1) What a "Best Technical" award would do however would force the viewers ...
2) Because they're aware of a category that's there just for videos who are technically-inclined, they'll judge the non-technical videos for how good they are.
In my experience, you cannot really 'force' either the creators or the audence to do something or refrain from something they have a propensity to do. Example: no matter what the category name or goal is, anytime somebody makes a FUNNY entry in a non-comedy category, THAT one tends to win. This may not be a fair strategy, and at least ONE contest short-circuits that approach by having the CONTESTANTS classify the entries in addition to picking the best of each category.
I do something similar by using a pre-screening panel of experienced video/AMV folks, and what may very well happen is that if there are a number of technically-focussed entires, they can create the category, just like (as I said earlier) they might do to create a Romance/Drama category if several entries seem to fit best that way. As I have said earlier, I recuse myself from their selection and classification process.
Another thing: I am trying to keep the contest under one hour. (This last time we finished in a little over 45 minutes, having shown 11 entries.) So, averaging a little less than 4min:30sec to show 11 AMVs, I will aim at showing no more than 14 AMV's total, and that means 3 or 4 categories are most likely.
Are you suggesting something like: (A total of 6 - 7 prizes)
1) Action
2) Non-Action, Not-funny, Type-I (we get to determine these two types)
3) Non-Action, Not-funny, Type-II
4) Funny (Comedy, parody commercials & parody trailers)
with two or three OVERALL prizes awarded outside of categories:
- Best Technical (audience poll)
- Best of Show (audience poll)
- Judges' Choice (optional, would be chosen during the pre-screening)
and if so, we need ideas for Type I and Type II non-action, non-funny videos? At this writing I still prefer trying to steer the non-funny, non-action works into one or two original categories instead of "Drama/Romance/Sedatives"
Please note recent updates at:
http://www.ados.com/~guy1656/KumoriCon/2005-AMV.htm- G