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Section 1 – Who is invited to the Screening
Section 2 – Who may participate in the Screening
Section 3 – Note Keeping
Section 4 – Anonymity
Section 5 – Disqualifications
Section 6 – Re-categorizing
Section 7 – Scoring
Section 8 – Exhibition
Section 9 – Judges’ Awards
Section 10 – Cutting Videos
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1* – Who is invited to the Screening
Convention Executives and their Assistants receive an invitation to the Contest
Screening as a courtesy to them. Executives are also invited to bring a spouse,
significant other, or their children. This open invite is because Sakura-Con
is a family-friendly organization.
Additionally, the Stage Events Manager is to receive an invitation for themselves
as well as their spouse, significant other, or children. No one else may receive
the invitation without the consent of both the AMV Contest Coordinator as well
as the Executive Board.
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2* – Who may participate in the Screening
Only Executive Officers of Sakura-Con, their Assistants, and the Stage Events
Manager may receive a Screeners’ Ballot for the purpose of determining
the final cuts of the contest. Spouses, significant others, and children in
attendance are welcome to watch the videos being screened but are asked not
to score videos.
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1 and 2 are final and may only be overruled by a majority vote of the Executive
Board, no sooner than 2 weeks before screening.
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3 – Note Keeping
At the start of the Screening a single person, most likely but not limited to
the AMV Contest Coordinator, will be asked to keep track of which videos are
disqualified and why, as well as which videos have been re-categorized. This
is so that a single concise list of these changes is kept as opposed to separate
lists.
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4 – Anonymity
All videos shown in the Screening will only have their unique entry number attached
to denote its identity. At no time during the Screening will the creator of
the video be revealed. At the conclusion of the Screening after the Judges’
Awards have been decided, a list of videos not sorted into categories will be
made available to those interested.
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5 – Disqualifications
Videos will be automatically disqualified if they contain any of the following:
• Graphic nudity
• Excessive violence/gore
• Foul language – certain words may be deemed acceptable by the
panel as needed
• Videos containing a majority of footage not of Japanese Animation in
origin
• Videos containing subtitles that are not added by the editor to enhance
the video
• Videos containing bumpers that cannot be cut out
• Videos containing watermarks of any sort – example: DIVX Logo
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6 – Re-categorizing
The Screening Panel may choose to re-categorize a video if they feel it is in
the wrong category. This is done through a vote of the panel, majority wins.
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7 – Scoring
Videos will be scored on a scale of 0 – 5 with 0 being the worst. Decimal
points may be used to further diversify a score (such as 3.5) to help denote
videos which are close in overall score.
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8 – Exhibition
The Exhibition Category will be shown in a seperate showing in the AMV Theater
and thus not be scored, and the only disqualifications that will apply are those
for graphic nudity, excessive violence/gore, foul language, and videos containing
a majority of footage not of Japanese or original animation in origin.
No videos may be recategorized into, or out of this category.
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9 – Judges’ Awards
After the Screening has concluded the Panel will be asked to discuss and vote
on two awards. This vote will be done by anonymous ballot and will decide the
recipients of the Most Artistic Award as well as the Technical Award.
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10 – Cutting Videos
After the Screening has happened, the Contest Coordinator will average the scores
per video. Videos will be cut based on lowest scores. To keep categories balanced,
cuts may be made based on the scores only of videos in the relevant category.
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Tom Allmendinger
AMV Contest Coordinator
September 19, 2010