1. Quote misconstrued, Smeagol was referring to narrative and design when he said concept- in your case this would be the idea of a musical.
2. Way to look like a jerk.

I really enjoyed your film, but I would have probably placed it in exactly the same spot it is now, were I to decide what ranking it should get- the concept just doesn't support the technical aspects.

ANYHOW congrats to the winners, and all the other entrants as well. You all made very entertaining films, and I had great fun watching them. Excellent work!

I will.

... or that a higher rating implies we think it's a fantastic film.

Remember, half a film's score was based on whether or not there was anything avant-garde about it. I honestly thought that Crime Stories was the most entertaining film in the contest, but I didn't see anything about it that hadn't been done before in other brickfilms. Hence the lower placement.

Uh, that was just the trailer contest. Not the actual thing.

You have misinterpreted what I said -- I just said that the *concepts* (as in the story ideas/scripts) were not something one would spend months writing.  I feel somewhat vindicated by the fact that several people have pointed out here that you quite clearly misinterpreted it.  That was in response to somebody saying people spent so long coming up with their ideas that they had very little time to make the film, whereas the concepts in this contest, regardless of how good they are, would simply not take months to develop and write, because they're simple.  Animated bricks set to music.  A making-of documentary about a Zombie movie.  A rock music video about a bank robbery.  I know you spent months making your film, and it shows!

You did get the second highest technical score and as the comments said we found your entry to be the most technically impressive.  Admittedly it didn't get the 1st highest technical score, but that was because we felt like Nick Durron's technical work was so close to perfection, even if it wasn't as ambitious, this gave it a slight edge.

It's unfortunate that you felt the need to resort to insults.  We loved your film but all three judges concluded that we couldn't justify a higher concept score for it (though I had pushed for a slightly higher one).  We knew you would take offense to a largely positive, but mixed opinion of your film, because you have in the past, but I'd hoped if we were honest enough about the fact that we were impressed with your entry maybe we could avoid being cursed at.  I guess not.

-Sméagol, whose horse is THOROUGHLY OFFENDED

Hey, some of these people put a lot of work into their entries, if they want to offer a bit of constructive criticism that's fine by me, and sort of expected.  As long as it's not, you know, misinterpreting something I said and then insulting me for it.

I think it did draw a decent group of entrants we wouldn't have gotten otherwise, yes.  So we'll probably have a YouTube component in the next summer contest.

This was pretty much a one-time thing as far as having a theme this "out there," because we wanted to try to challenge people with a theme that would force creativity.

Though we haven't decided on next year's theme for certain yet, I'm confident it'll be a lot less controversial than this one. 

Haven't really worked too much out yet, plus there's still the possibility of a smaller contest in September to get figured out.