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J-POP SUMMIT Festival 2012 is very excited to announce the second annual VOCALOID DANCE CONTEST! Last year with participation and support from Danceroid, the contest became one of the most memorable events of our festival. With this unstoppable momentum we hope to make VOCALOID DANCE CONTEST 2012 even more exciting!!
About the contest:
This contest is based on the internet phenomenon of dancers (and amateurs) dancing to a Vocaloid composition (digitally processed vocal technology), usually uploaded onto Youtube. Based on this method, contestants may film themselves dancing to a Vocaloid song, and all submissions are taken in as an uploaded online video format. The videos will be showcased on the J-POP SUMMIT FESTIVAL Facebook page. Here, all viewers can watch the videos, interact, and follow the submission updates. The chosen finalists will come to compete on the main stage at J-POP SUMMIT Festival 2012 (Saturday, 8/25). This year’s judges will decide who will take home the grand prize!
More:
Check out last year’s submissions on our facebook page HERE
The 2011 Champion Tiffany Fujii’s Dance with Danceroid
Participate:
You do not have to be a pro to join this contest. We rather look for your hard practiced moves and your enthusiasm! If you want to participate, please follow the strict guidelines below!
Rules:
Submit as:
You can be an individual or a group
Song or Composition:
Any Vocaloid music/songs apply (song length maximum 6 minutes)
Song file (.wav, .aiff, .m4a formats). If you are chosen to be the finalists, you need to prepare your own song file and email or send the song file to us (see below)** If song file is not delivered by due date, you are disqualified
Note: For song selections, please only use vocaloid composition originally composed as a vocaloid song.
Please DO NOT convert any given song into a vocaloid composition to use for our video submission.
Video Quality:
Video performance doesn’t need to be in your final costume, and video and sound quality is NOT at review for qualification
Video Title:
Must be consistent with “J-POPSUMMIT2012-VocaloidDanceContest-YOURNAME”
Video Submission Method:
Please email us your already uploaded Youtube link url to contest@j-pop.com with the subject “Vocaloid Dance Contest Entry”.
Please Include the following info inside the email:
- video link url (already uploaded by you tono Youtube)
- your name
- stage name (group name)
- age
- small bio of you or your group (where you are from, etc)
- official song name and song length info
- main contact’s cell phone number (for emergency use only)
*if you are a group, please include info for all members on the same email
Be Here:
Must be able to attend the festival in Japantown on Saturday, 8/25
Minors:
Under aged performers need parental permission letter & accompaniment of parent/guardian at Festival
10 Finalists will be chosen by J-POP programming committee, although we will view “comments” and the number of “likes” on the Facebook contest tab as reference as well.
Timeline and Due Dates:
July 20th 5pm PST – VIDEO SUBMISSION DEADLINE
July 24th 5pm PST – All finalists will be directly contacted and notified thru email
July 31st 5pm PST – Song files need to be delivered to us**
Beginning of August: Finalists will be publicly announced
** email your song file to Contest@j-pop.com, OR postal mail it on a CD to:
Mika Anami (J-POP SUMMIT 2012) 1746 Post Street, San Francisco, CA 94115
NO LATER THAN July 31st 5pm PST or you will be disqualified from the finals.
Frequently Asked Questions:
Got a question? Someone else may have already asked it! Please check out our FAQs first.
Q: My friend and I were thinking of doing a song by Gumi, would she count as a Vocaloid even though she’s a Megapoid?
A: Yes. GUMI is part of Yamaha’s Vocaloid2 synth application. As long as you can provide music and meet the rules.
Q: Would Galaxias! be acceptable?
A: Yes, as long as you can provide music and meet the rules.
Our Judges:
Kylee
A pop singer/songwriter born to an American father and Japanese mother. She is currently signed to Sony Music Japan and has become a fast-rising multi-cultural star that is developing a major following in both the U.S. and Japan. Kylee has been featured in the U.S. on the Today Show, and in 2011, she performed for an audience of more than 50,000 people at an official Major League Baseball game and also sang for President Barack Obama during a visit to her home state of Arizona earlier this year.
Mary Sano
Artistic director of the Mary Sano Studio of Duncan Dancing and she is a protégée of Mignon Garland, who founded the Isadora Duncan Heritage Society (IDHS) in San Francisco. She teaches and performs internationally, and has been invited to Greece, Hungary, Czech Republic, France, and Japan.
Michelle
An official announcer for niconico.com. She has been covering numerous amount of Anime and Japanese related conventions. Often times with her wing man “Ryo”, she is seen on the show cosplaying as Hatsune Miku. Also, she’s often spotted singing on her personal channel covering a variety of J-POP and vocaloid songs.
Tempo-P
Founder/composer of Vocalekt Visions. Vocalekt Visions is a unique concert troupe, which composes music using Vocaloid software and presents it as a “concert” using a unique HD projection system and special screen to give a smooth, lifelike holographic appearance to Vocaloid singers, as they would normally appear on stage.
Tiffany Fujii
Tiffany Fujii has been dancing online on Nico Nico Douga in the “Odottemita” scene since early 2008 and has been performing since 2010 around the bay area at different J-pop/Anime related venues including J-Pop Summit Festival last year for the Vocaloid Dance Contest which she won first place and danced with Danceroid. The songs that she dances to usually consist of Japanese idol songs, songs that come from Nico Nico Douga, Vocaloid songs, game songs and anime songs.
