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[GloryQuestor]

Here are the finalists for the KuroKiiro Festival III AMV Contest, in order of editor name, with the winning videos in bold typeface with award won:

"UPBEAT" (Action/Upbeat/Dance)

CodeZTM - Ka-CHING
David Blank - A Million Miles Per Hour
Drew Brisco - One Wild Night
Galia & Kitty - D-I-S-C-O Starburst   
Greatpein - BK201 The Black Reaper
l33tmeatwad - What the Hell
moonbunnychan - Ever Wanted
ProjectBarcodeError - Your Move
Shin - Safety Dance - BEST IN UPBEAT CATEGORY
Warlike Swans - Puella Royale

"DOWNBEAT" (Drama/Romance/Sentimental)

Amy Nault - Falling Angels
CodeZTM - Selfless Regret
Greatpein - Shattered Bonds - AUDIENCE BEST IN SHOW
Kui Xiao - The Wisdom of East
Kyssifur - Nina
Okami - Only Violence - BEST IN DOWNBEAT CATEGORY
Sam Santoro - Vanished Souls
Shin - Good Life
TritioAFB - Angeles y Demonios
Warlike Swans - Shining Shimmering Splendid

"OFFBEAT" (Comedy/Parody/Trailers & Commercials/Other)

Galia & Kitty - SuperS
Honou Productions - Chow Down!
l33tmeatwad - Requiem of the Endless Eight - CONTEST COORDINATOR'S CHOICE
moonbunnychan - Senshi in Winter
ProjectBarcodeError - Welcome to Fabulous Daten City
NoirDuck Productions - Busou Renkin UltraViolet Trailer
Shin - I'm a Kitty Cat  - BEST IN OFFBEAT CATEGORY
Zanzaben - Brand New Demon King

I'll see what I can do about getting awards out in the next week or two.

Congratulations to our winners

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Please see below the rules for the contest.

If you have any questions, please let me know.

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KuroKiiro Festival III (2011) Anime Music Video Contest

The following are the contractual rules for KuroKiiro Festival's Anime Music Video Contest. All videos submitted for the purpose of entry into the contest are subject to the following terms and conditions.

The AMV Contest awards this year are for the Top 3 Audience Favorites, Best in Show, and a separate award for the Contest Coordinator's choice.

If the overall submissions' play time is larger than can fit in the appropriate contest time slot, cuts will unfortunately be made. Keep in mind that video selection for the finals will be determined on qualities such as technical aspects, effectiveness of the video and general execution.  You do not need to attend the convention to enter the contest, although it is highly encouraged.

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AMV CONTEST GENERAL RULES
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- All videos must be received postmarked if sending by mail by November 10, 2011.  If using an FTP or electronic sharing site link, please e-mail your submission information, as required below.  The absolute deadline for all FTP submissions is November 15, 2011.

- As this is an anime music video contest, the majority (approximately 51% or more) of your video must contain Japanese anime or Japanese videogame-related media (that originated in Japan) and 80% of the music video must contain music or song.

- There is a time limit of 30 seconds minimum and 6 minutes maximum. Anything beyond 6 minutes may be acceptable at the Contest Coordinators' discretion only.

- You may submit a maximum of three videos.

- AMV Contest video entries must have been created after November 1, 2010.  Qualifying submissions that have won awards during the submission period up to the convention will be allowed to enter.  In order to provide freshness to the contest, videos that were previously submitted to past Tekkoshocon AMV contests are excluded from entry in the KuroKiiro Festival AMV contest.  Videos from the Sangawa Project AMV Contest may be entered into the KuroKiiro Festival contest, provided that the video qualifies under the content rules listed below.

- No watermarks in the video will be allowed. This includes the DivX logo, any television station bugs & logos, AMV studio logos, etc.

- No video will be accepted with "hard subtitles" (subtitles permanently overlaid on video), nor will we accept videos from bootleg or fansub releases with these subtitles. The only EXCEPTION to this rule is if you create your own subtitles as an actual part of the anime music video.

- Because of the nature of the video judging, KuroKiiro Festival Staff are allowed to enter music videos into the contest.

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AMV CONTEST CONTENT RULES
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The convention is accepting material appropriate for general audiences.  Therefore, the following content is restricted to the Contest Coordinator's decision:

- Innuendo or other situational humor that could be considered offensive
- Violent scenes deemed not excessive

and the following are banned from the contest entirely:

- Any and all language swear words;
- Excessive violence and bloodletting scenes (i.e. those found in Berserk or Elfen Lied);
- Nudity;
- Graphic Sexual Situations;

All submissions are subject to the Contest Coordinator's review and approval.  By submitting your video for review, you agree that all decisions made by the Contest Coordinator about your video are FINAL.

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TECHNICAL REQUIREMENTS
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The following video formats are the only formats that will be accepted for submission to the contest, in order from most preferred to least:

- MPEG-2 Video with MPEG-II Layer Audio (.mpeg, .mpg)
- Lagarith Lossless Codec encoded AVI (.avi)
- H.264 MP4 format (.mp4)
- DivX / XviD in AVI format (.avi) encoded at the highest quality possible (Quantizer 1 is most preferred)
- Quicktime format (acceptable, but not recommended)
- Windows Media format (acceptable, but not recommended)

(Please note that since all video will be encoded to MPEG-2 format for playback purposes, it is highly recommended that you encode your media files to MPEG-2.)

Any file format not mentioned above will not be considered and immediately disqualified. This includes MPEG-1, Real Media, or the use of any codec other than DivX, Lagarith, or XviD. If all fails, contact the Contest Coordinator and we can try to work out an acceptable solution.

It is preferable to use a frame rate of 29.976 or 23.976 as all videos will be played on a NTSC projector. All other frame rates will be converted to the preferred ones.

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SUBMISSION INFORMATION
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To request FTP or to obtain a mailing address, an e-mail must be sent to john.wendel@tekkoshocon.com with the following information:

- Video Title
- Source Used (if more than 3 list as "Various")
- Song Title (if more than 2 list as "Various")
- Music Artist (if more than 2 list as "Various")
- Aspect Ratio of the video (usually "4:3" or "16:9", however you may request on the form that you will leave it up to the AMV Department Staff to put the video into the proper Aspect Ratio.)
- Your name
- Your email address
- Your physical mailing address
- Your video's best fit category (i.e. Action/Adventure, Upbeat, Drama, etc.)  We require this information so that we can produce a balanced mix of videos for presentation at the convention.
- (Optional) A phone number you can be reached. It is only used if other means of contact are exhausted.

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VIDEO SUBMISSION BY MAIL
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If you wish to send your entry by postal mail, please indicate as such in your e-mail and an address will be provided. Please include a copy of the submission form in the mailer. If sending by mail, videos must be on a data disk (DVD or CD-R). Any other media will not be accepted. Also, do not author your videos as VOB-format DVD playback files. Please burn the actual files onto a CD-R or DVD+R/DVD-R Data Disc.

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VIDEO SUBMISSION BY ELECTRONIC MEANS
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If you wish to have your video sent by electronic means (FTP or file sharing site), you may either:

- Provide a link either with the submission information e-mail or shortly thereafter.  Note that we only take the file formats above and we will not accept links to YouTube or other Flash-based movie player sites.  

- Request an FTP account.  To do so, make sure that your subject line has the words "FTP Request".  We will provide the uploading instructions for the account.  Please note that the FTP accounts given out are only for submitting videos to KuroKiiro Festival.  If any other media or file is found in the account other than the submission video(s) and the submission form, the person who was given the account will be warned about it.  If there is still activity other than for the KuroKiiro Festival AMV Contest after being warned, then the person given the account will be disqualified from competition.

If you need assistance, please let us know.

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Any video that does not follow the guidelines and rules above WILL BE CONSIDERED DISQUALIFIED AND NOT BE ENTERED INTO THE CONTEST.  The contest coordinator will review requests for exceptions, but as stated before, in submitting your video for entry, you agree that the Contest Coordinator's decisions are FINAL.

In submitting your video, you agree that all submissions may be used for display and promotional purposes.  All videos entered will be considered to be cleared for this purpose.

The board of Tekkoshocon Inc. and KuroKiiro Festival's Administration Staff reserve the right to prohibit from convention viewing any video submission entered into the contest for any reason.  All submissions become the property of Tekkoshocon, Inc. and/or its assigns, and will not be returned to the submitter -- Please do not send in your only copy of your video submission.

If you have any questions about the rules, please send a PM to GloryQuestor on the forums or e-mail john.wendel@tekkoshocon.com .

[GloryQuestor]

We now have FTP accounts available for KuroKiiro Festival.  The rules have been revised for same.

We're still looking for more submissions, so please, send them in.

[GloryQuestor]

We are still looking for submissions for the KuroKiiro Festival AMV Contest.  There's still plenty of time to enter--deadline is November 15th for online submission.

btw... if you're someone who's just starting out in AMVs and might have that first or second video around, we certainly would like to see your video.  One of the ideas behind KuroKiiro Festival is that it is a forum for learning, and we are still a pretty small contest with a limited general audience, so we would definitely like to give your first or second video a look.  If we just happen to get enough of them...

[GloryQuestor]

Only just slightly above 17 days left to submit videos, and we're still looking for more entries.

[SuiFong]

Sent in some amvs hope you got them! looking forward to it!

[GloryQuestor]

There's less than 10 days left to go, and we have plenty of room for submissions.

[SuiFong]

So exciting! The suspense is killing me... I hope it'll last. (quick, what movie is that from?)

[betastyles]

SuiFong, on 07 November 2011 - 04:22 AM, said:

So exciting! The suspense is killing me... I hope it'll last. (quick, what movie is that from?)

Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, starring Gene Wilder

[Wombat]

betastyles, on 07 November 2011 - 01:36 PM, said:

Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, starring Gene Wilder

You say that as if there is another movie.

Hmmm, maybe I should make an amv....

[SuiFong]

Wombat, on 08 November 2011 - 11:19 AM, said:

You say that as if there is another movie.

Hmmm, maybe I should make an amv....

There is another Willy Wonka, but not as good and yes, correct!

[SuiFong]

was the deadline changed to 11/15? i thought it was 11/10? was the deadline changed due to not enuf submissions?

[GloryQuestor]

This is it!  There's just less than 24 hours to go until the end of submissions!

(SuiFong: The absolute deadline was always 11/15.  It's mail-in submissions that ended on 11/10.)

[GloryQuestor]

... and that's it!  Submissions are now CLOSED!

I will be e-mailing all of those with qualifying videos for the contest within the next day or two with more information.  The finalists for the contest will be determined and posted by Monday next week.

[GloryQuestor]

Finalists are now announced on the top page.

[GloryQuestor]

Winners have been posted.

[GreatPein]

When are the prizes getting sent out?

[GloryQuestor]

Unfortunately, due to circumstances beyond my control, I'm hoping to have all of the prizes shipped out on the first week of January.

To our prize winners, sorry for the delay in getting the certificates out to you.

[GreatPein]

sooooooooo is there an AMV contest this year? there haven't been any posts about it