Farkin's 1st Annual Video Competition

[simonleshank]

My video isn't in the MIX.

-rw-r--r-- 1 ftp ftp 17378307 Oct 4 17:48 simonleshank_3.mp4

is the one listed. However, it isn't the right video. You can follow this link below

http://web.mac.com/jdarcey/johndarcey/simonleshank1.html

to view my video.

Cheers

[simonleshank]

Ok, it's a bit of a task working some of these out. Can I get each of you (who submitted) to identify which is your video, and if there are a couple failed submissions tell me which ones to delete. I'll put username's next to the ones that appear to be the proper submissions.

Hey Scott - SimonLeShank videos are made by user simonleshank.

The one in the list isn't the right video, but that's ok. I have put up a link on thread page 26 of the forum to the actual video.

Let me know how you get on.

Cheers


Darcey

[disappearin]

here is the youtube link to our vid.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V0-KN-sLC1k

[simonleshank]

who made exposure? what camera did you use? clearly it's pretty blinging.

Pretty keen to compare notes.

Looks like you are using some pretty slick camera/editing combos.


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[tim_1045]

-rw-r--r-- 1 ftp ftp 14390748 Oct 6 01:22 tim_1045.avi (http://files.farkin.net/videocomp2007/tim_1045.avi)
That's Mine:cool:

[tim_1045]

-rw-r--r-- 1 ftp ftp 49872896 Oct 6 01:04 Final_output.mov
This one is mine that failed too... so u can delete it
thanx

[gilly101]

I just thought id give you all the link to my vid on the net.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SAeedbEJcr4

Be sure to download the actual vid to get some good quality :)

[CAB]

An idea for voting is:

Everyone sends their favorite 5 as a list to Scott in a pm and he tallies each video and the 5 most voted vids go to the next stage

[freeride_ac]

great video's guys. The quality is amazing. some of the standout's so far would have to be exposure and simonleshank. Whats with the entries from overseas? do they count?

[demo man]

An idea for voting is:

Everyone sends their favorite 5 as a list to Scott in a pm and he tallies each video and the 5 most voted vids go to the next stage

That's an incredibly unfair idea. Why would Scott want to have to tally up a few thousand votes? He already gets a shit-load of PMs everyday...

[simonleshank]

Yeah, probably should come down panel of riders judging the vids. In doing that, the judges could actually film themselves watching and discussing the vids and uploading it. Would be a cool way to announce the winners instead of just a standard text based announcement.

Still a bit of work, but would add to it.

PS. Thanks to those who have been talking up my vids. Really appreciate it. Nice one.

SimonLeShank

[24alpha]

Yeah, probably should come down panel of riders judging the vids. In doing that, the judges could actually film themselves watching and discussing the vids and uploading it. Would be a cool way to announce the winners instead of just a standard text based announcement.

Still a bit of work, but would add to it.

PS. Thanks to those who have been talking up my vids. Really appreciate it. Nice one.

SimonLeShank

The problem with that is the judegs are strewn across the country!!! Nice idea though.

[jda]

The voting hasn't started yet has it?

[24alpha]

The voting hasn't started yet has it?
And when it does, will we see mass posts saying "vote for my video"?

Hope not!!!!!

[Tristan23]

Personally I think those who are in the 'Pro' category, plus a couple of mods and/or admins should do the voting. People like Sam Davies, Olly Smith, Squidly, Scott, etc. Leaving the fate of people's videos up to members of Farkin could quite possibly be disastrous, as videos will no doubt often be voted on riding ability and choice of music rather than how well they fill the specified criterion set out at the start of the whole competition...

[24alpha]

Personally I think those who are in the 'Pro' category, plus a couple of mods and/or admins should do the voting. People like Sam Davies, Olly Smith, Squidly, Scott, etc. Leaving the fate of people's videos up to members of Farkin could quite possibly be disastrous, as videos will no doubt often be voted on riding ability and choice of music rather than how well they fill the specified criterion set out at the start of the whole competition...

I agree totally Tristian, or the type of riding they like.

[Aaron547]

I third what Tristan said, vorb do theirs like that and its a proven system. If it was just going to be up to the farkin public to vote, the winning vid would be anything with Holy Diver in it...

[Viv92]

Since when does everyone on farkin like Holy Diver so much?

Good point about the voting though, but we'll just have to trust people.

I wonder if there will be any XC videos on this, that'd be pretty weird to watch. Could be cool if you could make it look nice.

[Lemontime]

Personally I think those who are in the 'Pro' category, plus a couple of mods and/or admins should do the voting. People like Sam Davies, Olly Smith, Squidly, Scott, etc. Leaving the fate of people's videos up to members of Farkin could quite possibly be disastrous, as videos will no doubt often be voted on riding ability and choice of music rather than how well they fill the specified criterion set out at the start of the whole competition...

Cause every single person on farkin is a completely biased and one-sided retard without a creative cell in their head.
Damn right, let the pros choose!

[Tristan23]

Cause every single person on farkin is a completely biased and one-sided retard without a creative cell in their head.
Damn right, let the pros choose!

Don't be angry at me because you don't know how to use a camera..;)

On a more serious note, have a think about your argument, and read my post again, in particular the section in bold;

Personally I think those who are in the 'Pro' category, plus a couple of mods and/or admins should do the voting. People like Sam Davies, Olly Smith, Squidly, Scott, etc. Leaving the fate of people's videos up to members of Farkin could quite possibly be disastrous, as videos will no doubt often be voted on riding ability and choice of music rather than how well they fill the specified criterion set out at the start of the whole competition...

Did i ever say every single vote will be coming from a "completely biased and one-sided retard without a creative cell in their head"..such as yourself? I simply stated, due to the median age of many Farkin users being 16 years or below (and thus can be safely assumed their knowledge on the fine art of film making has not yet fully developed), it may not be the most even system to use..

[Lemontime]

Just open voting to people with post counts above 750.
When post counts go up, so do smartnesses!

[LIAM?!]

Tristan I hear where your coming from mate, and that is exactly how it will go down, 'kids' from the ages 12-16 will only decide on the riding factor, big tracks, fast riding, etc.. and this is obviously a Video comp so there are alot more factors than just the riding. good point tristan! I agree.

[gilly101]

I deffers think the idea of the judges judging it would work alot better. At least that way its an independant panel that would at least moderate the votes. And at least that way there might be a fairer level of judging and it wont be totallty based on who has the best video camera and editting program to make it look blinging. After all a higher quality camera does make a video more attractive to the eye

[jda]

Just open voting to people with post counts above 750.
When post counts go up, so do smartnesses!

Jeez I hope your being sarcastic!

[simonleshank]

hahahaahahhaha!!!!!

You leave the room for ten minutes and all hell breaks loooooooose !!!

oh well... makes for a good political stage and suits the broader social climate right now anyhow !

How bout we make it... the winner gets drawn out of a hat... just kidding.

[gingerbreadman]

hey scott, my vidisnt inh the lie list of succesfully uploaded films, and i was wondering if i still have time to try again.... again. i just cant work it out

[Tristan23]

hey scott, my vidisnt inh the lie list of succesfully uploaded films, and i was wondering if i still have time to try again.... again. i just cant work it out

You're 13 days late dude. Don't think that's gonna go down well..

[gingerbreadman]

well thought it was worth a shot seeing how much time i put into it. but no matter.

[Aaron547]

Scott, mine seems to have died...

http://www.farkin.net/download/videocomp2007/entry%20--Aaron547.mov

as you can see there is no actual video on there...

Cant be easy getting all these videos to work, If worse comes to worse I can supply a streamed version of the video (unless that is against the rules)

Keep up the good work Scott :)

[LOLE]

some of the vids are sweet. that dude on the trials vid(disappearin) is awesome.

[Scott]

all videos are going up on RipTV here.

http://www.rip.tv/ScottFarkin/videos/

When I'm finished uploading (big job) we'll get the initial judging rolling.

[Aaron547]

Scott im not meaning to be a pain in the neck, your doing an awesome job.

But some of the vids will be in 16:9 and Riptv is only in 4:3, so those videos will of course appear stretched out.

But hey I can live with that...just saying...

Edit: maybe if you make us upload them ourselves, then just embed it into the forum. But by all means, do it how you, the organizer, wants to do it :)

[Viv92]

Some damn good videos, really hard to pick a winner at the moment. Beno-66, Tristan, alchimia and jda all have rippin' clips. I reckon Tristan or alchimia is gonna take it. They are two fantastic movies. I guess we haven't even seen 'em all yet though.

[wdshiver]

I just had a thought, next competition everyone has one song which they have to make a video with.

So everyone has to make a video with the song More- Britney Spears or something. Although could become tedious having to watch video after video with the song

[projectsplat]

I just had a thought, next competition everyone has one song which they have to make a video with.

So everyone has to make a video with the song More- Britney Spears or something. Although could become tedious having to watch video after video with the song


whilst I apprecite your attempt at humour there.... it would get so boring/annoying that it would detract from the work of the people entering.

they did it recently on that dance show - getting all of the contestants to do a routine to the same song. by the third repetition of the song I wanted to smash the television....

[hayd]

Has anyone been able to download the sullivan vizual entry? I'm really keen to see it.

I've seen almost all the others and Exposure, Simonleshank and DemoReel have to be my favorites, followed closely by Alchimia, Beeksma and Gilly101. The production quality, riding and music choice are excelent. I cant stop watching them.

[sullivanvizual]

Hey Hayd ,
I am hoping our entry we be up on rip.tv asap ! Its all suspended camera shots from Blackhill MTX ! ....... sulviz07

[komodorider]

Holy shit i love the WBROWN entry those guys rip and they are young as well plus there editing and filming skills are sweet as.

peace

[nickmann]

hey does anyone know the name of the song in beno66 clip. Thanks.

[Plow King]

Go my video! It's winning the least views award.

[Viv92]

Has anyone been able to download the sullivan vizual entry? I'm really keen to see it.

I've seen almost all the others and Exposure, Simonleshank and DemoReel have to be my favorites, followed closely by Alchimia, Beeksma and Gilly101. The production quality, riding and music choice are excelent. I cant stop watching them.

Is there something I'm missing?:confused:

On the three pages on Rip TV Simonleshank, DemoReel and Beeksma are no where to be seen.

[jda]

Scott hasen't finished loading all of them up yet. As he said its a big job.

[hayd]

Is there something I'm missing?:confused:

On the three pages on Rip TV Simonleshank, DemoReel and Beeksma are no where to be seen.

I downloaded them from HERE (http://forums.farkin.net/showpost.php?p=1147677&postcount=214)

[Big_Chief]

Just watched a few of the videos.

Props goes to Tristan, Gluey and exposure (whoever made it).

But in my opinion i felt that Tristans Film did appear a little repetitive and i didnt particularly like the music choice in Glueys film.

Other than that all ace films.

[Gluey_trails]

Just watched a few of the videos.

Props goes to Tristan, Gluey and exposure (whoever made it).

But in my opinion i felt that Tristans Film did appear a little repetitive and i didnt particularly like the music choice in Glueys film.

Other than that all ace films.

Don't let tristan hear about my music in my video sucking

[Viv92]

I downloaded them from HERE (http://forums.farkin.net/showpost.php?p=1147677&postcount=214)

Cheers mate.

With the new ones, looks like this is going down to the wire. I could not pick a winner at all.

[stinkyboy69]

-rw-r--r-- 1 ftp ftp 20064437 Oct 8 18:55 Stinkyboy69.mov, Thats me scott. I saw it in your single post and i also pm you

[simonleshank]

the link to the videos needs to be on the home page or on the first page of this thread.

[stinkyboy69]

There here http://www.rip.tv/ScottFarkin/videos/

[Richo 18]

Just watched a few of the videos.

Props goes to Tristan, Gluey and exposure (whoever made it).

But in my opinion i felt that Tristans Film did appear a little repetitive and i didnt particularly like the music choice in Glueys film.

Other than that all ace films.

I agree about tristan's being a little repetitive, but Gluey's music was tasty!

I never listen to that sort of stuff (right now I've gone from Hendrix to Zeppelin) but that was really cool. Props to you. Oh and the camera work was fucking insane too Gluey.

[Jibboholic]

Hello!

-rw-r--r-- 1 ftp ftp 9787338 Oct 6 01:30 Jibboholic.mov

thats mine!
is there something wrong, cause it`s not on rip.tv!

[nickmann]

yeh my mates vid isn't up their either?

[Scott]

Have to appologise I'm taking so long guys. Having a shit of a time getting all these videos up. Never knew it'd be this complicated!

[24alpha]

Have to appologise I'm taking so long guys. Having a shit of a time getting all these videos up. Never knew it'd be this complicated!

You efforts are appreciated Scott!

[Woffa]

Have to appologise I'm taking so long guys. Having a shit of a time getting all these videos up. Never knew it'd be this complicated!

Maybe next time you need some little Farkin helpers :D... Its all part of learning. Next time it will be heaps easier im sure. Your efforts are greatly appreciated Scott, this couldn't have happened without you, so i think every Farkin member is greatful. Keep up the good work mate...

Cheers,

[Scott]

ok I think I have them all up.... can everyone verify theirs is up?

[wbrown]

Mine is up but not working?? It only shows half of the actual video

[Gluey_trails]

Mine is up but not working?? It only shows half of the actual video

Works for me

[Scott]

Mine is up but not working?? It only shows half of the actual video

Can you try and upload your video directly to RipTv and post the link here.

[wbrown]

Ok its up. To view it I think this is the link:

http://www.rip.tv/video/watch/4446/

Will

[sullivanvizual]

Hey Scott yeh mine is up thanks ..........sullivanvizual

[24alpha]

Mines there.

[maca192]

damn, the parts in mine which are ment to be a plain black screen have been cut out and the clip after it just stretches over it????.
if you cant fix it..dont worry about it. thanks

[Aaron547]

Can you try and upload your video directly to RipTv and post the link here.

hey scott do you reckon I could do this to? their completely identical videos ofcourse, just the aspect ratio in this one isn't stuffed up.
http://www.rip.tv/video/watch/3948/
cheers. good luck with everything else.

[RacelineBoy]

The guy riding in <b>jda</b> movie is a pinner!!!
That the best short mtb clip i have seen in sometime.

[simonleshank]

YEAH, First year round course there are problems... pretty much celebrating the fact that somewhere in the compression after I uploaded my video, the audio track has moved along about one second... pretty much makes my vid about 0.1 as good as it was.

Still proud to be a farkin.net video comp pioneer !!!


AAAAAAARRRRRRRR!!!!!!!!!!!!!


Thanks for your efforts anyhow Scott. Cheers.

[Plow King]

Alright I've been away for a week so whats the dillio, has voting started?

[Dug]

Better get the load balancing sorted on your servers and up the bandwidth. Me thinks this will be Huge..
Keep the ideas comming.....

[DJninja]

So, What's going on? Have they been judged yet?

[kill_switch]

i dont mean to nag but what exactly is happening.

Brent

[trouble]

Yer I feel the same way, whats happening but then again scott, jonny ect. are all on holidays too guys...give them a break and happy NYE

[jda]

Bump ;)





......

[tupper]

and another bump, Whats going on fellas! holidays are nearly over!

[Scott]

ok guys.... things are still in action, though the holidays etc put a massive hand brake on proceedings. Judging will be finished at the end of next week, so we'll have a top 5 up that you can all vote on after then.

[gilly101]

ok guys.... things are still in action, though the holidays etc put a massive hand brake on proceedings. Judging will be finished at the end of next week, so we'll have a top 5 up that you can all vote on after then.


YAY:D... i almost forgot i even entered that comp:o

[tupper]

YAY:D... i almost forgot i even entered that comp:o

Haha,
Hope to see the voting in the next few days.
Some of the videos entered were fantastic!
Props to all that entered!

[Gluey_trails]

Any News????

[trouble]

agreed....any news scott you said about a week...about like 3weeks ago. im not complaining just queering as I understand judging would be pretty long and hard....hang in there guys

[zanecaldera]

is there going to be a round 2?
like a comp this year?

[Gluey_trails]

is there going to be a round 2?
like a comp this year?

It does say Annual, although it could be just some massive effort and Scott & Co. couldn't be farked to do it again.

[poppa_johns]

hope it does happen again

[Scott]

Hi guys

sincerest apologies. Finding time the last couple months has been a nightmare. I'm attempting to hand the reigns of this over to one of the other admins/moderators so that it can be rounded up in a reasonable time frame. Yes there most certainly will be another competition for 2008, and yes it will be much more streamlined than this one. It's been a learning curve. All I ask is that you guys hang in there a little while longer.

[Gluey_trails]

Hi guys

sincerest apologies. Finding time the last couple months has been a nightmare. I'm attempting to hand the reigns of this over to one of the other admins/moderators so that it can be rounded up in a reasonable time frame. Yes there most certainly will be another competition for 2008, and yes it will be much more streamlined than this one. It's been a learning curve. All I ask is that you guys hang in there a little while longer.

No need to say Sorry! Thank you for giving all of us this opportunity.

[Woffa]

Exactly Scott, you have done a great job in getting everything organised for the competition. No need to say sorry at all, everyone is greatful for your effort and devotion to Farkin. This will be a learning curve, but im sure it will lead to a bigger and even better competition in the future. So hang in there guy's.

All the judging of your videos has been done by me. Just have to wait on the other judges for their ratings....

Cheers,

[jda]

I'm already working on my entry for 2008 :)

[Elbo]

We just bought a secondhand camera a few months ago, so expect an entry from myself this year!

[Scott]

Just waiting on two more judges scores.

[24alpha]

Do the judges accept bribes......and do they prefer money, booze or women?
:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D :D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D

[sam_westy]

Do the judges accept bribes......and do they prefer money, booze or women?
:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D :D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D

probley all 3

[trouble]

Any news scott? And I agree come on judges own up....or you saying you dont like bribes?

[jda]

free bump :rolleyes:

[NeeBean]

this should be a good comp, abouts when will we find the winner?

[jimmy004]

I really want to see how this turns out:rolleyes:

hope there is some great footage in these films!:p

Cheers

[delboy1203]

Is the comp still running? The original brief was posted last year saying "You have just short of three months to make a video...". That was on July 5th.

:confused:

[olly1oo6]

this should be a good comp, abouts when will we find the winner?

Sometime next century by the looks of it;)

[Scott]

and that century is here!

[kemmis]

and that century is here!


Good to hear. Will there be another comp this year.

[stinkyboy69]

If it here then where's the results???

[olly1oo6]

If it here then where's the results???

There's always one:p

[UniFreerider]

when is the video comp this year?