I really enjoyed this. Very creative and cool.

Really interesting Alan. Good job.

Highly original interpretation coupled with great visual effects and a great acting. Nice, very nice!

Love the soundtrack too! First class!

Wow! Highly creative!!!

Thanks for the nice comments! I'm buried in with all of the last minute entries so I don't think I'm getting a lot of views but it was fun to make this anyway.

Hi Alan - I really enjoyed your performance and loved the orginality and creativity that went into this - it's so impressive and you have a great persence about you along w/being talented of course - oh, and I love the glasses. You've got my vote and please take a look at my Joan, Don, Betty & Peggy - I guess I got a little excited.
Avis Wrentmore
PS I have a website to see my reels: www.creativehaven.net/avis.html
Good Luck): to you:)

One of the most creative entries and great performance too. Are you the artist as well? How did you animate it? How did you come up with the concept? Can you manage my stock portfolio? This should make the finals cut, definitely. Most Impressive. One of my fav's. Todd

Thanks Todd. I truly appreciate the comment. Yes, I suppose I'm the "artist" in terms of being the person behind the creative aspect of it. The animation didn't require any artistic abilities however. My editing program has an animation tool ;-)

Not sure exactly how I came up with the concept. It just sort of came to me as I was reading through the script.

Sure, I can manage your stock portfolio. This acting things must be going pretty well for you, with the fat portfolio and all...

Unfortunately, my submission has zero chance of making the finals. I was just reading through the "terms and conditions" of the contest and saw that only the top 18 vote-getting submissions would become finalists. I think this is actually not a very fair way of running the contest, seeing that many people seem to be extremely well networked and able to generate enormous vote counts very quickly, regardless of the quality or talent involved in the video.

Well, thanks again. Hopefully you'll have the vote count to make it to the final round. I threw one in for you.

I just double checked the rules and you're right - top 18 vote getters move on to the finals and registered members can vote once per day per video.

That's crazy becuase this site is so buggy who can say who really got the most votes. At times I've been able to register votes for people twice within a minute and at other times I've been prevented from voting for my favorites for 2-3 days.

Besides I was sure the finalists would be chosen based on a combination of factors - i.e. votes, comments, editorial decision by the Mad Men producers. If they go solely by vote totals then this competion is a joke, it will lose all credibility!

That said I think your entry is fantastic, one of the top 5 for sure! It's a shame that more people haven't seen/voted for it.

Also I think a little bit of contest fatigue is setting in. In the beginning there weren't nearly as many entries and I'm sure people logged in frequently to lavish votes on whatever videos were up at the time.

Thanks for the compliment. And I couldn't agree with you more about the credibility thing.

These are the published guidelines regarding the contest:

AMCTV.com will select the final winner based on the following judging criteria:
- Originality and/or compelling nature of video content
- Popularity among voters, contest visitors, and the amctv.com community
- Quality of final product

The fact is that originality, compelling nature and quality of final product are entirely meaningless against the type of “skewing” of the voting process that has gone on.

For all intents and purposes the contest has been rigged by the entrants. Those who are well networked will advance regardless of quality or talent. I guess we all should have spent less time producing quality submissions and more time manipulating the voting by arranging for networks of people to vote for us.

A lot of talented people got duped.

Alan, I'm continuing my appeal on Ty Mahany's page in the hope that the Mad Men producers and AMC staff running this contest see/read it there.

http://blogs.amctv.com/mad-men-contest/2008/07/tymahany-as-don.php