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The AMV Submissions deadline is Friday, October 13th, 2017 @ 12:00p.m. (Noon) U.S. Central Time

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AFTV Staff:

Ernest Zamora Jr Jesse Lopez Chris Gloria Alfred DonJuan Mike Cardenas Pg. 1 The AMV Submissions deadline is Friday, October 13th, 2017 @ 12:00p.m. (Noon) U.S. Central Time

Rules & Guidelines

Table of Contents

Rev. 07/2/17

What is the Animated Music Video Contest? 3

Contest Deadline 3

Main Categories & Sub-Categories 3

Notes & Warnings for Main & Sub-Cat Selections 3

Main & Sub-Category Descriptions 4

Time Limits 5

Opening Titles & Ending Credits 5

Awards (& Prizes, If Supplied) 5

Finalists & Editors Choice Process, How it works. 6

Peoples Choice Process, How it works. 6

Video & Audio Content 6

TV/Web-stream Watermarks & Subtitles 7

Video Size, Quality, Formats, Frame-rate & Bit-rate 7

Audio Quality 8

Frequently Asked Questions (F.A.Q.) 8

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What is the Animated Music Video Contest?

The Animated Music Video Contest incorporates not only Anime, but all styles & types of animations! From old-school cartoons, current animations, animated movies, machinima videos, even self-created animations. There is no limit to what types of animation or animated genres you may use!

Animated Music Videos & Anime Music Video’s go hand in hand, essentially either a single person or a group/team effort to edit source footage in sync to a speciﬁc song or soundtrack. The doors is wide open for any kind of animations you want to use, as long as it complies with the Rules & Guidelines.

Contest Deadline

All contest submissions are due by Friday, September 30th, 2016 @ 12:00p.m. (Noon) U.S. Central Time

Main Categories & Sub-Categories

Main Categories to choose from are...

1. Fast Action 2. Epic Drama 3. Freestyle Comedy

Sub-Categories for each Main Category are...

• Generic Video • Edited Video • Created Video • Machinima

Notes & Warnings for Main & Sub-Cat Selections

So please take careful consideration on what category your video will ﬁt into. We have had many videos in the past that were excellent videos but were not submitted to the proper category and had to be unfortunately disqualiﬁed.

A good way to know where you're video belongs is to remember what was your original intention and goal of your video, that will help you determine what category your AMV will ﬁt into.

Remember, if you have any questions please email us at [email protected]

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Main & Sub-Category Descriptions Main Category Descriptions

• Fast Action

Animations containing moderate to fast music mixed with moving action scenes. This category may also contain dance/trance videos, and movie trailers if the intention is for action as op- posed to comedic.

• Epic Drama

Animations intended to produce an emotional response from the audience, whether joyful, sor- row, romantic, depressing, or up-lifting. This category may also include Horror, Serious, and Sentimental videos.

• Freestyle Comedy

As the name implies, is for ANY animations with comedy, humor, jokes, skits, or just plain wacky randomness; you may as source as many audio clips from various movies, television, or pop-culture you wish. Movie trailers are permitted if parodies are comedic.

Sub-Category Descriptions

• A Generic Video - Single-Editor or Multi-Editor

Video that contains original animation source footage with little, to no use of user-created effects or animations. 80/20

• A Edited Video - Single-Editor or Multi-Editor

Video that contains an equal amount of animation source footage alongside the use of user- created effects or animations. 50/50

• A User-Created Video - Single-Editor or Multi-Editor

Video that contains some, to very little original animation source footage, and is as least 80% use of user-created effects or animations. 20/80

• A Machinima - Single-Editor or Multi-Editor

Video that contains scripted real-time gaming engine that you created via cinematic produc- tion software such as Source Film Maker or other various software.

>|*PRE-GENERATED CG CUT-SCENES from videos games are NOT ALLOWED!*|<

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Time Limits

For ALL videos that are submitted there is a 5 Minute Maximum Time Limit. If a song is more than 5 Minutes long please email us at [email protected] before submitting any video that is longer than 5 Minutes.

It will be at our discretion if we should accept any video over 5 Minutes long.

Opening Titles & Ending Credits

In a protective measure to ensure each video is rightfully created by you and is not stolen. We highly Recommend that ALL videos have either Opening Title Card or Ending Credits giving credit to the source’s of the material you used and giving credit to yourself or group. These credits will NOT count towards your Time Limit.

Example of a simple Title Card:

(Name of Animation) (Name of Band/Artist) - (Name of Song) (Name of Editor/Group)

“Animaniacs” “Queen” - “Bicycle” “By AwesomeSause”

For those who use Multiple sources of animation and audio you may use “Various Animations” & “Vari- ous Audio”

Example:

“Various Animations” “Various Audio” “By AwesomeSause”

Awards (& Prizes, If Supplied)

Editors Choice Award

The Editors Choice Award is awarded to the top rated videos selected by our editors

Peoples Choice Award

The Peoples Choice Award is awarded to best feedback given by the attendees.

Editors & Peoples Best AMV Overall Award

Editors & Peoples Best AMV Overall Award is given to one video deemed ‘Best Overall’ in the en- tire contest.

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Finalists & Editors Choice Process, How it works.

1. Our video Finalists & Editors Choice selection process is simple, we invite people from either the convention staff & AnimeFunTV staff to view ALL submitted videos; then they will score each video from 1 to 10; 1 being poor to 10 being best.

• Scoring is based on may factors such as, proper category selection, presentation, editing, tim- ing, fun factor, & quality.

• None of the invited staff will have seen the submitted videos up until the private screening day for a fair non-bias scoring.

2. Once all the scores have been tallied up, the top selections for each category will move on to be ﬁ- nalists shown in the time scheduled for us at the convention.

• We do our best to rate and select the best videos and show them in the given time scheduled to us at the convention.

• Sadly, not all videos will be able to make it into the time that is scheduled to us by the convention.

• We try to inform everyone of their video’s status, however we may or may not be able to give you that information until days or hours until the day of the convention.

3. The Top-3 rated videos from each category will be dubbed ‘Editors Choice’ & one of those videos will be chosen as ‘Editors Best AMV Overall’.

Peoples Choice Process, How it works.

1. At the event, we will recored and ask everyone in attendance to freely express there feelings and feedback for each of the ﬁnalists shown at the event. With that feedback we will announce (at a later date after review) the results.

Video & Audio Content

ALL content, both in the video and audio must be for ALL AGES!

Absolutely NO Sexual or Obscene images is permitted.

Vocal profanity is NOT allowed.

Please use a "clean" or “radio edit” versions of music.

You are permitted to censor audio yourself via audio bleep or silence.

Any video in violation will be immediately DISQUALIFIED!

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TV/Web-stream Watermarks & Subtitles Any…

• Television/Web-stream logo’s • Subtitles/Intro/ending credits originally in the animation. • Subbing/Dubbing Studio logo’s • Video encoder logo’s, or any such type of watermarks…

Are NOT allowed and will be immediately DISQUALIFIED!!

Please use DVD or clean footage for your source material.

NOTICEABLE EXEMPTIONS

1. You ARE allowed to use subtitles ONLY when its accompanied with a voice of a different lan- guage to explain a scene, or a subject matter within your video.

2. You ARE allowed to use your OWN custom watermarks to prevent theft of your video.

Video Size, Quality, Formats, Frame-rate & Bit-rate

All video submissions MUST be a video size of 720x480 (NTSC SD-TV standard) or larger.

Editors Advice: Avoid using grainy low-quality footage as it will hurt your video’s editors scoring. If you need a good source of footage material, we recommend purchasing a DVD/Blu-ray for your source material.

High Deﬁnition (HD) & Widescreen videos are acceptable.

Frame rates greater than 29.94 FPS are acceptable.

All video submissions must be in a format readable by MacOS or Windows OS computer.

We highly recommend using H.264 codec (.mov/.mp4/.m4v) for the best quality & compression.