! w00t!
Within the first 15 seconds of the song I turned to the people I was with and said, "I just lost." The effects, timing, footage, and everything was amazing beyond belief. I've been singing Kirikirimai all week. 
So darn catchy!The videos in all categories were excellent. You're all so talented and deserved 100% to be in the contest.
Congrats to everyone!Forsaken should be up pretty soon. It's pending right now. I'm so sorry for the delay! I had a busy week this week. I will post the link when it's all set.
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Copied from my post on the Anime Boston forums, my review/thoughts on the contest:
So, the contest has been over for a week now, let's talk about it. My review of the contest (followed by my suggestions for next year) is below - all opinions are my own, I am incredibly cynical and really don't care if anyone is offended by my opinion, blah blah blah, etc.
The Set-Up
Positive: A successful return to Main Events for the Friday night screening with no technical glitches to be seen.
Negative: Spotty attendance on Friday night due to the Cherry Blossom Ball, a 10AM screening on Saturday morning might have been a little early (especially with really nothing going on in Main Events over the course of the con save for AMVs and the Masq).
Tech Comments: Vids seemed a little oversaturated when it came to color, my bet is the projectors?
My take: Friday's attendance is c'est-la-vie, as there will always be something big happening on Friday night - Saturday's screening should have started at 11 or so.
Drama
Review: Certainly not the strongest that the category has been at AB - few videos really stood out in a positive way, but nothing was so bad that it deserved being noted as such. The strongest videos in the category had to have been jade-eyed-angel's "Satellite" (Chrono Crusade to "On My Shoulder" by Westlife) and Skyebox's "Learning to Fly" (the Kiki's Delivery Service vid). Actually, that's a misnomer - the best video in the category was Guyv's "Don't Get Lost in Heaven", and my disappointment in the category's winner (one of 3 IMHO unremarkable FFVII:AC vids that somehow made it to the big show) was eclipsed only by my disappointment that Guyv didn't make it onto the ballot, which might just have been the tragedy of the contest. Check out his video - it's one of the best Drama vids to have been released in the last year, hands-down.
Disturbing Trends: Yes, we know that Chrono and Rosette die at the end of the anime. Stop ending your videos with the death scene, it cheapens what I consider to be one of the best anime endings in recent memory.
Pleasant Surprises: "Learning to Fly" has caused me get Kelly Clarkson's "Breakaway" stuck in my head. Great Ghibli vid and one for the collection. Incidentally, the song played over the loudspeaker system when I arrived at Logan Airport on Sunday morning. Bizarre.
Fun/Upbeat/Other
One of the two strongest categories in the contest - not a single video didn't deserve to be in there. Three great trailers and three great music vids, all of which were immensely enjoyable.
Disturbing Trends: After hearing reaction to Al's "Something Wicked This Way Comes" I am shocked and appalled at how many people haven't seen Totoro. Seriously.
Pleasant Surprises: "The Distance to Nagasaki" taking second place (winning due to the Best in Show rollover). Great concept, great execution, and I was surprised that the award didn't go to one of the FMA trailers - perhaps the fangirls split the vote?
Romance
The other strong category in the contest - Again, not a video that didn't deserve to be there, and I'm proud to have gotten my ass kicked by "All Along." I'm normally incredibly critical of multi-anime vids using popular songs as I consider it to be the easiest form of playing to the audience, but this was a perfectly-executed vid and deserves all the recognition it gets. Glad to see the category hit its peak, I hope it stays there for a while to come.
Disturbing Trends: None that I can really come up with. Maybe it's a little disturbing that submitters are doing a much better job of branching out w/ different source footage, as it's something I hope for yearly.
Pleasant Surprises: I'd viewed "We Lived to Love" before the contest (whee scoping out competition!) and noticed that the XviD version of the video was incredibly overfiltered. The slight color oversaturation that I mentioned earlier actually made the video look a whole lot better on the big screen than it did on my monitor. Who'd have thunk it?
Action
This was dominated by Songbird21's and Bashar's vid and nobody can deny otherwise. Everything else ran from "meh" to "decent." Wendy and Justin clearly put the most work into their videos and it showed.
Disturbing Trends: Dear Cthulhu make the mediocre Advent Children videos stop. The same scenes keep showing up, and nobody's doing anything different with them.
Pleasant Surprises: The Saint Seiya video was a welcome jaunt into the realm of older anime - I commend the editor for branching out and not defaulting to what's new and hot.
Comedy
Warning: this is going to be my harshest category statement, and if you do not agree with it then you obviously didn't see the contest screening and should promptly cease whatever "Dan, you're *so mean*!" rant you have envisioned. I know that I have a reputation for being the Resident Asshole (a role I embrace like it was kin, for I don't take myself nearly as seriously as most people who don't know me well enough). That said, I believe everything I'm about to say with utmost certainty; I know that other editors (and most attendees) agree with me in private but I'm the only one (or at least, the first) who will come out to say it in public. I see this as a necessary public service, much in the way that medieval warlords would impale the heads of their enemies onto spikes as a warning to others. I offer no sympathy to those who I am about to implicate - you dug your own grave this time around, and while I will speak in somewhat general terms I am more than willing to name names as if I were Walt Disney and the forumites were Joe McCarthy.
If your first name is not Lyndsey or Alberto, and you submitted to Comedy? You should be ashamed of yourself.
Aside from those two videos (both of which deserved their trophies, by all means), only one video in the category could possibly have approached redeemable if the editor had followed offered advice by many others. Poorly encoded footage, hardcoded subtitles, jokes that go on for about a minute after they stop being funny, 4-minute setups for jokes that weren't even funny in the first place, and jokes that were funny 2 years ago when they were told in 10 seconds during AMV Hell 3 by editors who knew how to deliver a punchline and pull out before it got stale. That's about as detailed as I can get without forcing myself to start naming videos (and editors) and going down the line, shattering dreams and collecting skulls for my ever-growing throne. Absolutely horrid. I think I know what Simon Cowell feels like during American Idol auditions.
Disturbing Trends: Only 6 submissions? Comedy is the hardest category to edit for, but my god - give me a day and my AIM buddy list and I could strongarm more submissions out of editors I know than that. I hope this isn't indicative of how the Comedy scene will be for the rest of the year as the impact of AMV Hell slowly starts to fade - I've heard Tekkoshokon had a similar problem, so who knows. Additionally, the editors of the four non-funny vids seem to have forgotten the necessity of peer review when editing for Comedy, as it's pretty obvious that prior to submission, none of them showed their videos to anyone with the intent to figure out whether or not the concepts were actually funny. When you are going to show your video to a wide audience, having someone (or many people) beta your video is not merely a suggestion, but a necessity.
Pleasant Surprises: That Al was the only editor to use something as timely as the Mooninite incident was quite shocking, but I'm certainly glad that he was not only the one one to do it, but he did a damned good job of it.
Comments on the Contest Overall
-What's up with the excessive use of dub audio? Not only should this be against the rules (it is in every other AMV contest I know and has to do with plausible deniability re: copyright infringement on the English dub), but it's a plain bad idea to begin with. If your story is so weak that it requires dub audio to prove a point, then you need to rethink your concept. Also, some people failed at audio mixing.
-Aspect Ratios - it seems like a few videos had incorrect aspect ratios, but that could just have been me. In either case, check before you edit!
-Hooray for editor representation - 8 out of 9 trophies were picked up at the con, which I believe is a record. Additionally there were around a dozen editors at the dinner on Thursday and plenty more at the con - we've come a long way from that first AMV Editor gathering in the tiny club room at AB '03.
My thoughts on improving next year:
-AB is less than 11 months from now, and as the con moves earlier and earlier in the calendar it falls out of sync with the schedule that non-attending editors edit by. This means that you'll get fewer and fewer entries from editors who aren't editing specifically for AB, which means there will be a drop in overall quality (because AB is still a Regional Con, a con that draws editors from a large region, instead of an Editor Con that draws editors from *everywhere* like ACen, AWA, etc). To prevent this the contest needs to be finalized and promoted early and often - at the very least 6 months previous to the con, with a thread on the 'Org bumped regularly to garner attention. The deadline needs to be as close to the con as possible (V-Day weekend, perhaps?), as well.
-Add a "no dub audio" rule to bring AB in line w/ other major contests. This is a legal liability that needs to be addressed.
-Later screening on Saturday, please? 11AM isn't much to ask for!
-At this point, there's enough editors submitting (and attending) AB that an Editor's Choice award (akin to what they do at Anime Expo) could be a good idea. After every year the editors always seem to agree that one or two videos got screwed (mainly because editors have much different things they look for than judges or the audience), and it'd be nice for us to honor one of our own that we felt deserving. A small set of unique ballots, a rule that you can't vote for your own video, and an extra 5 minutes to tabulate the votes would be all that's needed.
-I didn't even bother going to Overflow, and I assume I'm not the only one given the 2:15AM time slot that apparently almost didn't even make it to the schedule. ProgOps needs to stop dicking around and give Overflow a decent time slot.
So, the contest has been over for a week now, let's talk about it. My review of the contest (followed by my suggestions for next year) is below - all opinions are my own, I am incredibly cynical and really don't care if anyone is offended by my opinion, blah blah blah, etc.
The Set-Up
Positive: A successful return to Main Events for the Friday night screening with no technical glitches to be seen.
Negative: Spotty attendance on Friday night due to the Cherry Blossom Ball, a 10AM screening on Saturday morning might have been a little early (especially with really nothing going on in Main Events over the course of the con save for AMVs and the Masq).
Tech Comments: Vids seemed a little oversaturated when it came to color, my bet is the projectors?
My take: Friday's attendance is c'est-la-vie, as there will always be something big happening on Friday night - Saturday's screening should have started at 11 or so.
Drama
Review: Certainly not the strongest that the category has been at AB - few videos really stood out in a positive way, but nothing was so bad that it deserved being noted as such. The strongest videos in the category had to have been jade-eyed-angel's "Satellite" (Chrono Crusade to "On My Shoulder" by Westlife) and Skyebox's "Learning to Fly" (the Kiki's Delivery Service vid). Actually, that's a misnomer - the best video in the category was Guyv's "Don't Get Lost in Heaven", and my disappointment in the category's winner (one of 3 IMHO unremarkable FFVII:AC vids that somehow made it to the big show) was eclipsed only by my disappointment that Guyv didn't make it onto the ballot, which might just have been the tragedy of the contest. Check out his video - it's one of the best Drama vids to have been released in the last year, hands-down.
Disturbing Trends: Yes, we know that Chrono and Rosette die at the end of the anime. Stop ending your videos with the death scene, it cheapens what I consider to be one of the best anime endings in recent memory.
Pleasant Surprises: "Learning to Fly" has caused me get Kelly Clarkson's "Breakaway" stuck in my head. Great Ghibli vid and one for the collection. Incidentally, the song played over the loudspeaker system when I arrived at Logan Airport on Sunday morning. Bizarre.
Fun/Upbeat/Other
One of the two strongest categories in the contest - not a single video didn't deserve to be in there. Three great trailers and three great music vids, all of which were immensely enjoyable.
Disturbing Trends: After hearing reaction to Al's "Something Wicked This Way Comes" I am shocked and appalled at how many people haven't seen Totoro. Seriously.
Pleasant Surprises: "The Distance to Nagasaki" taking second place (winning due to the Best in Show rollover). Great concept, great execution, and I was surprised that the award didn't go to one of the FMA trailers - perhaps the fangirls split the vote?
Romance
The other strong category in the contest - Again, not a video that didn't deserve to be there, and I'm proud to have gotten my ass kicked by "All Along." I'm normally incredibly critical of multi-anime vids using popular songs as I consider it to be the easiest form of playing to the audience, but this was a perfectly-executed vid and deserves all the recognition it gets. Glad to see the category hit its peak, I hope it stays there for a while to come.
Disturbing Trends: None that I can really come up with. Maybe it's a little disturbing that submitters are doing a much better job of branching out w/ different source footage, as it's something I hope for yearly.
Pleasant Surprises: I'd viewed "We Lived to Love" before the contest (whee scoping out competition!) and noticed that the XviD version of the video was incredibly overfiltered. The slight color oversaturation that I mentioned earlier actually made the video look a whole lot better on the big screen than it did on my monitor. Who'd have thunk it?
Action
This was dominated by Songbird21's and Bashar's vid and nobody can deny otherwise. Everything else ran from "meh" to "decent." Wendy and Justin clearly put the most work into their videos and it showed.
Disturbing Trends: Dear Cthulhu make the mediocre Advent Children videos stop. The same scenes keep showing up, and nobody's doing anything different with them.
Pleasant Surprises: The Saint Seiya video was a welcome jaunt into the realm of older anime - I commend the editor for branching out and not defaulting to what's new and hot.
Comedy
Warning: this is going to be my harshest category statement, and if you do not agree with it then you obviously didn't see the contest screening and should promptly cease whatever "Dan, you're *so mean*!" rant you have envisioned. I know that I have a reputation for being the Resident Asshole (a role I embrace like it was kin, for I don't take myself nearly as seriously as most people who don't know me well enough). That said, I believe everything I'm about to say with utmost certainty; I know that other editors (and most attendees) agree with me in private but I'm the only one (or at least, the first) who will come out to say it in public. I see this as a necessary public service, much in the way that medieval warlords would impale the heads of their enemies onto spikes as a warning to others. I offer no sympathy to those who I am about to implicate - you dug your own grave this time around, and while I will speak in somewhat general terms I am more than willing to name names as if I were Walt Disney and the forumites were Joe McCarthy.
If your first name is not Lyndsey or Alberto, and you submitted to Comedy? You should be ashamed of yourself.
Aside from those two videos (both of which deserved their trophies, by all means), only one video in the category could possibly have approached redeemable if the editor had followed offered advice by many others. Poorly encoded footage, hardcoded subtitles, jokes that go on for about a minute after they stop being funny, 4-minute setups for jokes that weren't even funny in the first place, and jokes that were funny 2 years ago when they were told in 10 seconds during AMV Hell 3 by editors who knew how to deliver a punchline and pull out before it got stale. That's about as detailed as I can get without forcing myself to start naming videos (and editors) and going down the line, shattering dreams and collecting skulls for my ever-growing throne. Absolutely horrid. I think I know what Simon Cowell feels like during American Idol auditions.
Disturbing Trends: Only 6 submissions? Comedy is the hardest category to edit for, but my god - give me a day and my AIM buddy list and I could strongarm more submissions out of editors I know than that. I hope this isn't indicative of how the Comedy scene will be for the rest of the year as the impact of AMV Hell slowly starts to fade - I've heard Tekkoshokon had a similar problem, so who knows. Additionally, the editors of the four non-funny vids seem to have forgotten the necessity of peer review when editing for Comedy, as it's pretty obvious that prior to submission, none of them showed their videos to anyone with the intent to figure out whether or not the concepts were actually funny. When you are going to show your video to a wide audience, having someone (or many people) beta your video is not merely a suggestion, but a necessity.
Pleasant Surprises: That Al was the only editor to use something as timely as the Mooninite incident was quite shocking, but I'm certainly glad that he was not only the one one to do it, but he did a damned good job of it.
Comments on the Contest Overall
-What's up with the excessive use of dub audio? Not only should this be against the rules (it is in every other AMV contest I know and has to do with plausible deniability re: copyright infringement on the English dub), but it's a plain bad idea to begin with. If your story is so weak that it requires dub audio to prove a point, then you need to rethink your concept. Also, some people failed at audio mixing.
-Aspect Ratios - it seems like a few videos had incorrect aspect ratios, but that could just have been me. In either case, check before you edit!
-Hooray for editor representation - 8 out of 9 trophies were picked up at the con, which I believe is a record. Additionally there were around a dozen editors at the dinner on Thursday and plenty more at the con - we've come a long way from that first AMV Editor gathering in the tiny club room at AB '03.
My thoughts on improving next year:
-AB is less than 11 months from now, and as the con moves earlier and earlier in the calendar it falls out of sync with the schedule that non-attending editors edit by. This means that you'll get fewer and fewer entries from editors who aren't editing specifically for AB, which means there will be a drop in overall quality (because AB is still a Regional Con, a con that draws editors from a large region, instead of an Editor Con that draws editors from *everywhere* like ACen, AWA, etc). To prevent this the contest needs to be finalized and promoted early and often - at the very least 6 months previous to the con, with a thread on the 'Org bumped regularly to garner attention. The deadline needs to be as close to the con as possible (V-Day weekend, perhaps?), as well.
-Add a "no dub audio" rule to bring AB in line w/ other major contests. This is a legal liability that needs to be addressed.
-Later screening on Saturday, please? 11AM isn't much to ask for!
-At this point, there's enough editors submitting (and attending) AB that an Editor's Choice award (akin to what they do at Anime Expo) could be a good idea. After every year the editors always seem to agree that one or two videos got screwed (mainly because editors have much different things they look for than judges or the audience), and it'd be nice for us to honor one of our own that we felt deserving. A small set of unique ballots, a rule that you can't vote for your own video, and an extra 5 minutes to tabulate the votes would be all that's needed.
-I didn't even bother going to Overflow, and I assume I'm not the only one given the 2:15AM time slot that apparently almost didn't even make it to the schedule. ProgOps needs to stop dicking around and give Overflow a decent time slot.