The podcast is up on Anime Pulse. It's right there at the top of the main page. The second half of the podcast is the interview with Adam, and he provides quite a few details on the whole thing with AnimeFF.
I promised you all the reason why I asked you those questions last time. There was a good reason for them. See, I asked you those questions to make you aware of the criteria in which you judge movies yourselves. I asked, because I have a bit of a challenge for you all relating to them. I want you to take the criteria you're now aware of using, and next time you see a movie, any movie, apply your criteria to it, then write up a review for me. Don't think for a moment I'm going to ask you all to do something I won't do myself, in the next few days sometime, I'll have my first anime film review ready for presentation. I have to put things in order with it first, otherwise I'd have had it up today.
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the real yojimbo
I do the best I can and deliver the information as I become aware of it.
We're similar that way, I don't like to see a point-by-point plot summary in a review, it's just supposed to be a little blurb. A Ten scale is also easier to guage the subtleties of the reviewer's evaluation process, and doesn't need half steps. The technical information is always great to have too.
KanuckGrrl
The links is up there.
You'll notice in my review (not posted yet), I have one, maybe two sentences as the plot overview, that's all it's really supposed to be. The idea is not to spoil the whole film for the review consumers, the idea is to share an opinion of the overall impression of a movie, and let the reader decide to go see it on their own. Of course in the case with mine, it'll be a matter of getting the DVDs, because well, most anime films don't come out in theatres, and many are at least a couple years old. Technical information is always a good indicator of a serious evaluator, I learned that in theatre, but there should be room for a little editorial comment on the film as a whole too, because the ewmotive impact of a film is certainly something worth communicating to the audience.
Angel Slayer:
Good luck with that, 30 minutes to memorize a speech (whatever happened to notecards?) is brutal.
Kiki-tink
Yeah, and the real twist with all this is, Jeff's gone and done the very things he was so critical of others doing. Talk about a hypocrite, that's the definition right there.
death alchemist03
And I saw someone else actually mention the digging one's own grave sentiment in one of the comments, so that seems to be a growing opinion.
Since I don't really go out to the movies all that often, I rarely pay attention to reviews myself, that's why this whole project is difficult for me. Because I don't know what I'm really doing.
timechaser
Well, I did the homework on Copyright, and there's good news on that front. If sketchrob were to register the copyright on that artwork before March 20 (that's the 3 month anniversary of date of publication), then, not only would the courts consider that Prima Facie evidence of the copyrights validity, but it would also mean that statutory damages and attorney's fees would be available in court actions.
I asked if anyone was looking into possible fraud charges against this guy in a comment, but no one's answered, so maybe that means they are. Technically though AnimeFF didn't falsely represent themselves as a charity. The Susan G. Komen Foundation does in fact exist(Note it's also listed as the Susan B. Komen foundation on some websites). AnimeFF's mission statement was that they were going to donate the proceeds from the cons (there were supposed to be more than one) to that foundation, they had the lofty goal of $250,000 if I recall the their no longer functioning website correctly. I'm going to look into the fraud and false representation angles as best I can over the internet, just to see how this thing can play out. It also explains why he (Jeff) hasn't turned up to sue anyone he may have threatened either, because if he did come out hiding, he just might have to face criminal charges.
I'm not too fond of plot spoilers in reviews either. I've said it already once today, but I think a plot overview should be only one or sentences, that's an overview. Anything more detailed is usually too much. I think in terms of numbering, I prefer the 1-10 with no half steps (you don't really need a _.5 if you got from 1-10) myself, because that gauges the revviewer's process as much as it does the movie. And having a feel for how the reviewer rates things is a good thing sometimes.
I just got finished listening to it, you do want to hear it.
Thanks for the compliment, I took all those photos myself, can't get a night shot like that anymore, they put a big old spotlight on the statue, bah, I like the gold look. You were born in 81? That's neat too.
beyblader
It (this AnimeFF, Jeff Borncamp thing) is a nasty quagmire of greed, filth, and corruption, and feel free to quote me on that. I'll keep the information coming because I hate to go back on a promise.
Music Review is outside my realm of expertise. Generally with music, you like it or you don't no matter what other people say about it. I like the oldies, Culture Club, and Barry Manilow, things some people have ridiculed me for, but it's good music to these ears.
Duly noted.
I haven't seen that movie yet, so I can't say anything about it specifically, but Critics are usually unkind to good movies, and they find the most ridiculous stuff to call the best sometimes (Titanic, anyone?). At least they got it right with Grave of the Fireflies.
BASH
It's getting to be nuts, and I don't mean the good, silly nuts either. I'm glad to keep the info coming. There's nothing like facing a situtation and not knowing what's going on with it.
Some people like more details with the plot, that's what's neat about the review process. All the different types of reviews to read and see. I don't like those details because if I knew them ahead of time for some of the films I've watched, I probably wouldn't have watched them, and missed great works as a result.
Shireishou
I don't think so, I don't go out of my way to read film reviews from other countries myself. A lot of reviewers do talk over their audience with big words, and that defeats the purpose of the review process in my opinion. Yeah, a rating system without a set of objective criteria is nothing more than a number really, it doesn's say much.
