2010 AMV Competition
Contest Rules
LENGTH
Minimum of thirty seconds. Maximum length of six minutes.
RESOLUTION
Entries will be screened at 720 x 480 on a projector. Please use the closest possible resolution to ensure that your entry looks its best when projected. Recommended minimum resolution is 640 x 480.
CATEGORIES
AMV's can be entered in the following categories:
ACTION / ADVERNTURE
COMEDY / PARODY
DRAMA / ROMANCE
HORROR / SUSPENSE
BEST IN SHOW (to be determined by AMV judges)
AMV's will be judged on the following criteria:
Editing, Originality (For the love God, please no Linkin' Park), Timing, Content, and Quality.
NUMBER OF ENTRIES PER PERSON
Only one entry per category please.
ACCEPTED FORMATS
Playable DVDs or digital files like Quicktime, avi, or mpg2. If you are submitting a playable DVD, please remember to finalize the DVD. We do not accept Flash/Shockwave files at this time.
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CONTENT OF SUBMISSIONS
• No station logos, station adverts, or other station-generated overlays. i.e. Cartoon Network graphics. No captions or sub-titles, save for those that are generated by the submitter.
• Please keep the AMV content rating PG since this will be an all-ages screening. No hentai, highly suggestive themes or graphic violent scenes.
• If your AMV shows spoilers, such as key plot points or the death of a major character, please give a five second spoiler warning before your AMV begins.
• Source material can be from Anime, cartoon, or video game or machinima.
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INFORMATION ABOUT YOUR ENTRY
Please include the following information and send it to us with your submission:
* The real name(s) of whoever made the video. If the video was a collaborative effort, please acknowledge all those who assisted you.
* Any "alias" you wish us to refer to you by
* Your email address
* Any "name" you may have given your music video
* The anime(s) used for footage
* The name of your musical selection
* The performer/composer of your musical selection
Additionally, for digital media
* The format and codec used, if submitting a digital media file.
* What part of a multi part disc set this is (if applicable) (Part X of Y).
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METHODS FOR SUBMITTING
Please send your videos to:
MechaCon Anime Music Video Contest
c/o Sennin Productions, LLC
P. O. Box 60873
Lafayette, LA 70596
Please Do Not send your submission "Signature Required" or "Registered Mail."
Just send it like any other regular mail. We can accept entries on CD or DVD. No tapes please.
UPLOADING YOUR SUBMISSION
If you would rather upload your submission to the FTP server, please send an email to
amv@mechacon.net to request the login information. We will also take entries uploaded to file-sharing sites. Based upon reader’s suggestions, Lifehacker.com recommends the following sites:
http://drop.io/
http://www.mediafire.com/
http://www.dropbox.com/
http://rapidshare.com/
http://www.megaupload.com
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DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSIONS
All entries must be postmarked by
June 15, 2010 to be eligible for inclusion in the event. Submissions made online via the FTP server must be uploaded by midnight on June 1st as well. We will make every effort to include videos requiring re-encoding past this point, but we cannot guarantee its inclusion if received after this date.
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DIGITAL FILE SUMBMISSION
If a file is too large to fit on a single media disc (such as a 1 gigabyte AVI file on 650 megabyte CDs), please use a ZIP (WinZip) or RAR (Rarsoft) utility to break the file into manageable parts and burn those to the media, clearly labeling each of them as part of a set (3 of 7 or XXX of YYY). You may combine multiple files onto a single media if there is room. For every video file submitted, please include a text file with the same name (but different extension...use txt) with the contact and video information listed above. Please do not include extra files on the media that do not pertain to the contest.
