2011 VCA - Custom Category Ideas For Nomination

[Animated]

Best AMV Title.

The Sound

Faggot. Faggot!

[NS]

"The Sound" Is the best "Other" AMV I've ever seen.

You read it here folks. And Todd is a damned genius.

[Rider4Z]

alright i got one.

Best Mesh
Videos where the anime(s) and song(s)/audio are so perfect a match they look like they were made for each other.

couple prime examples of what i'm talking about:





no idea if this would actually work as a category, but it is something i think about a lot when watching vids.

[Kireblue]

Best AMV Title.

I like this one. It would be cool to have an award for people (like myself) that actually put serious thought into the title of their AMV.

alright i got one.

Best Mesh
Videos where the anime(s) and song(s)/audio are so perfect a match they look like they were made for each other.

I think that a better name for this category would simply be "best song / anime combination"

I also like the idea for a "Highest Replay value" category.
This wouldn't necessarily be the best video that you saw last year. It would be the video that you re-watched the most and replayed (not including videos that you only watched because you had to for various reasons: i.e. beta testing, contest screening, forced to watch, or simply couldn't avoid watching)

And lastly, I feel that we should keep the best storytelling category and permanently add one new category every single year from now on. So we could keep the "best storytelling" category from last year, and use this thread to add in one new category this year. If you did away with the Best Storytelling category, you will have a lot of angry ReggieSmalls supporters that already made their promotional posters

[Kionon]

alright i got one.

Best Mesh
Videos where the anime(s) and song(s)/audio are so perfect a match they look like they were made for each other.

couple prime examples of what i'm talking about:





no idea if this would actually work as a category, but it is something i think about a lot when watching vids.

I was a betatester for Building Steam. I second this nomination just so I can vote for that video.

[Hagaren Viper]

And lastly, I feel that we should keep the best storytelling category and permanently add one new category every single year from now on. So we could keep the "best storytelling" category from last year, and use this thread to add in one new category this year. If you did away with the Best Storytelling category, you will have a lot of angry ReggieSmalls supporters that already made their promotional posters

I wouldn't mind this, but either way i think we should keep the Best Storytelling category, I think that was a good one.

Some categories I've been thinking about for a while would be something to the effect of Best Overused Source and Best Underused Source, the best AMV with a popular anime [Naruto, Bleach, DBZ etc] and best with an anime that isn't used as much [Yugioh, King of Bandit Jing, Alien Nine].

Figuring out what qualifies as underused might be a little tricky [For example, Yugioh has 2389 cataloged AMVs, but almost all of those are the downloaded footage, logo-in-the-corner type that dont even get announced], but I think it would be neat to give those more obscure anime their own spotlight, as well as seeing what I imagine would be the most original videos using those ever-so popular sources in the Overused category.

[ngsilver]

Best AMV Podcast

[MycathatesyouAMV]

- Best unoriginal AMV. An amv that fits the unoriginal category, but was the best edited of the non-original.
- Best short-amv. The best amv that was under 2 minutes maybe ?
- Best beat sync (How this one hasn't been done yet I have no idea)
- Best use of a single anime
- Best Nostalgic AMV

[Niotex]

Best Compositing.

[Snowcrash]

And lastly, I feel that we should keep the best storytelling category and permanently add one new category every single year from now on. So we could keep the "best storytelling" category from last year, and use this thread to add in one new category this year. If you did away with the Best Storytelling category, you will have a lot of angry ReggieSmalls supporters that already made their promotional posters

I support that, at least keeping the Best storytelling category.

Otherwise, Best original video, but difficult to do without filter (maybe with the "other" filter)
And Best use of live video.