Hey there Jampot, I wouldn't want to give to much away for the contest I have planned, however I can tell you its unique in its own form, and it will bring a whole new challenge to brickfilmers, but also it will a whole lot of fun as well, so I won't get to much into it just yet.

I know this may be the case, that, there are a few contests running, and I do realize your contest, goes throughout this whole year, and into march next year which made me go and yea, no worries your advice doesn't bother me, as I understand what your saying however, if I do wait throughout the course of this year, and next, we both don't know how many contests may happen next year, possibly more than this year, and I think its fair that brickfilmers, get to have all different contests to be excited about, and try to enter as many as possible! what I will do is give this some time, for members, and active contestants some time, to work on current contests, and I will bring this contest into play sometime this year, maybe sooner than later, I also think having a variety of different contests is essential for brickfilmers, no one said they have to do all of the contests, just whichever ones they feel like or take an interest in, but I appreciate the concern.

Also really great sets, the first one, I never knew even existed lol!

All in all great sets, thanks!

Anyone else?

Kind regards,
Generalned

Last edited by Generalned (March 8, 2014 (05:58pm))

I personally think it may be pretty epic, so whatever big set you would recommend for first price/second medium sets, and small sets for third size let me know! And that is a very good point.

Generalned, I still think you should hold off for a while. The other thing you need to think about is whether you as a brickfilmer are ready/responsible enough to hold a contest. I held off for 6 years because I didn't know whether I could shoulder that, so you need to give it some serious thought as to whether you're experienced enough, both in terms of maturity and as a brickfilmer. Also, if people are putting effort into/waiting for other contests, will they have time for yours? I think check out Gentrystudios' thread, it was called 'Reaching the Limits', have a look at that and see what other people said. Don't make a contest for the sake of it.

As for prizes, Mixels are a great idea. The joints are fantastic for brickfilming; they're cheap and fun; collectible; and have some great parts. I have four now, and they've been so useful for props (and characters) for some of my upcoming animations. The ones coming out later in the year are even better, parts-wise (which, lets face it, is the main draws of the Mixels). There are purples ones, reuse of the Ninjago element swords, white minfig heads with a single eye on them, and loads of other cool stuff.

The Chima legend beast might also make good prices. Each one is only £8 but again, they have the joints and they're actually quite useful.

The Coast Guard set might not be the best prize, though. No offense Nemo, but I have the previous iteration of the set (which, aside from the lighthouse, is almost exactly the same) and the pieces are quite niche - you can't really use most of them for anything else, especially the main section of the boat.

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Before I get onto the on-topic reply, I just want to get on my hands and knees to plead...

Generalned, please please PLEASE go easy on the commas. Your posts are so very, very hard to decipher and understand at times. You, don't need, a comma, after, every couple, of, words. Break your text up into sentences - read your stuff out loud. Pause for a second or two at each comma and only take a breath when you stop on a period. It's quite a mouthful, right?

That's an ENTIRE paragraph made up of one huge run-on sentence. There's 24 commas in there! Let's fix that up a little.

That's already a lot easier to read and all I did was remove a bunch of commas and insert some periods/full stops. There's now 9 commas and the entire paragraph is made up of 15 sentences. The grammar still makes it a bit tough, so while I'm here I'll address that too.

Whew, now I can read and understand it!

Please note: I'm not making a big deal out of this to bully you or make you feel bad. I'm doing so because this is a problem with almost every post you make. Oftentimes I personally don't reply simply because it takes such a herculean effort to read and understand what you've typed. The real difference between you and gentry is that I can read his posts.

Now, moving past all that. If you want to run a contest, you have a right to do so. This being said, I think you might be getting ahead of yourself. Running a contest is no small task, though I'm sure you realise this. You pointed out that in gentry's case, "he didn't explain it well enough and that held against him". This is a fair comment. But considering the big ol' post I've just written in an effort to help improve the coherency of your own posts, I'm not so sure you'd be able to explain it any better.

It takes quite a bit more to run a successful contest than to put forward a challenge, promise some prizes then sit back and wait for the entries to come pouring in. As you saw in gentry's attempt, contests can and do crash and burn when there's a lack of interest. Take it from people who have been around, observing and running Brickfilming contests for quite a while - prizes alone, unless they're obscenely attractive (such as say, a DLSR camera), will not ensure interest and participation from the community.

My advice would be to be patient. Hang around and observe how other contests are run successfully (or not) before rushing off to host your own.

In regards to what makes good prizes in general... If we're talking about LEGO sets then the already-suggested Mixels are a good call due to how useful their parts are. And that would be a good rule of thumb - think about not just how cool a set is, but how useful its parts would be when actually making a film. If the prizes don't have to be LEGO, the same idea applies - how useful would the prize be in future endeavours? Things like high quality microphones, premium frame capture software and tiny lighting kits can be good incentives.

I think you should let the first place winner choose which set he want. Then the second place winner gets to choose from the two that are left over, and the third place winners gets the only set remaining.

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How about some from the friends theme?
For example: http://shop.lego.com/en-US/Heartlake-Ju … ng=listing

Sure the figures aren't the most useful but the sets have some interesting pieces and some neat colors.

Good suggestion Nemo! I just had a look at the set, and was surprised how many interesting pieces there were I especially want the pineapple as well! this could be possible for a third prize.

At first I was like gag, gag, gag. But then I looked closer at the set, and ya, their could be some useful pieces in their.

You said it.

i want 2 win the parisian resterant for third prize

(Someone just had to post this.)