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PersaCon Anime Music Video Contest is an exhibition and competition of fan-created music videos with an anime theme. Videos will be submitted from across the globe and narrowed down to a group of finalists. Those finalist videos will be screened before an audience at PersaCon. The audience will vote for their favorite videos and the winners will be presented during the PersaCon AMV Viewers Choice Awards.
Persacon 2008 AMV Competition *Quick Rules*
The following is a very quick sketch up of the rules, it is sugested the you read all of the rule but the following is just are the major points.
Videos submitted will be judged in a
preliminary round before the competition.
Video showcase and
voting will take place on Saturday night.
Awards and winners will
be announced later Saturday night.
Rules:
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All videos must be submitted by
June 1st.
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Videos must have content within a
G to PG-13 rating.
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All videos will be pre-screened
for content - any that have content too explicit may be disqualified
from the competition.
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Prejudging will happen in the
weeks before the convention - videos that move on to the next round
will be listed on the website and shown at the AMV showcase.
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Video should be at least 720x480
pixels in size with one of the following extensions (.AVI, .MOV,
.MP4, .MPEG, or .WMA )
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During the AMV showcase, videos
will be voted on by con-goers and winners announced Saturday night.
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Videos must be submitted with
entry
form
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Categories:
Action
Comedy
Romance
Drama
Horror
J-Rock
Best
in Show
There will also be awards given out in the following catagorys. (NOTE you do not enter this catagory as the AMVs are chosen by the staff from all AMVs submitted.)
Best Editing
Best Concept
Editor's Choice
Have a question as it here. ASK THE AMV DIRECTOR
Complete Rules *Not So Quick*
PersaCon has created the following rules in order to present the best possible anime music video screening at PersaCon. If you have any questions about these rules, please check the forum before you contact the AMV Contest Manager.
Video Content contact the AMV Contest Manager contact the AMV Contest Manager
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Content
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Your entry must be your own work and no one else's. Anonymous submissions cannot be accepted.
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The PersaCon AMV Contest is rated PG-13. As such, all entries will be expected to follow the official MPAA ratings guidelines (http://www.mpaa.org/FlmRat_Ratings.asp) which define PG-13 as follows:
PG-13 is thus a sterner warning to parents, particularly when deciding which movies are not suitable for younger children. Parents, by the rating, are alerted to be very careful about the attendance of their under-teenage children. A PG-13 film is one which, in the view of the Rating Board, leaps beyond the boundaries of the PG rating in theme, violence, nudity, sensuality, language, or other contents, but does not quite fit within the restricted R category. Any drug use content will initially require at least a PG-13 rating. In effect, the PG-13 cautions parents with more stringency than usual to give special attention to this film before they allow their 12-year-olds and younger to attend. If nudity is sexually oriented, the film will generally not be found in the PG-13 category. If violence is too rough or persistent, the film goes into the R (restricted) rating. A film's single use of one of the harsher sexually derived words, though only as an expletive, shall initially require the Rating Board to issue that film at least a PG-13 rating. More than one such expletive must lead the Rating Board to issue a film an R rating, as must even one of these words used in a sexual context. These films can be rated less severely, however, if by a special vote, the Rating Board feels that a lesser rating would more responsibly reflect the opinion of American parents.
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You may not use subtitled footage from fan-subtitled or commercial tapes. However, you are free to add your own subtitles where appropriate. Be warned, many people find subtitled text distracting and it may dramatically lower your chances of making it to the finals.
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You may not have a watermark in your video. (That’s the little emblem in the corner of video, often found on footage taped from TV or on fansubs.)
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Length of Entries
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At least 75% of each entry must be set to music.
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At least 75% of each entry must contain anime-oriented footage.
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Entries must not be shorter than 30 seconds or longer than 6 minutes in length.
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DO NOT include any title screens, logos, credits, or introductions before and/or after the actual video. All title screens, logos, credits, or introductions before and/or after the actual video will be cut from the screening and replaced with PersaCon's standard title screen.
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Freshness
Video Submission
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Submission Deadline
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The deadline for all submissions is June 1, 2008. All entries MUST be in our hands by that date due to the fact that we will have less than a month to process them all and have them ready for convention.
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Late entries are ineligible for the contest, but may still be shown during a non-competition (overflow) AMV screening if they are received in time and if scheduling permits.
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Format of Submissions
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Number of Submissions
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You may submitt one entry per catagory. (Best in Show is not a catigory.)
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If you worked with someone else in the creation of a video, that video counts as one entry for all people involved (although you only have to submit it once). For example, if you submit two videos that you created on your own and someone else submits a third video that you helped to create, that would count as a third entry from you and violate these rules.
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You may not submit videos under false names to circumvent our entry limit. Doing so will result in possible disqualification from this and all future PersaCon AMV contests.
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If you submit more than two entries, we will only view the first two entries.
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Categories
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On your submission form, you will be asked to choose your Category. The categories are as follows:
(descriptions courtesy of the AMV.ORG VCA awards, located at www.animemusicvideos.org)
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Romance - This video best employs both audio and visual aspects in order to create a romantic mood. The end result is a video that tugs at the heart strings and leaves feelings of happiness, sadness, or any others, but above all, a feeling of romance that the viewer experiences.
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Drama - Some videos are out there for the purposes of making you laugh, others are out there to give you an extra jolt of adrenaline, but there are also videos that will make you cry, or feel things you don't on an every day basis. Drama is an important part of what makes AMVs truly a form of art. This category is for videos that have captured a feeling or an emotion and conveyed it extremely well.
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Action - This video is adrenaline... excitement... suspense... This video is a roller-coaster ride. It might involve fighting, flying, playing tennis or anything you can think of - but if this video captivates you and gets your blood pumping then it is the best action video.
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Comedy - Comedy is possibly the most difficult genre to master. What is funny to one person may be just plain stupid to another. The Best Comedy award goes to the video that made the best jokes or comical situations. It's the video that made you laugh the most but it's also the video that made you laugh not just because of the song or anime used but of the clever way they are put together and presented.
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J-Rock - This category is for videos that is PersaCons Theme so make it good.
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Technical Categories (Judged Awards)
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Best Editing - A nice visual effect is something, but a nice integration is another thing. Editing matched to perfection with the flow of the video. Playing in accordance to the music, note by note, image by image, fusioned to the AMV with harmony and integrity, something that if misplaced or done incorrectly would have made the video forgettable, but because it was done with perfect accordance it became unforgettable? Then this AMV deserves the Best Editing award.
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Best Concept - The things that never happen, the story, that never exists, the point of view, that you've never met before. Something, that makes you imagine things. Alternative ways of thinking, imagining and creating. Alternative stories, relationships and concepts. An elusive something that makes a video different and stands out. Then this AMV deserves the Best Concept.
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Judge's Choice - Competition is by nature survival of the fittest. This award is for that special video that astonishes us with imagination and creativity that we want to recognize, that may end up being overlooked otherwise.
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PersaCon staff members must mark submission forms appropriately. Staff entries cannot compete in the contest, but may be shown during a non-competing portion of the AMV contest.
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The audience will be voting for "Best Romance", "Best Drama", "Best Action", "Best Comedy", "Best J-Rock", and "Best of Show" out of the entire field of finalist entries.
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During audience voting, only one video may win an award. If a video is selected to win 2 awards, (say Best Action and Best of Show) than the winning video will be awarded the higher award (Best in Show) and the runner up will be awarded the category award (Best Action).
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The AMV Contest Coordinator reserves the right to change a videos category if it is determined that the video more properly belongs in a different category than the one intended by the creator. In such an instance the creator will be contacted in advance.
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Submission Instructions
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To submit your anime music video, you must complete a copy of the entry form . To help speed up processing this year, DO NOT print the form out, but rather fill it out and submit it as a file (either on disc or via File Front transfer.)
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Pack up your CD or DVD and mail it to:
PersaCon
ATTN: Evan Helms - AMV Choice Awards
P.O. Box 1035
Madison, AL
35758
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If you are submitting electronically, please email the contest coordinator for submission instructions. Videos and forms may both be submitted electronically.
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Provided we can read your entry form, you will receive an email when your entry is received. Due to potentially high volume of entries near the submission deadline, this e-mail may be delayed. Please be patient.
Attending the Convention
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Awards Ceremony
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Audience Awards (Judged by Audience) consist of:
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Best Action
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Best Romance
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Best Drama
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Best Comedy
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Best Fun/Upbeat/Other
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Best of Show
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Technical Awards (Judged by Staff) consist of:
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Best Editing
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Best Concept
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Editor's Choice
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For the Audience Awards, the audience will be given a ballot with all the finalist entries in the contest listed, and be asked to choose which videos they think are the best in each respective category.
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Technical Awards. A select panel of 3-5 judges (comprised of experienced AMV creators and AB staff) will be convened to critique and analyze all finalist entries to the AMV competition. They will then vote to award trophies based on the Categories listed above.
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Anime Music Video Contest award winners will be announced and trophies presented on Saturday night. If you (or your proxy) are at the convention but miss the Masquerade, your award can be picked up on Sunday at registration. If you do not attend the convention, your award will be mailed to you sometime after the convention...when we get around to it.
Legal Stuff
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By submitting an entry, each contestant agrees: they have read, understand and will comply with these official rules; and, or to the extent permitted by law, consent to the use of the entrant's name, likeness and/or biographical data for purposes of advertising and promotion by PersaCon, without further consent, compensation or approval.
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Submitted materials become the property of PersaCon and will not be returned. By submitting a video to PersaCon, the video creator grants PersaCon non-revocable permission to exhibit that video. The video creator otherwise retains all rights and responsibilities relating to its creation.
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The prizes being awarded may constitute income under applicable federal, state and local tax laws and winners shall be solely responsible for payment of any and all taxes, which may be due with respect to the acceptance of the prize.
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We cannot be held responsible for lost or misdirected entries.
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Do not submit anyone's videos other than your own or your group. If you are caught fraudulently submitting videos, you will be forced to endure episodes of Sailor Moon (in English) until your head explodes. We mean it.
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No purchase necessary. Void where prohibited by law.
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We reserve the right to modify these rules at any time without notice.
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