Calling all AMV Makers!!!

[Geirr]

We have one week to go before this year's submission deadline
for the 2009 Kumoricon AMV contest. (The con is held over Labor Day weekend each year.) Kumoricon is expected to grow to about SIX thousand fans this year!

Category definitions and rules are here:
http://www.opusnet.com/guy1656/k2009-amv.htm

Brief excerpt to describe categories:

TENSION Any story or strong theme holding the audience in high suspense throughout. This could be (but not limited to) situations like: a conflict of wills, a calculated risk during a race against time, or confronting an ominous and shifting threat, or exploring and probing an unknown menace.

GENKI! The sugar-blast category. Light and fun exuberant works, possibly using dance beat. Themes with a fun-for-all, positive feel or outcome.
JAPANESE MUSIC An open category using any sort of Japanese music, from traditional to enka to J-pop.

RETRO This category has FOUR conditions. The AMV must meet any TWO of them:
(a) MIDI music from 'classic' game console systems.
(b) Audio source is anything created before 1983.
(c) All anime is 20th century.
(d) Video must appear as monochrome or black and white. You may add a sepia tone to the light color for the 'faded old film' look. (Grainy film treatments, longitudinal vertical scratches, or 'strands of hair and other cruft stuck in the projector window' effects are optional.)
Your choice - pick any two from the above.

RANDOM AMUSEMENT This is a broader category than Comedy / Parody; it also includes bizarre or off-beat works that con-fuse as well as a-muse.

TRAILERS Includes fake commercials, TV spots, and movie and game trailers. May use actual advertising audio or a fictitious creation in the style of a commercial, trailer, or fake episode opening credits. Serious and intriguing dual-openers will also show in this category. Comedy trailers may get redirected to RANDOM AMUSEMENT.

ACTION & EFFECTS This is where the high-speed music and flashy stuff meet. Take your Bonine® and buckle in!

Do *not* PM me on this forum.
Instead, if you have a submission, E-MAIL ME a download link at

guyR1656@opRusnet.com <- Remove the two capital 'R' letters.

We are taking AVI, MPG, MP4 formats this year. No WMVs MOVs, OGM, or RM.

Thank you!

PS: May our Lord bless and keep you all and all your loved ones.
We will all meet somehow, for He has promised to lead each of us Home,
helping us stand up again when we have fallen, helping us heal where we have been hurt, and standing -with His very lifeblood- in defense against our final accusor.