AMV Iron Chef

The Iron Chef AMV Competition is the place to discover whether or not you can tough it out with the best AMV creators out there. Here you can prove that you are the most versatile, the most creative, and generally the Iron Cheffiest AMV creator out there. If you believe you have what it takes to come up with a great video in a short amount of time, then read on. 

This competition is open to anyone who dares compete, subject to availability due to time-constraints; however, you must be registered and present at Manifest for both days of the competition.

Start Time: TBA, Saturday 27st August 2010

End Time: TBA, Sunday 28nd August 2010

Application Close Date: 11:59 PM, August 14th 2011

Competition Structure

The condition and/or theme (ie: “Secret Ingredient”) that you are to use for your AMV will be revealed on the Saturday unveiling session. You are free to use any video editing program but you must specify the most likely codec that you will be rendering in to ensure compatibility on the day (see the entry details below). 

Saturday:

• The Chairman unveils the material to be used.
• Contestants receive the material and have until the competition the next day to produce their entry.

Sunday:

• Contestants are taken through a small instruction session an hour before the contest.
• The AMVs of each contestant will be screened to the audience and a panel of judges.

Note: We want to point out again that you can use any video editing program and any computer that you can get your hands on. This means you can bring your laptop computer and start editing at Manifest itself, or you can go home or wait till after Manifest on Saturday to edit in your home computer, or however else you want. If you purchase a Mani-Madness pass, you could even stay overnight to edit. It's completely up to you, but note however that Manifest will not provide you with a location, computer and/or software to edit with. You must also continue to abide by all the terms and conditions of attendance as outlined in your registration while on site.

Rules:

1. You must be both pre-registered for and at Manifest for both the times on Saturday and Sunday that the Iron Chef AMV competition is running.
2. All video media must be submitted to the Information Desk or to the AMV Coordinator at least one hour before the Iron Chef AMV Competition Judging Event on Sunday.  AMVs submitted later than this will be disqualified. You will be given a proper run through of the event as well as last minute clarifications at this time, so be sure to turn up.
3. Only one video per person.
4. You must comply with the conditions and/or theme that will be revealed during the Saturday unveiling session in order to gain the necessary scores to win the competition.
5. AMV entries must be no longer than 6 minutes.
6. AMVs must not have an intro, credits, bump in or bump outs, or any other additions that do not immediately relate to the content of your video.
7. No heckling and no lewd or lurid behaviour during the competition.
8. Any person who has authority to determine the outcome of the competition is ineligible to enter the competition. These are Judges, MCs, AMV Coordinators & their assistants, and Melbourne Anime Festival Committee of Management Members.
9. The submitted AMV must be suitable for an audience expecting the equivalent to an OFLC M15+ rating.
10. The AMV Coordinator may disqualify an entry for any reason.  Such reasons include, but are not limited to, the breaching of these rules, the use of music and/or video deemed within the AMV community as not suitable for the creation of AMVs, or the utilisation of discriminatory content.
11. You must submit videos that only you yourself create within the given time frame. Submitting someone else's video or impersonating someone will mean your immediate disqualification from the AMV competition and your referral to the Manifest organisers for disciplinary action.

Terms & Conditions of Entry:

Please ensure that your video complies with the following requirements:

Your video must be in CD, DVD, flash drives and/or portable hard-drives (USB connections are available). No authored DVDs, VCD or SVCD. This is an on the spot event and we want to be able to quickly change videos.

• Please submit your entry in one of the following formats.  The formats below will be accepted, and we prefer that you encode them in either MPG, AVI, MKV, MP4, WMV or OGM containers only:
  • DivX, XviD, DV-AVI
  • MPEG1, MPEG2
  • x.264

Other formats may be accepted based upon the equipment made available for screening at the convention, however no assurances are made that we can utilise a codec other than those listed.  Manifest takes no responsibility for being physically unable to screen an AMV.

• It may be a good idea to have multiple copies on different media in case what you bring becomes unusable on the day. Manifest will take no responsibility for being unable to screen your entry to the judges.

Judging Criteria:

• Quality of Video - Out of 10
• Synchronisation - Out of 10
• Music Choice - Out of 10
• Special Effects - Out of 10
• Wow Factor - Out of 10

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