"Make the Cut" Judging ... THOUSANDS of submissions ... how?
I submitted my entry last night after days and nights of heavy work. Fingers crossed.
I asked Jason Levine on Twitter (@Beatlejase) how many entries had been submitted ... and at 2PM ET Saturday he said:
"Don't have exact number, but at last check it was in the thousands!
I find this a bit overwhelming. How exactly are the judges going to watch 100 or more hours of the same song over and over? The rules say "All submitted Entries will be judged by a panel of expert judges (“Judges”) selected by Sponsor in its sole discretion" ... and the blog says "evaluated by a panel of luminary judges, who will select one ultimate winner to receive the $25,000 Grand Prize. Judges include members of the band, Academy Award winner Angus Wall, who edited films like Fight Club and Vinnie Hobbs, a music video editor who works with Kendrick Lamar and Kanye."
Does this mean that the 'expert judges' are going to watch ALL thousands of entries? All together? Or will they divide them up?
"Thousands" x 3.5 minutes = Hundreds of hours — and they're supposed to be put up the final 25 in a week!
Or is Adobe going to divide them up amongst a group of 'reviewers' who will mark each one as Yes/No/Maybe before passing them on to the judges?
Also, in this (quite interesting) YouTube video where Jason chats with the video's director for 2 hours, Jason promised that they would watch every single entry.
My fear is that my entry will get completely lost in the pile, as it gets fast forwarded by some bleary-eyed intern at Adobe who's been sitting there for 20 hours straight watching the same 3.5 minutes of the same song hundreds of time.
I also find it odd that the email address for MakeTheCutSupport is a Gmail address (though they responded to my questions very quickly) and not an Adobe email ... almost like they had to whip it up last minute and were overwhelmed with the response...
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