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12/08/04: I have a question. When someone posts a comment/ballot, etc., is everyone else notified by email as I am? I think it's an option you can turn on in profile. Just curious.
12/01/04: FIRST ROUND POSTED in total. 1967, 1978, 1989, 1990, 2001, 1924, 1935, 1946, 1957
posted by Anonymous @ 11:59 AM
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9 Comments:
moving the discussion on voting categories here :
I agree with Mre about merging B&W and Color cinematography, and electing the best in each format that came out the highest in the overall votes.
There is always trouble with this category and some B&W films are simply skipped because lack of competition.
However I'd like to see a Camerawork award (move, lens, plans) category distincted from pure photography award(composition, light, texture, colors), even if most of the time the same person does both, their quality varies for each film.
Also I'd like to keep the number of awards to a manageable ballot. I don't know about you but it's rather difficult to get a meaningful idea of these details for enough films in each years, save for few memorable films. I'wouldn't be able to vote for Costumes, Make Up (better all included in Art direction), Song, Score, sound editing...
Most of the time supporting performances are difficult enough to figure.
one suggestion is to merge male/female performance categories for gender competition, even if it means extanding nominations to 20 names. Maybe could use same procedure as with Cinematography described above.
Decade Awards : I'd like to see a Cinematography category. btw, I have replaced Composer in the 20ies by Cinematography in my ballot, and added cinematography in my 30ies ballot.
I like the Doc and Short awards too, even if it might be difficult to give 5 nominations each decade...
I really just want to start playing, so I'm closing in on a final decision on the system we'll use. No on mixed actors, but you'll all be able to tell who had the most points, and would thus be the overall winner. No on Camera Movement as a category. That is very much cinematography. I don't see why we'd want to combine b/w and color cinematography when most people do that anyway. I seperate them myself.
I've never had a problem judging technical aspects of a film like makeup, costume, and art/set direction. In fact, it's the stuff that I notice first and foremost and am capable of comparing moreso than performances or overall film quality. So I'm going to keep those.
NO ONE HAS TO FILL OUT EVERY CATEGORY. JUST DO THE ONES YOU'D LIKE
Decade awards: Ok on Cinematographer
No. You must use 100 points in each category regardless of the number of nominees you have.
that means if you enter a minimal ballot of 5 nominations they must all be at 20pts (max weight for a weaker ballot) to add up to 100... so no weight balance anymore.
Jesse has a point there.
I don't see it being very likely that anyone will be able to contain themselves to five nominations. :)
Ok, how's this:
100 point ranked BEST PICTURE
16 to 1 ranked BEST DIRECTOR,
BEST ACTOR,
BEST ACTRESS,
BEST ENSEMBLE,
BEST S. ACTOR,
BEST S. ACTRESS,
b/w & C CINEMATOGRAPHY,
ORIGINAL SCORE
O & A Screenplay
EDITING
Non weighted categories, most votes wins:
SOUND EDITING
SONG
ART DIRECTION / DESIGN
COSTUME
MAKEUP
I'll post the revised and ABSOLUTELY final rules by tomorrow. I'll follow the suggestion that the big categories get points (the 100 point system seems to work), while the lil categories we'll just play straight and thus make the whole process more smooth.
You could do 1967 (it was the final year from the sixties we did on RT), or wrap around and do 1968. Of course, you are completely in charge of that decade, so you can actually do whatevah you'd like.
As far as posting: Go to www.blogger.com, log in using your blogger ID and Pass, and you should get into the Posting screen (I believe I hadn't had you marked as admin, which would have been a problem!) Then, click on Create New Post, do worry about formatting, cos I totally shanghai that and make it look uniform. heh.
I'm going to start bugging/buggering our members (we actually have 13 signed up, but I don't know where they could be!), since it looks pretty grim. The advantage of the No Schedule is also a disadvantage for instant gratification.
Cool. You can post the year before you post the ballot, since the ballot goes into the comments section
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