CATEGORIES
There are six categories for the EAF 2023 contest:
1- POSITIVITY
Your happy endings, words of encouragement, and unicorns go here.
2- INTENSITY
Action, suspense, wild digital effects, conflict!
3– DRAMA
Epic sagas, loss, triumph, and dramatic gophers of the more serious type.
4- ROMANCE
Make us feel the love tonight.
5- TRAILER
Now playing at an AMV contest near you…
Fake commercials also fit in here.
6- WILD CARD
Anything that doesn’t fit in above goes here! Show me what you got!
In addition, we will award three other prizes: Judges Choice (Chosen by our panel of AMV judges) and Best In Show (Chosen by our attendees).
Special for 2023
Not restricted to only animation originating from Japan.
Wild Card category is truly a wild card category so you can show us the best you got even if it doesn’t fit in our normal categories.
A reminder that bumpers before and after videos are not allowed. We will ensure you are credited in the contest through our own overlays and the ballot.
CONTENT RESTRICTIONS
We try to run a clean show. All videos submitted must be PG-13 or below. This means we want NONE of the following: panty shots, exposure or fondling of “private parts,” gross or gory dismemberment, profanity (swear words), or themes likely to insult or disparage by race, social class, religion, ethnicity, gender, or sexuality—because that’s NO FUN for anybody.
Also, you can make your own subtitles, but you should remove subtitles from your source material. You must also remove any broadcast logos and any other commercial logos from your video. (One exception to this rule is if the AMV is a parody of incompetent video editing…)
Finally, it’s not a music video if it does not have music through at least 80% of the video (except for the Trailers and Wild Card categories).
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What Counts As Anime?
Anime is a Japanese word which is short for animation. In Japan, all animation is anime regardless of where it is from. In this spirit, we are not restricting any category based on country of origin. For the purposes of this contest, anime means anything animated unless it is intended to be photorealistic or seen as live action. For example, “The Lion King (2019)” and “Avatar (2009)” are both considered to be live action due to the intention of all CGI to appear real and not animated. All entries must have at least 90% anime by frame count. Compositing anime onto other stuff makes it count as anime.
Submitting and Video Formats
Participants should make their videos in the MP4,AVI,WMV format. The format is the barest minimum of video quality that we require.
Participants will fill the form below and follow the instructions. Also participants should make sure to indicate the categories they are submitting for , in order to avoid any mix up. Also take note that a participant can only submit one video for all of the contest. We are only doing this to accommodate as many people for the contest.
Please adhere to the simple rules we’ve laid down because failure to comply with any of these rules will result in discarding of any video that lacks any of these qualifications.
Hot Tips and Helpful Hints
We want everyone to have the best entries they can. Please refer to these helpful hints to ensure the best submissions you can make:
AMVs are more likely to be selected if they are more than just clips of anime put to music. Do your best to create AMVs which tell a story or have a clear theme.
Leave the audience wanting more. Remember to edit it to a length which fits the story or message you are trying to get across. Your AMV does not need to be the length of the song you choose.
Keep an eye on current trends in culture, anime, music, etc. The winners are chosen by the audience, so if it’s popular with most anime fans, it is likely to go over well with our audience.
Ensure no references to other contests appear in your videos.
Avoid content which changes resolution or aspect ratio. While sometimes this can be acceptable, such as when videos move from old to new content as part of its theme, generally this should be avoided.
Avoid constantly zooming in/out.
We are looking for videos, not slideshows set to music.
Do not include overlays on the AMV which are otherwise not part of the AMV such as overlays which introduce the video. We will be adding our own overlays to introduce each video for the AMV showings.
Avoid having any footage before or after your video. It helps us a lot when prepping for the AMV showing if we do not need to cut frames before or after your video. Bumpers, credits, etc. are no longer allowed before or after the video. We will ensure you are credited in the contest through our own overlays and the ballot.
Most of all, when making your videos, think about the music videos and trailers you have enjoyed the most and why. Be creative and make something you like and others will like it too.
Deadlines
Submissions must be sent in before 01/December/2022.
A panel of judges will convene to review all entries and select up to six AMVs per category. The judges’ decisions on the playlist is final
Prizes
Every winning video will receive a cash prize. (Who doesn’t like cash?)
The winner of each category will receive 5,000 Naira
The winner of the Best In Show award will receive 10,000 Naira.
Prizes stack for videos that win multiple awards. Prizes will be awarded on-site for any winners that attend EAF.