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11 days left, who is doing the atomfilms contest?
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HSter
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May '08
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Date Posted:
6/30 5:57pm
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RE: 11 days left, who is doing the atomfilms contest?
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HSter
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This is not a reply to a particular post but a general question. I imagine some people here must have been to a previous event.
At the San Diego Comic Con, will they screen all the finalists or just the award winners? Can someone describe what happens in general at the ceremony/screening?
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DorkmanScott
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6/30 6:04pm
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I've only been to last year's at CIV. They screened only the award winners.
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FX_guy
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6/30 6:18pm
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Every year thus far they've opened the show with a brief montage of highlights from all the finalists.
Then immediately after each category winner is announced and the filmmaker gives his thankyou speech, they show that particular film.
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HSter
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Date Posted:
6/30 6:33pm
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Thank you for the replies. I hoped that they would screen all the finalists in one way or another. It just seems that there is a very small window to find out if you won anything or not. While I am quite happy to be just in the contest, given that I live in the East Coast it would be nice if there was a stronger incentive for every finalist to be there.
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Scott_M
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6/30 9:24pm
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I'll go if they want to shell out a couple of grand for the airfare. 
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FX_guy
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7/1 12:04am
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HSter posted:
It just seems that there is a very small window to find out if you won anything or not.
Yeah, that's just how it is - like any other award show they don't reveal anything in advance, not even to the eventual winners. The only way to find out if you won is to be at the show, or check the website the day after.
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Scott_M
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Vote ON!
(Vote on this one mainly - )
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DorkmanScott
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Oh God. I'm going to have to apologize to everyone I know for subjecting them to the new Atom as part of the voting.
What I hate most, I think, is how they've decided arbitrarily to position themselves as a "comedy" site, so all of the descriptions have to be "funny."
I'm not that upset about the description for RvD2 -- I think it's actually a better one than the one we gave them -- but some of them could be pretty insulting to the filmmakers. I don't know about Lou, but I'm rather annoyed with the way they "describe" Contract of Evil.
Along with the fact that they're all labelled "Spoofs". Weren't straight dramas allowed? Where are they if so?
Ugh. We should have entered last year's competition. I feel dirty already.
We're on the front page at the mo, but here's the direct link.
EDIT: Okay, two things. One, it's not indicated that RvD2 is a "2008 Finalist", and that concerns me. Two, can anyone actually play the movie? All I get is the damn V-cast ad and then I get the little spirally "replay" button. Which replays the V-cast ad. Does the movie play for anyone?
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Darth_Abdax
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7/1 1:25am
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I got the same thing as you, no video.
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Guybrush
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7/1 7:28am
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Good luck to all that made it.
I'm not a huge fan of the new format on Atomfilms but have to give it some time and judge later. Right now it looks cheap and feels like every other "my space" site on the internet now.
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LORDWROTH
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7/1 7:43am
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no Mike you guessed, drunk Sith Lords Ugh! 
I think I could understand about the spoof part, maybe they are still under
some weird form of agreement with Lucas LMT.
but who ever made our descriptions should have at least read the ones we sent in.
I;ll email them today and see why they said that, again maybe to make it ' seem'
like a spoof, they put that ridiculus statement in and I;ll just have to Kirk Judo chop the dude when I see him at a convention ( kidding)
anyway's congrats on being on the front page and RVD2 played watched it twice. and Contract has played with no problems, is it a plug in issue? I thought they were quicktime but it seems to be streeming vid.
anyways, here's the link to Contract of Evil http://www.atom.com/funny_videos/sw_contract_of_evil/
Mike, how many films ~do~ you have airing at Atomfilms that you've worked on?
I know mine and yours , but you've assisted with?
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FX_guy
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LORDWROTH posted:
I think I could understand about the spoof part, maybe they are still under
some weird form of agreement with Lucas LMT.
It's actually the opposite - the "new" Atom is just an online wing of Comedy Central, as of the changeover last week. As part of the change, they became comedy-only and dumped all videos that weren't comedic.
Which means the SW contest is the only place you'll find a "serious" video on Atom now. The contest still accepts serious videos, even though Atom itself no longer does.
The problem is the new Atom doesn't have a "serious" category. Here's the list of "channels" they have now - all of them comedic in some way or other.
So the best they can categorize a SW video is as a "spoof" - even if it isn't one.
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Dark_Shinder
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Date Posted:
7/1 2:49pm
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RVD2 is working now (3rd post!!!).
But the voting page is still not avaliable....
Is any of you guys going to be at the SD Comic-Con?
It would be great to meet you all...Drinks on me!!
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DorkmanScott
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7/1 2:52pm
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Okay, RvD2 is working now.
The finalists got an e-mail saying that they were still sorting out the voting. I guess that confirms we're one of them...
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Dark_Shinder
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7/1 3:07pm
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Wow....Looking at the ratings it look like someone is just giving negative mindless feedback... RVD2 55%??? Contract of Evil 100% negative!!??..that's not right.... I hope everything is diferent once the voting begins...
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