ANNOUNCEMENT: IL2 Movie Competition 20 April-4 August

[DoolittleRaider]

"The Advisory Board of the Flight Sim Movies and the IL2MovieDataBase websites hereby announces an IL2 movie competition, procedures and rules as indicated below:

This is a “Short Movie Fun Event”, with both intangible and tangible prizes (including $100 USD), in which you can express your skills on film for the enjoyment of the viewers and compete against your colleagues for the honor of being the best. The required movie duration will be very short to make it easier for members to enter with limited available production time.

Although the Competition is being announced on all the popular IL2 sites and forums, the administration of the Competition will be handled through the UBI Movie-Maker Forum. Persons wishing to enter the Competition will do so by Private Message contact via the UBI Forum; thus UBI registration will be required.

A Community Vote will be conducted via the UBI Movie-Making Forum. Based on that vote, a Short List of the top five movies will be established. The Competition Judging Panel (the aforementioned Advisory Board) will then select a winner and runner-ups.

The winner will receive a virtual trophy…the coveted Flight Sim Movies Gold Eagle Award:


Any individual unique artistic and/or technical achievements will be recognized as deemed warranted by the Judging Panel.


Tangible PRIZES will include:
A total of $100 USD


and a Free multi-featured DVD of the IL2 movie “Faith, Hope, and Charity” (a $15 USD Value):


Oleg Maddox’s 1C Company has graciously offered an additional Prize for the Winner of the IL2 Movie Competition: A FREE download of any GAME from 1C Company’s Official Website:


This Prize is valued at up to $50USD/40 Euros.



Additional prizes may become available and will be announced in the future, and any additional sponsors willing to offer a tangible prize should contact the Competition Administrator (Doolittle 81). Such sponsors will still be allowed to enter the competition, themselves, if they so desire.


All entered movies will be indexed at the IL2MovieDataBase website and the Winner will be specifically considered for placement with the Best of the Best at the Flight Sim Movies website, as well as being nominated there for an award of a virtual Golden Oleg.



Entering the Competition:
Effective immediately you can enter by submitting your high resolution movie at the FSM Competition Website before midnight GMT, 15 July 2008. The entry should be in AVI or WMV format. This is the only entry route and these are the only acceptable formats. Movies posted at any other location or in other formats, such as in flash format at youtube.com, will not be considered.

Upon submitting your movie, you must also send a Private Message (PM) using the UBI forum to the Competition Administrator (Doolittle81) which will include the title of your movie.

The Administrator will regularly publish on the UBI Movie-Maker Forum a list of the people who have entered, along with their movie title.

Community Voting:
Beginning 16 July, the entered movies will be viewable in blip-tv format at the FSM Competition Website where links will also be provided to download locations for the high quality AVI/WMV versions.

Members of the UBI forums can each cast two votes for their two favorite movies. The votes will be sent by PM to the Administrator (Doolittle81). Voting will begin on 16 July with a cutoff date for voting at midnight GMT on 31 July 2008.

On 1 August 2008 the Administrator will post a Short List of the five movies which received the highest number of community votes. The Competition Judging Panel will then select the winning movie which will be announced on the 4th of August.

General Rules
a. Each registered UBI Forum member is allowed to enter only one movie.

b. The movies must not have been previously released.

c. Primary footage source must be from the IL2 game engine. You can use other supplementary sources as well, to include other Games/Sims, CGI, SoundFX, SpecialFX, etc.

d. Minimum movie duration of 3 minutes.

e. Maximum movie duration of 6 minutes.

f. Maximum movie file size of 100 Mb.

g. The Competition Panel reserves the right to disqualify grossly sub-standard movies from the competition before being published on this forum as candidate movies. The Judging Panel will screen all submitted movies before being tabled and exercise this right if necessary. Movies with visible icons, HUD displays, on-line text, visible fraps logo, etc, will be disqualified.

h. The Competition Administrator and Panel Judges will not be allowed to enter the competition.


Administrator: Doolittle81
Judging Panel: Joe-90, 310thFalcon, Monty Dan, BBloke, and Doolittle81

Closing date for entries: 15 July 2008
Closing date for voting: 31 July 2008
Publishing of voting results: 1 Aug 2008

Announcement of winners: 4 Aug 2008

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Resumes of Judges:
Monty Dan Monty-Dan's Website
Creator of:
Apocalypse Syndrome Episode 2
Adrenalin Rush - June 2007
Shot In A Million - Mar 2007
Pictures of War 2 - Oct 2006
Pictures of War - June 2005
V1 - Nov 2004
Down Olga Bridge - Aug 2004

BBloke
Creator of the IL2MovieDataBase
Creator of:
Flight of the Gigant - Feb 2004
Oasis Run - Mar 2008

Joe 90 Joe-90 Website
Creator of Flight Sim Movies Website
Creator of:
Brothers in Arms
Operation Big Ben
Beaufighters of 455 Squadron
Milne Bay
Norden Bombsight Training
Contributing Director and Master Editor of “Faith, Hope, and Charity”

Doolittle81
Co-producer and Screenwriter for “Faith, Hope, and Charity”

310thFalcon
Executive Producer of "Purple Heart Alley"
Sound FX expert for “Faith, Hope, and Charity” and many other movies


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[Oleg Maddox]

Golden Oleg ......

[KG26_Alpha]

Lol

[EAF602_Joe90]

The Golden Oleg, our very own Oscar - a most treasured award that only the best IL2 movies have received for many years now:

2007 was a good year http://flightsimmachinima.montydan.com/2007-movies

Really hoping there will be some more fantastic movies in 2008

[Bobb4]

Okay maybe a little help for the newbies?
How do you turn off online text, ingame messages from recorded tracks.
Format of the movie would also be nice?
My guess is all the above questions and answers will be on your site

[EAF602_Joe90]

Some answers are on the competition sight, yes, of course.

Other answers are to be found on the Ubi Movie Makers forum - best to discuss technical details there instead of going OT here.

[DoolittleRaider]

REMINDER: The IL2 Flight Sim Movie Competition will close the Entry/Submission period Five weeks from today. Plenty of time to complete your movies, as they can be as short as 3 minutes in duration.

Remember: $165 USD+ Value in Prizes! Good Luck!

[Bobb4]

Okay I can get rid of ingame messages, the online text but lordy how do I get rid of that little dohicky showing me I am online (it records the ping to server I thing)?

[EAF602_Joe90]

...like I said in my previous post

Bobb4, you'll get help, you just need to ask in the right place. To get an answer from experts, go to where the experts are.

[DoolittleRaider]

The IL2 Movie Competition deadline for movie entries is 15 July, just three weeks from now. There is still time to produce a 3-6 minute short movie.

Competition Announcement and Rules