My job was to select the Best Execution and give a special award of my choice to any AMV.
50 videos were submitted, about half were pretty good and 10 were excellent. I was surprised by the quality of entries in the AMV contest. Damn, these people are serious about AMV! The convention was smaller scale than what I’m used to with Japan Expo (6 000 vs 240 000 visitors) but it was much more pleasant to attend with cool events such as cosplay, AMV contest, Final Fantasy concert, game/movie/anime symphonic orchestra/choir and other stuff but I was pretty busy and couldn’t see everything. The highlight for me was the screening of Umbrella Corp (beta™) in the amazing Tampere-talo auditorium.
I wasn’t ready for this level of attention, everything was perfect and I hope I delivered a good enough performance. 5 days in Helsinki & Tampere, guided visits, infinite food, taxi, killer hotel, private backstage room with my name on it (!!!), VIP all the way, double Nostromo interview, chat with Finish editors, handshakes and photos with fans (holy shit there are actual people who know me and like my stuff!). It’s been a while since I went to a convention and I wasn’t sure what to expect of this guest of honor business but it turned out to be quite an adventure. Should I bring chocolate, macarons, Eiffel Towers souvenir from Paris? I’ve got a better idea, let’s make a new AMV that we will premiere at the convention just before I get called on stage for the AMV contest! So I’m being invited, the staff is taking care of literally everything for me, I can’t come empty handed. I really wasn’t sure I was legit for attending this event and expressed my doubts about it but as the Tracon staff insisted I thought to myself “hey, this is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity that will probably never present itself again so let’s just go and see what happens!”. This is how one of the biggest adventure of my life (so far) began.Īlthough I never stopped making AMV, I know I’m not a big name of the current AMV scene and left the top 10 a while ago. – How about coming to a convention in Finland as guest of honor?
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