Rules
1. All TV and/or movie vids are accepted, including AMVs, trailers, actor appreciation vids and vids using original and/or external video footage.
However, judges' decisions will involve a high level of thematic analysis. Please take this into consideration when selecting your submission, and note that judges' knowledge of the source is likely to play into our decisions. If we don't know your source, then we may not be able to access your narrative and themes on a significant level. On a less important technical note, we might not be able to tell what was inherently in source and what was vidder input.
For a list of fandoms that the judges are familiar with, please check the section on judging.
2. The video you enter must be your own, and must have premiered during 2007. "Premiere" means when the vid was first released for public download online, or when it was first shown at a convention/vidshow/other public event, whichever is the earlier.
3. A vidder may enter one video only for each annual round. Collaborations are permitted, however none of the vidders involved in the collaborations can enter another video for the round.
4. Explicit language and content are fine.
5. We accept the following file types, zipped or unzipped: WMV, AVI, Real Media, MPEG-1, Quicktime, DivX, MP4.
6. Please keep file sizes to 60MB or less. We apologise for the hassle, but one of the judges is on a very tight download budget and cannot afford to download many large files. We will exercise a degree of leniency with this rule, but we will not accept any entry that is significantly over the size limit. Smaller resolutions/lower bitrates will not affect our judging.
7. You may use any file hosting site to submit your video, but we must be able to download it. Streaming video sites (e.g. YouTube, Imeem) will not be accepted.
8. If you have your own site, please link back to us.
9. If we discover clip theft, the vid will be disqualified and the reason publicised. In cases of doubt, as a matter of policy we will ask the vidder for written confirmation that s/he has used original footage.
10. If you think your message is too complex to get by simply viewing the vid, we will accept a link to accompanying vidder notes or audio commentary (within reason - we won't bother trawling through ten pages of meticulously time-stamped notes on what every single frame means). However, please note that we will take narrative transparency into account; if your vid can't make sense unless you elaborate heavily on it elsewhere, it probably will not score highly in respect of an effective and elegant narrative.