[kireblue]

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Hello everyone. My name is Erik Norelus {kireblue}, and I am the assistant director of Momocon's AMV department. Momocon (http://www.momocon.com/) is an annual anime/ comic/ sci-fi/ gaming convention convention held in Atlanta, Georgia and is currently celebrating its 8th year in operation. We will also be holding our 3rd Annual AMV Exhibition with the purpose of showcasing brand new AMVs to Momocon's 11,000+ attendees and streaming them LIVE via http://www.ustream.tv/channel/amvs-momocon on Saturday, March 17th from 3-5pm. And this year, we will be partnering with Seishun-Con (http://seishun-con.com/) in order to give the submitted AMVs a chance to win awards during their AMV contest in June. The general rules and guidelines are as follows:

Rules and Guidelines

1)The purpose of MomoCon's exhibition is to give AMV editors old and new a chance to showcase their latest Anime Music Videos in a competition free environment, and have them streamed LIVE via http://www.ustream.tv/channel/amvs-momocon. As an extra challenge, editors are encouraged to create an AMV that corresponds to the theme at Momocon that year. (This is completely optional though). This year, the theme will be dinosaurs :dino: . The exhibition is not a contest, and there will be no awards or prizes given out at MomoCon. To make your video(s) eligible to win awards at Seishun-Con's AMV contest, you must select that option when you complete the online submission form.

2)The deadline for MomoCon's AMV exhibition is Sunday, March 4th, 2012.
The Deadline for Seishun-Con's AMV contest is Monday, June 4th, 2012.

3)All videos submitted must meet the following requirements:

*Must be at least 50% Japanese animation, Japanese video game cutscenes or anime-inspired stills
*Must be under 10 minutes in length
*Must be of reasonable video and audio quality
*Must not contain excessive violence or content that would place it above a PG13 rating.
*Must not contain water marks that are not inserted by the editor (no cartoon network or adult swim logos!)

5)At any time we reserve the right to not show a submitted AMV or disqualify it for any reason.


File Formats?

Momocon and Seishun-Con are able to accept AMVs in a wide variety of file types. Unlike many conventions, our video rooms have projectors connected to computers instead of DVD players. And because of this, we are able to play most video formats and even HD videos. So if you were looking for an event to send your HD AMVs, this is just the place. But even so, please do not upscale your videos. If your footage wasn't taken from a blu-ray or was already HD, up-scaling it to 720 or 1080p will negatively affect your video quality. The preferred file types are MP4, AVI and MPEG-2, but we also accept WMV, MKV and many more. We strongly discourage submitting QuickTime, Real Media and Flash Video though.


How to Submit?

This year, the preferred submission method is to complete the form on the following link: http://kireblue.wufoo.com/forms/amv-submission-form/
The form requires you to provide a download link of your video via a file uploading service like MegaUpload (http://www.megaupload.com/). If your AMV is available for download on http://www.animemusicvideos.org, you also have the option of instead providing a link to the video information page.

*A confirmation e-mail will be sent to you within 2-3 days.

If you would like to submit your AMV using a different method, please contact me via the org, or at kireblueV2@gmail.com


Specific Rules for Seishun-Con's AMV contest

*The Deadline for Seishun-Con's AMV contest is Monday, June 4th, 2012.

*Entrants are are only allowed to submit one video to a category. Also, entrants are only allowed to submit to two of the five categories, and a single video can not be submitted to more than one category.

Categories
The AMV contest is split into five categories. Entrants are allowed to select the best fit category for each of their submissions, but if our judges strongly disagree with the genre of a submitted video, it may be moved to a better fitting category. The 5 categories are as follows:

Action
Comedy
Fun / Upbeat
Drama / Serious
Romance / Sentimental


More info?
To find out more info about either MomoCon or Seishun-Con, please use the following links.

MomoCon: http://www.momocon.com/
Seishun-Con: http://www.seishun-con.com

If you have any questions or comments about the contest, please contact me via the org, or at kireblueV2@gmail.com

[AKALink]

seems legit

[kireblue]

seems legit

yeah, its legit. Last year, we received almost 100 different videos between the 2 events, and the list of winners from the contest are as follows:

Best Action: "Ringleader" by Hagaren Viper

Best Comedy: "AMV Potpourri" by Doomimus

Best Fun/ Upbeat: "Son of Man" by RiderG

Best Drama/ Serious: "Jus Talionis" by Kitty-Galia

Best Romance/ Sentimental: "Love Deserves" by CodeZTM

Judges Choice: "Dead Moon Masquerade" by pink haze

[thedarkmessenger]

why do you only log in just to advertise amv contests? Why not actually join in on some of our wonderful conversations?

On topic: I'll submit an amv if I can come up with something good. I may even enter my first (and so far only) amv if I decide it's good enough.

[kireblue]

why do you only log in just to advertise amv contests? Why not actually join in on some of our wonderful conversations?

On topic: I'll submit an amv if I can come up with something good. I may even enter my first (and so far only) amv if I decide it's good enough.

I log in all the time actually. I just don't visit the forums very often. I mostly just upload the AMVs that I make to the "video directory", occasionally mention them in the "other videos" thread, and discuss my AMV Hell mini's entries in the private thread.

But anyway, I look forward to your submission :) Even if you feel that you don't have a good enough amv to win the contest, you can choose to just enter it into the exhibition and watch our LIVE broadcast of it in March.

[kireblue]

Hey everybody. Just wanted to provide a update on the time of the exhibition.

It will be taking place on Saturday, March 17th from 3-5pm. So if you can't make it to MomoCon, feel free to watch your submitted videos streamed live here: http://www.ustream.tv/channel/amvs-momocon

[thedarkmessenger]

I'll definitely submit to the exhibition. I'll see if I can come up with something good for the contest, as well.

[kireblue]

Awesome. As of right now, there is about a week left till the exhibition deadline (March 4th, 2012).

[thedarkmessenger]

question: do I have to be present at the con for the contest to receive a prize? (assuming I even win, of course :P) Also, can I submit a different video for the exhibition and the contest?

[kireblue]

Awesome. As of right now, there is about a week left till the exhibition deadline (March 4th, 2012).
In terms of the Exhibition, there won't be any prizes. Its purpose is to showcase AMVs to MomoCon's attendees, and give you the opportunity to see their reaction via the LIVE stream.

But in terms of the contest at Seishun-Con, it won't be streamed LIVE, but you will have the opportunity to get prizes if your video wins. If you aren't present at the convention, the prizes will be shipped to you immediately afterwards.

Lastly, If you are submitting a video to the exhibition, you have the opportunity to also send it to the contest. But if you have a video that you would like to enter into just the contest and not the exhibition, you will have to wait till after MomoCon (March 16-18). I will have a new submission form uploaded by then.

[thedarkmessenger]

thanks. I think I'll submit the one AMV I already made for the exhibition and make another for the contest.

[mattroks101]

I remember this from last year. Shame I still don't have anything.

[kireblue]

Only 3 days left everybody.

[kireblue]

Just a reminder everybody. MomoCon's 3rd Annual LIVE AMV Exhibition will be broadcasted TODAY (Saturday) from 3pm-5pm EST.
You can watch it here http://www.ustream.tv/channel/amvs-momocon

Also, if you wanna watch the AnimeMusicVideos.org VCAs broadcasted LIVE from MomoCon as well, you can watch it with the same link TOMORROW (Sunday) from 3pm - 5pm EST.

[LawRayLiet]

ha stream quality is kinda bad, but I suppose it's better then none.

[thedarkmessenger]

argh! I can't believe I forgot about this! >_>