General Information
AMV entries will be screened at the Otakuthon AMV Contest Screening during the weekend of Otakuthon. The AMV Contest screening will consist of two hours worth of the best videos submitted for the contest. During the screening, the audience will vote for their favourite AMV through secret ballot in the following categories: Comedy/Parody, Action, Drama/Romance and Originality. The audience will also vote for the "People's Choice" award for best AMV. If you are participating in the contest voting, please stay for the duration of the screening to give all AMVs a fair chance in the voting.
All AMVs submitted will also be automatically entered into the "Best of Show" category for best overall AMV, as well as the "Best Visual Effects/Video Editing" category. The winners of these two categories will be selected by a panel of AMV Contest judges prior to the convention.
Due to time constraints, not all AMVs will be shown during the contest screening.
Participants may enter a maximum of two video entries total (one entry per category).
Deadline: July 10, 2022 at 11:59 PM
Content Guidelines
Video Content
- Videos may not be shorter than 1 minute and should not be longer than 5 minutes.
- The majority of the video footage must be from anime (Japanese animation) or from Japanese video games (e.g. Final Fantasy XV).
- Live action or other sorts of animation footage are acceptable provided that they are not a dominant part of the video.
- Do not include any video opening or closing credits. Otakuthon will be adding an opening credit to all entered AMVs containing the title of the music video, creator's name, source of video footage, voting category, and the music title.
- There should be no subtitles in the AMV unless it is an important element of the music video or if they are karaoke song lyrics. AMVs that breach this rule will be automatically rejected.
- There should be no watermarks or text credits (such as the credits for openings) of any kind within the AMV. AMVs that breach this rule will be automatically rejected.
- Any AMV that contains hentai, full frontal nudity, explicit sexuality or other pornographic material, as well as extreme or excessive violence and gore will not be accepted for the AMV Contest. Scenes with graphic violence and/or sexuality, eroticism, ecchi, and horror are permitted.
- Music must be used as the main soundtrack and may be from any genre and in any language.
- Coarse language, including music lyrics, within the AMVs must be acceptable of what can be heard on public radio, prime time television, or any film that is rated 13+.
Anime Music Videos (AMVs) submitted for competition must be your OWN work and must be an ORIGINAL work. You may NOT submit an AMV on another person's behalf.
We will be accepting submissions via e-mail only. Please send all contest submissions to amvcontest@otakuthon.com.
All AMVs for the contest must be submitted by July 10, 2022 before 11:59 PM. If your AMV is submitted after this date, it will not be considered for the contest.
AMVs which are submitted can be entered into one of the following five categories:
- Comedy/Parody
- Action
- Drama/Romance
- Originality
- Editing
- Your name
- E-mail address and other contact info
- Title of your music video
- The category in which you would like the AMV entered (select one, see the list above)
- Source of video footage used (i.e. series, movies, etc.)
- Source of music or audio soundtrack used
- A link to download your AMV
All AMV entries will be automatically entered into the "People's Choice", "Best of Show", and "Best Visual Effects/Video Editing" categories.
To facilitate the judging process, please name your video file the same as your AMV title. Creators may submit their videos with their submission by:
- Providing a link from Google Drive/Onedrive/DropBox or on any Cloud services.
- Providing a link to the AMV on AnimeMusicVideos.org.
- Don't send YouTube or similar video streaming site links.
- Don't send AMVs which you did not create.
- Don't send links from Megaupload, Depositfile or any similar website.
Please note the following guidelines with respect to video format:
- All videos must be playable on a PC with the latest K-Lite Codec Pack installed.
- Files for competition should be AVI, MPG, WMV, MKV or MP4 format.
- DO NOT send videos in RealPlayer or QuickTime format.
- The minimal video resolution should be 1280x720 for widescreen, 960x720 for fullscreen.
- Videos with poor video quality (ex: pixelated, artifacting, etc.) will be rejected.
Each category winner will receive an award in the form of a certificate via mail. All winners will be announced on AnimeMusicVideos.org forums and the Otakuthon official Facebook page. Winners will be contacted via email to provide us with a mailing address so that the award can be shipped to you.
Note
- Otakuthon reserves the right to use any submitted AMVs, in whole or in part, for promotional purposes during and after the convention.
- Otakuthon does not guarantee that any AMV submitted will be screened. The convention reserves the right whether or not to screen an AMV for any reason.
