Otakon 2008: All Submissions Received. What now?

Parodic Productions · Post by **Parodic Productions** » Mon Jun 23, 2008 12:38 pm

L.Fist wrote:The anticipation... How do you guys deal with this?

Fear, anxiety, insomnia, frustration, and a desire to raid the fridge (more or less).

...fear and anxiety are the same thing, aren't they? Eh

SecondChild · Post by **SecondChild** » Mon Jun 23, 2008 1:39 pm

Parodic Productions wrote:
L.Fist wrote:The anticipation... How do you guys deal with this?
Fear, anxiety, insomnia, frustration, and a desire to raid the fridge (more or less).

...fear and anxiety are the same thing, aren't they? Eh

So nervous... I feel ill. LOL. I don't expect to win, but I'm so hoping to be amongst the finalists!

dragonsong12 · Post by **dragonsong12** » Mon Jun 23, 2008 2:41 pm

dwchang wrote:Most just vote for whatever, regardless of the category. Most *do not* go "oh that video isn't appropriate for the category even though I liked it so I won't vote for it." They just vote for whatever they liked, even if it's not appropriate (i.e. a comedy in drama, upbeat in romance, etc.).
I can't blame them since audiences are fickle, but it's still not appropriate and proper pre-screening can sometimes remedy this.

Agreed. (tangent) That's the thing I really dislike about audience voting for contests. For every person who critically rates the work and chooses which is best, there's three other people who pick whichever one is to the anime they like best, or to a song they love. It's not something you can help, unfortunately. And I understand wanting to get in the "audience participation" aspect too.

Back on topic, however, I'm completely with you. If they could streamline everything in the prescreenings, it won't be (as much of) an issue. At least he pointed out that they will be some consideration for such things, and they won't just blindly follow the forms. After eight hours though...even split up, that's a lot. *Cheers the pre-screeners on*

SecondChild wrote: So nervous... I feel ill. LOL. I don't expect to win, but I'm so hoping to be amongst the finalists!

Amen to that! As far as I'm concerned making the contest = winning. Anything beyond that is icing...extremely rare and hard to find icing.

wurpess · Post by **wurpess** » Mon Jun 23, 2008 3:01 pm

SecondChild wrote:
Parodic Productions wrote:
L.Fist wrote:The anticipation... How do you guys deal with this?
Fear, anxiety, insomnia, frustration, and a desire to raid the fridge (more or less).

...fear and anxiety are the same thing, aren't they? Eh
So nervous... I feel ill. LOL. I don't expect to win, but I'm so hoping to be amongst the finalists!

x2 Though I really doubt it. I was kind of rushed, so my vid kinda wound up really sucking.

Adv1sor · Post by **Adv1sor** » Mon Jun 23, 2008 7:26 pm

dragonsong12 wrote:As far as I'm concerned making the contest = winning. Anything beyond that is icing...extremely rare and hard to find icing.

Well said.

May I add that just to be one of those 135 is rather a cool thing unto itself

Good luck to us all. I know we'll have a great show this year.

Ryvannis · Post by **Ryvannis** » Tue Jun 24, 2008 6:02 am

Argh I don't feel like I'll make it through.
Off beat scenes, too many white dissolves, argh...

Quick question, how does ranking with the public work exactly?
Good luck to everyone though.

HurQlez03 · Post by **HurQlez03** » Tue Jun 24, 2008 11:54 am

Awesome! Only 6 trailer were entered in the contest. I got a better chance of being a finalist than if I sent my drama AMV.

NightMistress85 · Post by **NightMistress85** » Tue Jun 24, 2008 12:48 pm

L.Fist wrote:The anticipation... How do you guys deal with this?

Not well if that's sufficient enough

. Nerves and nausea rolled into one! That's not quite as many as I was thinking though. But I enjoyed making my vid so that's most important.

135 of us really worked our tails off.

Kazemon15 · Post by **Kazemon15** » Tue Jun 24, 2008 12:54 pm

I'm getting 2nd doubts. I keep thinking I sent it in not enough high quality.

Good luck to everyone!

dragonsong12 · Post by **dragonsong12** » Tue Jun 24, 2008 1:39 pm

Ryvannis wrote:Argh I don't feel like I'll make it through.
Off beat scenes, too many white dissolves, argh...

Kazemon15 wrote:I'm getting 2nd doubts. I keep thinking I sent it in not enough high quality.

Haha, yeah that sums it up! I can't even watch the one I made right now. "D'oh! Should've timed that better! Gah! Should've used a different clip! It's no good, it's all horrible!" Hindsight's such a wonderful thing...*sigh*

...is it bad, though, that part of me is really glad I'm not the only one that thinks these things?

NightMistress85 wrote:But I enjoyed making my vid so that's most important. 135 of us really worked out tails off.

*HIGH FIVES!*