Dub Weekend
The EVVY Awards accepted submissions last week and, well, the entries just don’t duplicate and FedEx themselves to all of the industry-recognized judges.
Emersonians submitted a record 592 entries for consideration. This was the second year The EVVY Awards used an online submission system. And who was at the center of its insanity (and by insanity, I mean development)? Yeah, you know it was me. While my PHP programming was perfect, logistical issues that could not be planned for resulted in my editing the MySQL database directly. This meant that I was up for three days on call when EVVYs people did not accept entries correctly.
Thankfully, it’s over! I celebrated Monday with friends in the gorgeous Boston spring weather. More so, Emerson did not have classes because Monday is a holiday in Massachusetts and the Boston Marathon prohibits any productivity downtown.
Posted on Tuesday, April 19th, 2005 at 0:42.
you know, what’s funny is this: you call it “online submission”… but you can’t really submit online… you can just fill out the form online. Why, Jeremiah, why? :( I was so excited… and then I was sad.
I’m glad the weekend is over though :)
Filling out the forms online is the only aspect entrants see. The online system plays a larger role in the actual duplication and judging of entries. A few issues exist in puttin the entire process online.
The Emerson College Finance Office does not have any way for The EVVYs to receive online payments and we are not allowed to use third-parties payment (such as PayPal or my merchant account for credit cards).
Additionally, there is no way we could receive everyone’s entry media online. I would love for judges to just go online, download the entries, and rate them there, but people cannot even export a project properly to DVD. Do you really think that I could trust them to encode their projects well enough for online viewing?
The last part is the talent release signature. The online form will not accept an entry without the user agreeing to the talent release, but The Powers That Be want a physical signature. This is tacked to the bottom of the form identifying your media and payment anyway, so no biggie.