Sapphire Movie Contest Winners Announced

The Sapphire Movie Contest at TEK9 has now been concluded, all the votes have been counted up by the community and all the panelists have had their say and the top 5 prize winners have been announced, they are as follows:

PureMind by Ukraine Or1onUA (Sapphire RADEON HD 5550 + €250 CASH)
Megatech Body ID by Germany cho-media (Sapphire RADEON HD 5550)
SkyChase by Yugoslavia RavenTL (Sapphire RADEON HD 5550)
4th Copyleft by Italy Cla (Sapphire RADEON HD 5550)
5th The Expendables by Germany recqn (Sapphire RADEON HD 5550)
image: sapphire

As many of you know a handful of ET movies were entered into the competition, in which there were over 100 entries! One ET movie got into the top 20, which was "Woody and Nothing More" by Poland requem

The movie was voted as the 7th best movie by the group of panelist but was pushed down to joint 12th after the community votes were added in, which counted for 40% of the overall vote. congratulations to the top 5, requem and everyone that entered.

Full top 20 scores
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Puremind
Megatech Body ID
SkyChase
Copyleft
The Expendables
zEh hira stajl
MELLANN
Xen_Team Movie
Coloris 2
Python MoNti
MYSTERY
Delirium
Woody and Nothing More
The Gate Keepers
The Last Fight
euphoriaz
Demencia
Music is my Soul
Vinyl
Illusion
Body and Soul
Sensual Memories
dndcombo
Colours
UNDERWORLDPanel Rank
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16
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1Community Rank
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25
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22
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9
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1Overal Score
22.2
22
21.3
21.2
19.6
18.2
18
17.8
17.6
17
15.2
14.2
14.2
13.8
12
10.6
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8
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source: http://www.tek-9.org/news/the_sapphire_movie_contest_winners-3241.html?page=2
Comments
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It was voted as 7th best by the Admin Panel, blame the community for being the worst in voting for it.
from what I read, the admin panel pushed up, and down, any movies which had unbalanced community scores, check the other joint 12th movie to see the exact same thing happen ;) but the other way around.
Parent
Hmm... normally I'm into slow-paced 'arty' movies but 'Puremind' just seemed extremely boring to me :/

Congratulations though.
pure bullshit letting a community with an unbalanced quote of codplayers, etplayers etc. rate movies...
Words of wisdom...
Parent
Watched the top 5... And #3 was the best imo :o
fuck a fragmovie that's more about "how many effects, random shit and edit can I put in it" than about frags

closed after 90 sec

edit: and m8y, if those are the countries the moviemakers come from, then the 3rd guy must have travelled through time, there is no yugoslavia
same as source. I have no idea what he would be now.
Parent
First movie was hmm boring ..
second was pretty cool
third was .. counter wtf
I couldn't even see the enemy's at the first place, so didn't like it. Liked the 2nd place intro and 3rd place overall making. Surprised that not only cod4 movies are in top 5 !
They should have never let such a community vote based on the amount of COD players ...
cod movies are so fuckin boring
lmao the gate keepers that low
3rd one was fantastic :o
maybe its becuz i dont play cod but whats so super about that 1st movie?
There's nothing... It's simply boring shit with no creativity. And I like most CoD4 movies.
Parent
2 me it just look like a demo or something without any editing
Parent
Well, there's slow-motion... and some text. A pure gameplay video would be better.
Parent
there u got a point :D
Parent
wow gz woody :)
first ones sucks, wtf
that video what won is shit :(
The only good ones on that list of the top 5 were the Warsow movie and the TF2 movie (Copyleft and Megatech) the CoD4 movie that won it was boring, nothing really going for it in my opinion apart from looks (which I thought all the Quake movies such as Coloris and The Gate Keepers had more of) even the frags were pretty boring... I thought that Copyleft deserved number 1 over the CoD movie ;)
My thoughts exactly, maybe it's because I've been playing a lot of TF2 lately, but I still think it was pretty awesome! :D
Parent
just happy we got that far in a cod community :)
Enjoyed the WSW movie, that was about it. COD4 one sucks imho
Icecrust would have won it by far if he had entered with "Fumble : the minimovie".
thats why wolfenstein is dead
Wow, just watched the first one and if this became first, I can only imagine how shit the others in the list are ;d
First one is utterly shit.
rofl @ the winner, is that supposed to be called a fragmovie? To me looks more like a slideshow combined with some typo scope hero frags - no scope no movie + the graphics were bad especially for the winner.. just INSANE how bad that movie is. :D
buttonbushers movie - that should be enough
Parent
dissapointing winner :\ woody's movie was easily better,,
lowskilled frags at winnermovie ..

he just added some after effects stuff and used a lot of slow motion + a slow song

sucked hard
Thanks to all who helped me with movie (Technical and mental sides). Next time will be better! <3
It's already massive :D I'm srsly curious how your next movie will turn out!
Parent
You will wait sooooooooooooo loooooooooong when I finally motivate to using Premiere Pro and AAE. :P
Parent
:<< What's Premiere Pro actually ? I'm only using AAE atm.
Parent
Premiere Pro is movie editing application (Like Vegas) also from Adobe company. I want learn that because I can import and edit AAE projects (Like from Photoshop, I don't need render files) there. =]
Parent
Aaaaah :) Well, depends on your moviestyle I think. If you like to work a lot with velocity etc, I'd choose vegas. But I don't have any experience with Premiere Pro, so I'm not sure if it might be better than vegas for it's velocity :)
Parent
Same here. I will se, what is better. :D
Parent
Hf then :d Lemme go on finding a nice song to sync on, have been trying to look up one that matches the first song for hours :D
Parent
In next project I wll use mainly electronic/industrial music (RTPN, Celldweller and others). I've got a lot of fast paced smg frags, rifles, spam etc. so I think it should be match with found songs (But I'm still seqarching 1-2 for creating flow between them). It depends of frags what you have but I'll risk and try out rapcore music(Rage Against The Machine etc.).
Parent
Well, I noticed today, I'm using exact the same song as in SkyChase :<
Parent
I'm trying avoid edit before used songs (Especially in known movies). But if you want use something similar, just check whole discography from this artist (Yes, I know, how much is it boring.). :)
Parent
Ah well, to lazy to re-edit all the previous bits, just gonna look up another song of Stan SB :D
Parent
try reading classes, it says ''movie contest'' not ill put some frags here and there and not edit the movie at all. wonder how the hell he managed to get 12th ranked
considering that i almost fall asleep while watching zeh winnar, rank 12 isnt that unreal
Parent
Tek-9, a cod community.. expected that a cod movie would win.
Dissapointed.
crossfire.nu, a ET community...I think if they make a movie contest with the same games obviously will win a ET movie. :)
Parent
ok only watched the first movie and i can say its utterly shit
Boring movies... But what can you expect from an editing contest! Fragmovie should be more about the frags not the editor. I really hope this trend changes in the future.

This movie is an exemple of what it should be. Simple, yet clear and enjoyable editing. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y98HaBstgV0
Really gr8 job by requem(m), just had the feeling that some bits were too fast/shaky/unclear... but other than that, clearly my ET top5 movie :)
cant say i agree with the #1 ... good sync, but same effect all over again? :m
haha the #1 movie gives the word crap a whole new meaning , i almost fell asleep watching those 3 minutes .
Polandrequem´s movie was very well made i enjoyed it a lot gj :)
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