Cinematic Contest #3 - The Story of...

[Squidle]

Cinematic Contest #3
The Story Of...

Theme Description
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You have to create a story like someone is reading it for somebody else.
Something like this, it are only examples but you have to make something like that kind of cinematic.
The main character could be a Legend, God, King, regular villager or whatever you want.​

Contest Rules And Conditions

• No submission may violate any of the site rules.
• If a submission does not follow the map submission rules the creator will be disqualified.
• All submissions must follow the current theme. If any model does not fit, a moderator will tell you as soon as possible as to avoid confusion.
• Your submission must be posted before the deadline. The post containing your final submission must also contain the following:
  • Several screenshots of terrain and dialogue.
  • The file in the appropriate format.
• You must show at least one unfinished preview of your submission, before the deadline, as proof that it’s yours.
• Your submission may not be started/made before the official launch of the contest.
• Judges and/or hosts may not participate.
• Your final submission must be bug free.
• Teamwork is not allowed.
  • Finding testers and voice actors to help you with your submission is not considered teamwork.
• Imports may be used in the map, however they must all be credited.
• Your cinematic must follow the following time limits.
  • Your cinematic must be longer than 2 minutes.
  • Your cinematic may be no longer than 10 minutes.

Contest Prizes And Winnings

First Place: 50 reputation points and a first price Icon Second Place: 30 reputation points and a second price Icon Third Place: 15 reputation points and a third price Icon

Contest Judging And Voting

• Judges:
  - Septimus
  
• Judging Criteria:
  

  Storyline		-/25
  Theme		-/15
  Other	Camera, Filters, Heroes and special effects	-/10

• 90 % of the winner shall be determined by the contest's appointed judge(s).
• 10 % of the winner shall be determined by the results of a public poll.

Contestants


If you would like to enter the contest simply make a post in this thread, stating the information about your entry.

People who joined it...

Squidle

Aeroblyctos

Avator

Rowboat

EHH

ModelTester

HappyCockroach

Pharaoh_

HaniBon

.LsD

Rifleman

SlayerII

Send a PM or a visitor message to join this contest.
(Cuz I'm too busy, I don't have time to read the replies)​

Contest Dates And Deadline

• The contest shall begin on #st of July and conclude on [rainbow]#th of July.
  22:00[/rainbow] (GMT)

P.S.
"Have you already read this or/and this?"

 

[Aeroblyctos]

I'll join. This time I won't fail because I'll do the whole thing in a day or two.

 

[Avator]

We just had a Cinematic Contest #3. This would be #4. Also, I don't think you can judge this, since you are no moderator or a globally respected user (no offense). You could host it though (I think) and look for someone to take your place as judge or just go with 1 judge instead.
If that is fixed, I might consider joining.

PS: Edit the Contest Prizes and Winnings. Second and third place now also get an award icon. If that's you it's still in the default contest lay-out, I'll ask if someone edits that to prevent further mistakes with that.

 

[Squidle]

Then... It's number 4!

But why do you have to be a moderator to judge?
I won't join this contest myself if I judge, and I don't give friends a higher rating or something...

 

[Avator]

Well, we can't just rely on anyone and moderators are not allowed to judge one over another. I don't say I don't trust you, but people attach more value to the judging of a moderator then someone who hasn't been on the Hive for too long.

 

[Rui]

I doubt anyone will participate for such low rewards.
Anyway, this is usually organized by the staff. But most important of all, we've just had a Cinematic Contest #3, like Avator said, and it didn't turn out so well.

 

[Squidle]

Okay I understand

@ Rui,

I thought very high Rep wasn't allowed.
So could you edit it for me how it should be?

And if I don't judge, I'll join

 

[Linaze]

I don't think you can judge a mapping contest without showing some kind of past reviewing you've done to make sure you're the right man for the job.

 

[Squidle]

~ Update!

And at Linaze,

You're right.
Soon I will just review other people's resources and then I'll see if I join the Review-World.

 

[Gilles]

Ehhh, out last one wasn't great. Perhaps if we can get a list of people who promise to participate? If there aren't enough entries when we host this, I won't give out awards.

 

[Aeroblyctos]

Just make the whole thing small enough so people have patient to make their cinematics from beginning to end. One week could be cool as a deadline, I still remember the mini cinematic contest some months ago which was a success.

 

[Avator]

Well if the contest is going to start soon, I'll won't participate. For the time being, I rather keep my eyes fixed on my FFIX project. But if it starts about half-end juli, I'm willing to go for it if I get an idea for a cinematic (no chapter for Cecile this time, because the theme doesn't fit in that serie).

@Aeroblyctos: You've got to be kidding. You will get no quality at all if you want to make a cinematic in a week. The second contest took 2 months and the 3rd took even longer.

 

[Aeroblyctos]

...I'll won't participate...

You will, you will not participate?

@Aeroblyctos: You've got to be kidding. You will get no quality at all if you want to make a cinematic in a week. The second contest took 2 months and the 3rd took even longer.

I don't aim for a high quality cinematic at all. I'm aiming for an enjoyable contest where people will actually finish what they have started. I don't like contests that are so long and only few people finishes something.

I think the contest where that cannon map(don't remember it's name) won was a success(expect the flame of course). The contest was small enough to summon a lot of people to join and finish their entries.

 

[Avator]

Read the entire sentence. I'll won't participate if it starts too soon.

But people will likely want voice actors. And knowing that there are quite some people who do a very long time about that, will likely cause the participant's will to continue to fade. I'm also really not looking forward to making, leave alone viewer or voting on the worst cinematics I'll see for a long time. There will probably indeed be a lot more people participating if you set the quality so low, but you will not get anything satisfying from it.
My prediction with week-cinematics: A cinematic with little to no camera movement, barely any creativity, awful use of imported models, as good as no special/sound effects, crappy triggering, no timing testing at all, and having that playing on a worthless terrain.

I'm sure people are thrilled to see that and it would certainly vote for the best cinematic! (sarcasm)
It would just enhance people to vote for whoever they like best because they have no interest in checking dozens of crappy video's, and the judges have to judge more cinematics and comment much, much more per cinematic. So you'd do everyone a big favor not to make this a week-cinematic contest.

 

[Squidle]

Hmh...

Okay, I don't mind when we starts and when it ends.
And I'll join it anyway.

 

[Rowboat]

I'll join Good luck to all (when the contest starts)!

 

[Squidle]

I'll join Good luck to all (when the contest starts)!

When there are enough entries.

 

[ModelTester]

I'll join.

 

[EHH]

I will join. Hopefully, I won't get banned when he was nearly going to submit his cinematic a contest ago.

 

[Mechmap]

Also, why does "theme" count as a judging criteria?

 

[Nbah]

Are you seriously asking? I would say Theme is about 60% of the judging criteria but whatever. It's like there's a cinematic contest with theme of Drama and Sorrow, and you make an Action packed movie filled with romance and comedy. Doesn't really fit.

 

[Squidle]

Like Nbah said...

 

[HappyCockroach]

I like it. I'd participate surely, but only if we had a bunch of time to make it, since I'd make models and such for the cinematic...

 

[EHH]

I like it. I'd participate surely, but only if we had a bunch of time to make it, since I'd make models and such for the cinematic...

Like that butterfly catcher from the previous contest?

 

[Avator]

The previous cinematic contest had no butterfly catcher in it. And neither did the one before that.

 

[Aeroblyctos]

The previous cinematic contest had no butterfly catcher in it. And neither did the one before that.

And that's one of the reasons why we should have "mini-cinematic contest". If this is going to be approved I'm going to do a mini cinematic so I'm sure I will finish something this time.

 

[Lord_of_sausage]

Are you allowed to use camera systems like http://www.dragonblood-creations.de/en/downloads/systems/details.php?ID=2

 

[Avator]

Aero, that's your choice. But I'm sure to post at least once in that thread to notify people of the consequences of a mini-cinematic contest. Because the mini represents minimum quality. It's not to bring you down, but it's to make sure we keep quality contests here. Contests to show skill, and skill needs time.

 

[Squidle]

I like it. I'd participate surely, but only if we had a bunch of time to make it, since I'd make models and such for the cinematic...

So that means, you're in?

 

[HappyCockroach]

Yeah, I am... =P
LoS asked about camera systems...if we can use voice actors, i dont see a problem about it...right?

also, 25% public poll isnt good, better 10%, people dont bother to open ALL maps

 

[Avator]

Good point. Cinematic Contests should be relying most on professional judges more then any other contest, because it's the contest where people need to do most work to get a proper idea of what they're voting for. Other contests like the Phoenix Trials and Terraining Contests can give a very good idea of the actual entry by just posting the image or screenshot here.

 

[HappyCockroach]

Yeah, I'd prefer if there was no public poll...but a "10% of popularity/luck" won't be too heavy on the judging as 25% is...
I mean by luck what you have when this person bothered to take a look at your entry.

 

[DeadZero]

Hmh...

Okay, I don't mind when we starts and when it ends.
And I'll join it anyway.

Okay you don't mind when we starts and you dont mind when it ends... do you mind when we ends or when it starts?

 

[HappyCockroach]

What if it ends before it starts? It's something you should worry about...

 

[Nbah]

I would join, but only if it didn't last 4 months like the last one.

 

[Avator]

The last one took so long (not 4 months though) because there weren't enough entries, because there weren't enough participants. We should just stick with the default creation time of 1 month + possible extension.

 

[Mechmap]

Are you seriously asking? I would say Theme is about 60% of the judging criteria but whatever. It's like there's a cinematic contest with theme of Drama and Sorrow, and you make an Action packed movie filled with romance and comedy. Doesn't really fit.

I misunderstood, i thought for a second that team was what kind of cinematic you made, like one made an action story of and another a comedy story of would get more points etc.

 

[Nbah]

No, wtf? What I mean is, theres a cinematic contest with drama as a theme for example, and you decide to make some cheesy romance movie that has nothing to do with drama. Even if its a great cinematic, I doubt it would win if it didn't have anything to do with the Drama theme.

 

[Pharaoh_]

I would also join

 

[Squidle]

8 Entries ATM...

And for the date... I've rather that it ends before the 26th.
Cuz then I'm going on vacation to Spain.

 

[Avator]

If that's the 26th of juli, I can tell you already that it's not going to happen. Even if we would start right now, we couldn't get decent or enough cinematics before that date.

 

[Squidle]

Okay... Then if I'm back from Spain I'll look at the reviews...

 

[Hawkwing]

This can be hosted if a host is found.

 

[Squidle]

YaY!

Host, anyone?

 

[HaniBon]

Im in

 

[Pharaoh_]

This can be hosted if a host is found.

What "rights" does someone need to have, in order to fill this post of hosting?
Being a moderator i guess (?)

 

[Squidle]

I don't know.

I would host it if it's allowed!

 

[Avator]

The judge must be a moderator or someone who has been given permission to judge it by a moderator in the field.

 

[Squidle]

The judge must be a moderator or someone who has been given permission to judge it by a moderator in the field.

Yeah I knew that.
But are that the same rules for host?

 

[Gilles]

We have a host I think. Just going over rules and whatnot in Mods Lobby.