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Rules

Please read all the rules before submitting, there are seperate rules for challenges

1. Each round is open until 10 videos have been submitted.

2. Each vidder can submit 1 video.

3. There is no size limit.

4. Please make sure the video is streaming, and send me a direct link to the streaming video.

5. Please link back to my website once you submit (if you own a website)

6. No horror movies allowed. All horror and slash within the accepted TV shows and movies are allowed

7. Mild sexual content is allowed but no full nudity or porn.

8. Do not enter videos containing stolen clips. If you do you will be banned for submitting any more videos.

9. No slideshow

10. If your video doesn`t win an award you can re-enter it one more time.

11. Tag me once you`ve submitted. This is very important because if you don`t, then I won`t know that you submitted and I won`t include your submission.

12. You can pick 4 categories for each video, if you pick more than 4 I reserve the right to remove them, if you add less, I reserve the right to add more.

13. If you have entered your video into a category with too few entries, your video will be carried forward to the next round. You can still submit a new video for the new round even if you video was carried forward.

14. Secret word for round 12: Castiel



ACCEPTED FANDOMS:
These are the shows/movies I know and watch and feel I would best be able to judge.


TV shows:

Angel the series
Buffy the vampire slayer
Bones
Castle
Chuck
Charmed
CSI: NY, miami and las vegas
Criminal minds
Desperate housewives
ER
Falling skies
Friends
Firefly
Ghost whisperer
Grey`s anatomy
Gossip girl
How I met your mother
Hawaii five-o
JAG
Jericho
Legend of the Seeker
Moonlight
No ordinary family
One Tree Hill
Ringer
Rizzoli and Isles
Supernatural
Scrubs
Smallville
The big bang theory
The mentalist
Numb3rs
The vampire diaries
The secret circle
The lying game
X-files


Movies:

Harry Potter
Moulin Rouge
Pirates of the Caribbean
P.S I love you
Phantom of the opera
Pearl Harbor
Serenity
The Lord of the Rings
Twilight saga
Titanic
The Chronicles of Narnia
Plus every movie with Sarah Michelle Gellar, David Boreanaz and Emily Deschanel.



CATEGORIES:

Best Action: I want to see bombs going off, guns blazing, car chases, ass-kicking

Best Romance: I want to see love

Best Drama: show me an emeotional rollercoaster. one second your character/characters are happy, the next their world is falling apart. Or one minute they are all alone the next they have fallen in love and their life has turned around

Best Comedy: make me laugh

Best Angst: Show me sad and depressing

Best AU: Show me a different story than what was told on TV or in the movie and make it believeable

Best Family: The characters don`t have to be related by blood but they do have to have that family bond. Like on Btvs, Buffy, Xander, Willow and Giles where a family even though none of them were related, or on Ats, Angel, Cordy, Wesley, Gunn and Fred had that family bond. Then there is my all time favorite TV family, the Winchesters who are related by blood.

Best Villain

Best Hero/heroine: A character who in the face of danger and adversity or from a position of weakness, display courage and the will for self sacrifice in order to save others.

Best Conventional Couple: All videos containing two humans of opposite sex or who species, like two vampires or two demons.

Best Unconventional Couple: humans with vampires, ghosts, demons, angels, or same sex couples

Best Storyteller: show me the story without needing to explain it, show me a beginning and an end

Best Words of Song Used: follow the lyrics the best you can

Best Overal Use of Song: follow the beat or feel of the song, if the song is slow use slow moving clips, if the song is fast paced, use fast paced scenes or speed them up.

Best Special Effects: zooming in and out, overlays, motion tracking, cookie cutting, flashes, split screens.

Best POV: you have to show me 1 characters POV, I need to see what they see, and feel what they feel. If you choose to show Sam from Dean`s POV you can`t use scenes where Dean can`t see Sam

Best Crossover: Damon comes to Sunnydale and meets Buffy, or Faith stops in a bar and meets Dean. Show me a crossover between two different TV shows or movies

Best Episodic: only use scenes from one episode

Best Character

Most Tearful: very simple, make me cry, I am a very emotional person so this is really easy

Sexiest

Most Unique

Next to these, there are also Judge`s choice award, which will be given to the video I feel is the best of all in that round.

And there is honorable mentions which is given to videos that have scored high in many categories but not quite won an award, since I only have max 2 winners in each category, honorable mention will be given to the videos that would have been 3d place in several categories.