Guybrush posted:That guy who sold the award should have started it out at $5000.00 and then droped it down to find the value for it. I was looking at the hits Ryan vs. Dorkman have on youtube and it is 4 million. The same video that is playing on Atom (which is the host of the awards and has had RVD2 up for one whole year) is sitting on 13,000 views? Something is wrong. I don't blame Lucasfilm on this one, they don't control the way the content is handled. They just gave Atom the rights to distribute the films, but they do need to find a better partner to team up with then Atom after the contract runs out. That is if they continue the competition. There has to be a better partner to market these films. It is still popular, youtube views prove that along with the attendance at the awards show at comic con. Star Wars is a huge franchise and Atom is dropping the ball when they can't bring in viewers. That is Atoms only job, it is what they are supposed to do. The difference between viewers on Youtube vs. Atom for the same movies is huge. Again... RVD2 4 million views vs. 13,000 Jedi Gym 600,000 views vs. 10,754 A few years ago, Atom and Youtube were on the same page when it came to views for the Star Wars fan film finalist and in some cases doing an even better job of getting the film out to an audience.Pink 5 and the other award winners in the 2004 competition come to mind. If you had a great star wars fan film, you were almost guaranteed 100,000 views or more...sometimes way more! It was a great reason to be in this competition. Now, odds of you breaking 15,000 views with a great film is very very slim. It's not that star wars has played out....rvd2 getting 4 million views on youtube proves that, Atom needs to get it's act in gear before it loses a huge franchise. If I were Lucasfilm, I would be looking for a new partner.
phantasmo posted:I suppose the SW fan challenge is their "good old days" franchise.
Guybrush posted:"On a extra note I saw some of the accepted videos on the Atom site (the official channel is not ready yet).. and pretty good works, for all tastes, but I don´t know if I made a list here I´m spoiling the official announcement or the very own author publicity campaign!" Cool that you saw some of the accepted videos. How many made it this year? 15...40? Thought 40 last year was a little too much.
Knucklehead_Films posted:I know I already posted a link to my film, but I put it up in high def on vimeo, so I thought I would throw up a link so everyone can check it out in FAR better quality (this was shot in full HD 1920, 24p): http://www.vimeo.com/5222992 Thanks!
kuatengineer posted:Good job with that one, and a good Vader voice too, which always goes a long way. And it's a small detail, but thank YOU for using the EXIT sign in the background to your advantage!