Zippy8 wrote:This
is a little sad. And this is
me talking.
I just knew I could rely on you to bite on that one
Zippy8 wrote: So the entries that were accepted were OK, according to your statistical analysis, but what about the ones I didn't let through.
Obviously I have no idea, but those who had an entry rejected and you are in the best position to judge whether there is a problem.
Zippy8 wrote: I, for one,
don't want to go to a hard rule that exiting the frame means your video isn't accepted. I know the pain of spending time shooting a VF entry, thinking you've got a nice, representative bit of flying (for once !) then discovering that the kite wasn't in the frame between 0:48:17 and 0:48:19
I'd rather take a
freestyle approach of knowing when too much is too much, without having to define it to two decimal places. Entrants should
always consider flying off frame to be A Very Bad Thing.
But that's just my view and not the final word.
Mike.
No problem with any of that. I agree with it being as non-prescriptive as possible, and to reiterate something I posted earlier, I think it’s about right as we have it now. So long as everyone has approximately the same understanding of the “grey area” then there isn’t a problem.
So maybe a pertinent question is, having seen the accepted entries, do any of the people who had a video rejected feel that it was harsh or do they now have the same understanding of the rules as you and everyone else? Perhaps a way to judge how easy it is to pitch your entry correctly, is to know how many videos had to be rejected. If it’s a big number, then maybe the rules need a bit of clarification, but if it’s only a couple then I’d say it’s a non-issue.
As I recall, someone (can’t remember who
) once said:
we will take a "you don't follow the rules but I like your style" approach to the whole affair. Take care not to slip into "ah now, don't push it" and trouble will ensue if you encroach on "right, you're taking the piss".
And I’d say this is spot on… Keep doin’ what you’re doin’ Mike
[statto mode] To answer Tom’s question, of the 24 entries, 10 contained an OOF. [/statto mode]