Announcing - NEW for COL 2008...

There's always been talk about allowing longer video clips and other sections etc (well there's always talk about the should and should not's for COL! ) So we listen and learn and investigate possibilities. and now we can actually do something about it without breaking everyone's bank!

Double layer DVD printing technology is now sufficiently stable and cost effective that we will be able to produce a one disk COL DVD of extended duration for not much extra cost. This allows us to open up new categories and also provide the option for increased duration clips. So we have:
http://www.homeofpoi.com/articles/video_compilation.php

New category: CoL4Kids - for the under 13's. Not a competition, but a chance to show everyone what you can do and learn and improve. We hope this section will encourage the next generation of object manipulators.

Amended rule around duration - new maximum of 5 minutes. This is a reasonably arbitary number (any number would be arbitary), but we feel we need to put "a" limit and 5 mins is as good as anything as a starting point. We don't want to encourage looooong video clips just for the sake of filling up the time so the rule says something about a target average of 3 minutes per clip and tell us your reasons if you go above 3 mins.

We've been listening and thinking about the other suggestions for new sections, professionals/amateur, hoops/juggling/staff/poi etc... at this stage, like some have said, we don't see how these can be readily distinguished between and the lines will always be blurry, so we prefer to keep everyones options open by having the one "general" category until such a time as other sections become more obviously in need of seperation from a general category.

Your continued feedback is always welcome and will help shape the future. The Rules are not fixed in stone so please, kick this around and let's see if anything needs changing...


Oh, and in case you hadn't noticed before, I wrote a few pages about the history and philosophies of CoL into what I optimistically call an "e-book". There's some information gaps (even Malcolm's brain doesn't hold all the info !) so any feedback to complete and improve it would be appreciated. http://www.homeofpoi.com/articles/e-book_Circles-of-Light.pdf

George

If Josh comes to Spunout can I spank him and Katinca?

please do! :-D
but in fairness, some of Malcolm's rules were kind of "unwritten rules" ...

Totally

I'm planning an entry for CoL 2008: how far are we allowed to take this 5 minute rule? i.e we have plans for a 3 part performance, to sort of 'tell a story' with costumes, variety of props, performance styles, camera angles, etc: would around 5 mins be ok then?

I'm planning one as well...

As I do every year *sigh*

is it that time of year again?

Time for baiting durbs about making a video?

Time for bated breath over who gets off their ass to make an entry?

Time for worrying about when and where and how to make a COL video? It seems like the controversy has barely cleared over the last one!

Woohoo!

Not quite time for looking back and remembering just how crap you were when you made the video and how much better you are now... never mind thoughts of how much better you could have made it with just a little bit more effort...

No really, this time...

Anyway, you've entered one now - i'm sure that means you can sit back on your laurels until CoL 10 (Not that I'm trying to remove competition )

its not worth you entering durbs. they don't let people from surrey win.

Gosh, that deadline's creeping up ain't it.
Should probably go and do some filming at some stage....

there's a deadline?

better get editing then....

Dear orgamanizers...

Would you accept a link to an uncompressed .avi / .mpg file?

File size would be pretty darn large - but still quicker than post

oooh yea that would be good.....

Or even a zipped/split file..?

Haven't got a final file size yet, but i'm guessing close to 5gb? (Non-HD uncompressed vid w/ stereo 44khz sound approx 3 mins?)

e-mail the link to me Durbs and we'll test it out. Then we can say if it's an idea that we can go with or not.

I understand this would be good for entrants to save postage/courier cost and essentially extend the deadline a little more but may end us costing us excessively for download bandwidth.
We'll still need to cut the file to disk for the editing process so for us it will be more cost and effort than currently, but let's test it out as there may be benefits I haven't thought of.

Cool - my video won't be ready for a while yet, but yeah, I can see that if everyone did this you'd get silly bandwidth usage

woo hoo! I finished my entry for this year over the weekend. I think it's better than my last entry video-wise...the skills on display I'm not so sure

whereas my beautiful snowy tape has become corrupted