Art of Vidding Awards - Round 20 Results posted

[thedothatgirl]

Awards are posted for Rd 20 of the Art of Vidding Awards.  Check them out here. Thanks to my co-conspirator and judge whiskyinmind for her help as always.

It may not have been a very big round in number of entries but in terms of competition, some categories were brutal. And I don't think we've ever had so many vids in contention for Music/Action or Editing Rounds.  It seemed a shame to just to have two judge's choices each but we had to stop somewhere.  Check out the winning vids - you won't be disappointed.

Not sure when the next round will happen. There's a definite decline in interest for these vidding competition so we may have a rethink and any thoughts are welcome in the comments.

Comments

[bradcpu.livejournal.com]

Absolutely blown away by the awards, especially since - as you said - the level of competition there was insane. Also, preeeeeeeeetty.

I really hope the site sticks around in some form. I've seen so many other great awards sites sort of fade away recently. It's clear that there's less participation these days, but I wonder if that's something that can be addressed by a change in format or structure. I'm afraid I don't have many answers, only lots more questions. But I do plan to bring all of this up at Vividcon. Are you planning to attend VidUKon? I'd love to hear what they had to say on the subject.

[thedothatgirl.livejournal.com]

Congratulations Brad - your awards are much deserved as Ride To California is probably the best vid I saw in 2012. The time toggling is like woah, and that little clip at 2.32 with Blackwidow always, ALWAYS makes me far happier than you would expect.

I'm still deciding whether to go to VidUkon. Cardiff is a bit of a drive for me (solo - can't entice John to go this time) but it may be the only convention I attend this year so it's still possible.

I don't really want to close AvA as I'm still very attached to that part of my site. But there's no denying that many people don't submit.

I'd rather not lower the judging standards to make it easier to win an award, and not keen having awards based purely on polls.

One thing to consider may be to accept vids that are just streamed. Perhaps we have to just carry on but with smaller rounds. Any further ideas are very welcome :)

[bradcpu.livejournal.com]

Aw, you're so sweet! :)

that little clip at 2.32 with Blackwidow always, ALWAYS makes me far happier than you would expect
Hee, I certainly wanted to come go with her.

I hope I get a chance to come to VidUKon some day. Among other things, it would be absolutely lovely to meet you.

Rest assured you're not the only person who's attached to AvAs, and I don't mean just among the entrants. You may be on to something about accepting streaming vids and smaller rounds. I'm going to bat some ideas around the community (about awards sites in general).

[mresundance.livejournal.com]

Uhm, it's asking for an authentication name and password to visit the site? :(

[thedothatgirl.livejournal.com]

Really?? Weird. Let me check that out.

[thedothatgirl.livejournal.com]

How peculiar - I've had no problem (obviously) and not had any messages from anyone else about it. I'm using Firefox and I just tried IE with no problem.

Have you tried going into the front page and navigating through to the winners page? If you still get stuck I'll post your awards here...

[mresundance.livejournal.com]

I did last night -- and it wasn't working -- but it's working fine now, so no worries. Shiny awards! So many good vids. I don't envy the judges the choices they had to make.

(And thanks! Hee.)

[thedothatgirl.livejournal.com]

Thanks glad you like the awards, also thank you for submitting your vid in the contest. We always look forward to seeing what you have come up with each time.

I may ask my website host about this stupid problem. So strange.