Overview
The Anime Music Video (AMV) Contest is a chance for fans to showcases their creative talents in the form of music videos and is open to anyone who may wish to enter, both amateur and professional. The contest will be screened in front of a live audience at Anime Evolution where the winners of the contest will be announced.
So that the contest is as fair as possible and the categories are more suited for the entries received to fit into, up to six categories will be determined by the AMV coordinator after the submission deadline. Determination of the categories will be based on the ones suggested on the entry forms of all those submitting.
The winners will be comprised of the following:
Category Winners:
Up to six categories will be determined after the submission deadline and will be posted. This may include, but is not limited to: Romance, Sentimental, Dramatic, Action, Horror, Upbeat, Dance, Comedy, Parody, Trailer and Fun.
Grand Prize Winners:
Judges’ Best Overall Video
Audience’s Best Overall Video
AMV Coordinator’s Choice:
Deserving video that has not won any of the above awards as chosen by the AMV Contest Coordinator.
Other awards may exist if so sponsored.
All the category awards will be chosen by a panel of judges as determined by the Anime Music Video Coordinator. The two grand prize winners will be chosen by the judges (Judges’ Best Overall Video) and by the audience at the screening event (Audience’s Best Overall Video) by Ballot during the contest finalist showing.
Due to the large amount of entries we receive, all videos will be pre-screened by a panel of judges before the convention. However, we will make every effort to show all accepted entries at the convention’s AMV room regardless.
All entries must meet all the general and submission rules as state below. Entries must be received (be in our hands) by Friday, June 25, 2010. It is desirable to have all entries uploaded via the Contest FTP site, but Entries may also be mailed via the regular postal system to the following address:
Anime Evolution 2010 AMV Contest
c/o Vlad G Pohnert
1708 – 81 Street
Edmonton, Alberta
Canada T6K 2E8
NO SUBMISSIONS WILL BE ACCEPTED AT THE CONVENTION.
Please take the time to read both the general and submission rules FULLY so that your entries are not disqualified for not meeting any of the requirements. You do not have to be present at the event to enter. If you have any questions or concerns about any of the rules or the contest itself, e-mail us at amvcontest@animeevolution.com
General Rules
1) Video must be a minimum length of 30 seconds and no longer then 6 minutes (including any titles or opening/closing sequences) to qualify. Videos over 6 minutes may be accepted at the AMV Contest Coordinator’s discretion.
2) A maximum of 2 videos entries will be accepted from one individual or submission as a group.
3) All video entries must be accompanied by a completed submission form in text format (uploaded via the FTP site or on disc being submitted).
4) Videos must use at least 60% of anime content. Anime content is defined as any animated TV, OVA or movie originally produced and created in Japan. This includes the use of anime computer-generated animation in TV, OVAs, movies and anime related video games. The other 40% may be any combination of anime/animation, live action, original computer animation or special effects.
5) Videos made to songs, music or trailer audio will be accepted provided they meet all other rule requirements.
6) Videos that use footage with subtitles from fan-subtitled anime will not be accepted. Intentional self created subtitles and any other text incorporated into the video is fine.
7) No watermarks in the video will be allowed (this includes the DiviX, television station log/bugs, logo, etc).
8) Since the finalists will be shown to a public audience at the event, all videos should be rated for general viewing and hence not portray explicit nudity and/or excessive graphic violence or foul language.
9) Bumpers and Credits will be allowed into the contest PROVIDED they appear at the end of the video and are not overlaid over any part of the video. Since the pre-judging is blind, they will be removed for the judge’s tape but will be left in for the actual showing of the contest.
10) Previously released videos (as shown publicly at conventions/clubs or for download on the internet) must have been premiered after January 1st, 2010 to qualify. The only exception being a video that has not premiered publicly as defined in the above may, at the discretion of the AMV Contest Coordinator, may qualify.
11) Anime Evolution reserves the right to use any entry for display and promotional purposes. All videos entered will be considered to be cleared for this purpose.
12) All decisions or ramifications of any of the contest rules as made at the discretion of the AMV Contest coordinator or Anime Evolution are final. All judging methods and decisions are final.
13) Anime Evolution reserves the right to make changes to these rules at anytime. The rules as published on Anime Evolution’s website are considered the official rules.
Submission
All videos will be compiled digitally and converted into the Mpeg 2 format and played digitally at the contest on a big screen so send us a copy of your video in the best possible quality.
Acceptable formats:
All videos are required to be in at least a resolution of 640 x 480 and a frame rate of 23.97 or better. Audio shall be in dual channel with a sampling rate of no lower then 44,100 Hz.
The following formats are acceptable:
| avi: |
Uncompressed, HuffyUV, Lagarith, DiviX/Xvid (no beta version) or DV |
| mkv: |
Matroska container is acceptable with codecs as listed for AVI |
| mpg: |
Mpeg 2 |
| mp4: |
Mpeg 4 |
| wmv: |
Accepted PROVIDED the video is encoded in an acceptable bit rate and resolution size at the discretion of the AMV Contest Coordinators. |
If you have problems sending your entry in any of the above formats, please contact us and we will try to come up with something that will work for both you and us.
Mail in Entries:
Using accepted codecs as listed above recorded on CD-R / DVD+R / DVD-R media. Copy the files onto the disc directly (as raw data). Please do not send us an authored DVD of your videos. Make sure to label your disc with your submission name and the title of the AMVs.
FTP uploads:
Videos may also be uploaded to the contest FTP site in an acceptable codec as listed below to the following Site:
To upload your entry(s), follow the instructions listed below:
1) E-mail amvcontest@animeevolution.com with the subject “Anime Evolution AMV Contest Upload Request”.
2) Include in the e-mail a text version of the filled out Entry form (Placing all the same information as on the form into a text file is acceptable). Make sure to label your video files with your submission name and title of the Video.
3) An e-mail will be sent back to you with site, user and password instructions for you to upload your entry(s) to.
Submission form can be downloaded here: AMV Contest Submission Form
