Question : Josh, did you get my ballot at time ?

Here’s my method explained : I’ve selected a wide range of criteria, giving a note from 0 to 5 to each movie in each category.

For the story, my criterias were :
Idea, Progression of the Story, Dialogs, Fun, Editing

For the presentation, my criterias were :
Editing, Photography, Animation, Music and Sound.

Yes, Editing is in both category because I think it has a
storytelling dimension AND a visual one too.

Concerning the “Eye of Aphrodite” I do agree, I gave it
a top rating for visuals but the music was… hum… more
disturbing than helpful ! Plus some entries had a really
better sound and music that could have fit at best with
EOA. Too bad !

Globally, my top 3 was : Daedalus & Icarus, The Factory Fix
and Sai The Magic Word. 8)
But all the entries were really close and I had to watch them a
lot of time in order to sort them !

Congrats to the winners, as usual, they deserve their prize. And
congrats for the “5 stars” : the girly voice was really cute ! I did
love it VERY much :wink

“RevMen” wrote: I thought that Lost and The Eye of Aphrodite should have fared better in this category.

Agreed, That film was my favorite. I really look into other things and I think just the action stuff in it was really neat. Overall it was the one that surprised me the most. Thats what I personally look for in a film, is something I havent seen that makes me want to go and make a brickfilm right away.

I agree with those of you that have said that people didn’t really take adventurousness into consideration. The two films that fit the theme best, EOA and The Green Dragon, both placed fairly low. The next competition should have a Theme weighting. And it should be a fairly heavy weighting, somewere around 30%. If there is going ot be an Adventure contest, I want to see adventures. Most of the HAT films REALLY stretched the theme. Though thats not to say that the general quality of the films was extremely high.

I was thinking of stripping the names from the spreadsheet I made and just posting the voting matrix

That’d be cool! I’m really interested in that!

I awarded higher scores to films that I saw as combining adventure and originality well. I do think that presenting old ideas in new ways can be original, but I am not convinced Aladibababad or Daedalus and Icarus did this in a way that I could reward. So I am glad dewfilms got into the top three, but I was hoping for it to rank higher.

Daedalus and Icarus, in particular, is an awesome film but I was only able to rate it highly production wise. Great story too, just not for this comp.

Exactly my thoughts, though I didn’t dare to write them down. Thanks, hali!
It’s the same thing as in the APE-competition, some films don’t seem to fit the theme. On the other hand, almost EVERY film/story/idea is kind of an adventure or kind of a peculiar event, so it’s difficult to forbid a film someone has worked on several months just because the theme isn’t appropriate enough.
That’s why I liked the Words of Wisdom contest so much – you could film anything you want, but there’s still something every film has in common so that you can compare them. It’s difficult to achieve that in a contest. I hope something like that will be done in the next contest – maybe Words of Wisdom II? I guess many people watching the entries got many ideas themselves…

Oh, and please date the next deadline at the end of February ’05 so I can participate

Thanks for reading,
Holgor

PS: I think Lost should’ve scored higher. Just because of an unspectacular story and bad voice acting it placed so low? Other films scored higher with bigger mistakes.
I guess most films were judged because of their “enjoyability” (is that even a word? You know what I mean), and not by the given guidelines. That’s why Aladibababad placed first, in my opinion.

I did found it hard to judge on 2 different things. For me, just voting for what I though was the best, funniest or cleverest film,. would have been enough. I’ve seen the films a few times and I did find it hard to judge. But I think Sai the Magic word was the best in both categories. Very professional, but maybe that was its weakest point. A kind of “settled” animator will have it harder to win a contest, because people are more likely to choose the underdog, the surprising newcomers etc. But although I’m normally not a big Bluntman fan, I really thought this Bluntman film was fantastic and should have won in both categories!

Well I’m still mystified that Hoogiman’s film didn’t make the top ten, but other than that I can’t exactly complain. :wink

“Leftfielder” wrote: Well I’m still mystified that Hoogiman’s film didn’t make the top ten, but other than that I can’t exactly complain. :wink

Thanks, lefty, that makes me smile.