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Premiering Vidshows

The vid submissions deadline for Premieres & It Surrounds You is Sunday, November 26th.

Premieres

The Premieres show is the highlight of the video track at FanWorks! Vids sent to this show must not have been released anywhere previously - at other cons, as online posts, or to any audience larger than your betas / cheerleaders. Premieres is all-new, with every vid making its debut to the con audience.

Variations: It Surrounds You

Variations is a showcase of premiering vids made for a specific theme. The theme for 2023 is It Surrounds You.

A house, a hotel, a car, a spaceship, a kitchen, an office, a battlefield, a forest, an ocean, a city, a galaxy – vids about places, settings, environments. You can focus on the setting itself, how people relate to it, how it brings together or divides a community, any aspect you want.

This vidshow is also open to non-premiering vids. If the show runs over time and we can't show all submitted vids, premieres will be prioritized. (Or, if there are a lot of non-premiering submissions, we may have separate vidshows for premiering and non-premiering vids.)

Submission Guidelines for Premiering Vidshows

Vidders can submit up to two vids per show, and can show up to three vids if a third is submitted by a co-vidder.

Vids must be your own work, with runtimes no longer than six minutes. (If you would like to submit something over six minutes long, email fanworksvidtech@gmail.com and we can discuss it!)

If you submit more than one vid, you'll be asked to either mark your vids as first or second priority, or to mark them as no priority. No priority means that if we can only place one vid in the main show, you don't care which one the VJs choose.

If Premieres and/or Variations run long, second priority attending vids and any non-attending vids may be rolled over to a separate Also Premiering vidshow to make their debut at a different time on the con schedule. If you send us a premiering vid, we'll make sure we show it at FanWorks! Just please be aware that your second priority or non-attending vid may debut in Also Premiering rather than the main shows if we run short on time.

As noted above, we're opening up Variations to non-premiering vids this year. If the show runs long, we may split the show off into premiering and non-premiering sections (if we have enough non-premiering vids to make a show), or we may prioritize premieres (if we don't have enough non-premiering vids to make a separate show).

Non-Premiering Shows

The submissions deadline for The Year in Vids, Mystery Box, and themed shows is Sunday, October 29th.

The Year in Vids

Vids released between August 1, 2022 and the submissions deadline. There are no thematic restrictions on this show; anything that was posted online, played at a con, etc. during that time counts.

Mystery Box

The VJ will create a themed vidshow using only vidder submissions. The vidshow theme itself depends entirely on what's submitted and could be anything, so vids on any theme are welcome!

Please keep in mind that not all vids uploaded for Mystery Box will show, as the goal is to create a relatively coherent show around a single theme. (Will such a thing be possible? We'll see!) For more info, check the submission guidelines below.

Themed Shows

Themed shows will be announced on October 15th.

Submission Guidelines for Non-Premiering Vidshows

The Year in Vids is an open submission show. Vidders can submit up to two vids, and can show up to three vids if a third is submitted by a co-vidder. If you submit more than one vid, you'll be asked to either mark your vids as first or second priority, or to mark them as no priority. No priority means that if we can only place one vid in the main show, you don't care which one the VJs choose. Vids should be no more than five minutes in length. (If you want to submit a vid longer than five minutes, please contact us at fanworksvidtech@gmail.com and we'll discuss it!)

Mystery Box is open for vid suggestions via the vid submission form. The VJ will choose from the uploaded vids to create a vidshow, so this doesn't have the same submission rules as a traditional submitted vidshow. Vidders can send in up to three vids for this show, but all of them will be considered the same priority; the idea is just to create a pool of vids for the VJ.

Themed vidshows are not open to submissions, as those vids are chosen by VJs. Please do not upload a vid to a themed show unless asked by the show's VJ to do so.