My ideas for the cotest:
"Signs and roadsigns"
"Well known movies - not obvious shots"
specyfic colour shots, for example "Green Shots"
"Phones"

And what about a Palahniuk's Rejected Snaps contest ?

I've got this idea... we all have a lot of movies on DVDs, and some of this DVD has some specials features, deleted scenes, alternative endings and beginings and this kind of stuff... so how about contest with shots from special features.
It seems hard because not everybody watched this kind of material, but some shots can be recognized even if you didn't watch the movie, so with the special features should be similar.

We won't have a "special features" contest. Why? Because some special features are used for different movies. It would be a bloody mess.
And DVD covers won't happen for the same reason.

Great idea Terry!

I like the movie-mistakes, but also would like a split-screen contest

Documentaries are already accepted, as long as they are "feature movies".
Shorts most probably will never be done. It would be impossible to moderate: too many shorts are not released on DVD, just uploaded on the web.

I agree with your top20/25 idea Winterwolf ! But I disagree that it's "not that hard to reach top25" lol

Yeah, I'm not that fond of crocodile either, and it's a regular thing during contests...Stop giving him chilis :)

I went quickly through all the pages of this thread to get an idea of what's been discussed before.
This is NOT an exact count. I did that fast, I don't have time to check. That's why I won't give you numbers.

But here are those that seem to be the "most wanted" themes:
- Splitscreens
- Nudity

Then, the popular ones:
- Goofs/bloopers/mistakes
- Heroes & villains
- Hugs & kisses
- Landscapes
- Legs & feet
- Music
- Sex, drugs & rock'n'roll
- Skylines
- Toilets (and bathrooms?)
- Transitions (Crossfades and other montage effects)
- Underwater shots
- Weapons

Then the ones with a few supporters:
- 12 signs of the Zodiac
- Art (famous works of art in movie shots)
- Bring me up baby! (character carrying another one)
- Bulbs, lamps & chandeliers
- Cats & dogs
- Children
- Clocks & watches
- Drugs
- Face expressions
- Falling
- Four horsemen of the Apocalypse
- Geometry
- Hair/Crazy haistyles
- Hearts (shape or organ)
- Jewelry (aka Gold & diamonds)
- Outer space
- Penis
- Phones
- References of famous scenes of other movies
- Seasons
- Smoking in movies
- Spirals & Labyrinths
- Stairs
- Symmetry
- Tears
- Toys
- Voyeur
- War
- Watch out he's behind you!

Then the other ones:
- Beards & mustaches
- Benches
- Birds
- Bridges
- Cameos by directors or other famous people
- Clothes & shoes
- Computers
- Doors/Windows
- Drawings & paintings in movies
- Extreme close-ups
- Face to face
- Fires
- Flags & banners
- Floors & ceilings
- Flying saucers
- Fog/Mist
- Graffiti/street art
- Hiding
- Lens flares
- Life & death (births and funerals)
- Lips
- Money
- Moon
- Movie making
- Mythology
- People in strange positions (e.g. flying, falling, upside down...)
- Police cars
- Prom nights/Dances/Balls
- Rainbow
- Robots
- Shower/rain
- Sound sources (anything from jukebox, radio etc... might include or not phones, alarm clock)
- Sports
- Tattoos
- Teeth/Fangs
- Weddings
- Westerns

I suggest the next contest is picked from the first 2 categories.

As for the "themes" - I'd like it if we really went for a "theme" next time, not only for a "noun". Otherwise we'll just have a ton of boring ass shots of cars, animals, nude people, underwater scenes, hugs, legs and so on. You get the idea. I'd prefer a contest that is not only challenging for the solvers, but for the uploaders aswell.

"Transitions" sounds like a nice idea, but because of their nature it's impossible to capture anything apart from crossfades in just one frame, so we'd most likely miss out on some of the most amazing transitions.

Of the possible themes mentioned before, I'd personally be in favor of "movie mistakes". Pala made some nice suggestions a while back, too. I remember something like "Surprise! The best movie twists".

i think the draw the movie is a tradition already, we probably can expect one somewhere between oktober and december again :)

I'm also in favor of Winterwolf's suggestion - have a top 20 or top 25. :)

I would like to see a split screen or weapons contest, any ideas when the next one should be? :)

why not do something with the number 3

like for example 3 persons, 3 trees, 3 apples, 9 eyes, a threesome, etc.

That's a great idea LordMyst, I second that.

Something is coming. You'll hear from Asmodai soon.

*spoiler removed*

So, will we have a Draw the Movie 3? The last one started on the 22nd of October if I'm not mistaken, more than a year ago... I know that with the Birthday Contests ending on the 17th, just 5 days would be way too close to start such a contest, for which we need time to plan and make our own shots, but it's been 20 days now...

I agree. A new contest would be very nice.

What we can also do, is just only allow 10 votes and have Scruffy leave an unspoilered shout with the solution under every shot!

My point is, what spoiled the fun of vaults (and WTM partly) for ME (as a player, not as a mod) is not just GI. What's even worse, imo:
- People sharing solutions via email
- People creating many new accounts to boost their rating
- Groups of players boosting all each others shots
- Bots to get as many solves or fs's as possible

EDIT: And I do not like you saying that we just wait forever on things, the complete staff and others work really hard to keep WtM as fun and refreshing as we can. Just that we don't tell you all about it, does not mean that things are not happening or changing behind the scenes.

and of course I appreciate all your work, I respect that very much that many people work for free here...but one of the things I never understand is why there is not much dialog with the community (because the community is actually the most important part of WTM...without community no WTM). Keeping everything so secret I'm not sure if that's the right way.

Another thing which I don't understand is why you guys seem not to want to accept any help out of the community, for example Pzy offering his help with the memos...he asked two times and he didn't even get a lousy answer (which is kinda disrespectful to him in my opinion). I don't think like this WTM can find any coder ever when someone offering his help doesn't even get some answer...(a simple yes or no would have been enough if he can help somehow or not)

But of course I take your words and wait for the refreshing things here to come very soon and I will be the first one to applaud and cheer then. :)

I disagree: better an easy but beautiful shot, than an ugly shot which can't be found with one search technique... This is also not what WTM is about, if you ask me: It's about the beauty of movies!

I'm glad there are other people who'd like a new contest as well.

On another note, this whole discussion on GI is slightly redundant by now. Of course it is not fair using it but as it's been mentioned many other times, there are different ways of cheating and not all of these can be prevented. I personally believe that this is not one of the main reasons of why WTM has become less fun (I know, some might disagree but that's just how I feel). The contests are something to look forward to. I'd say I'm not the only person here who sees it that way. So, to cut a long story short, I agree that picking shots should not depend on whether or not they can be found using GI. Contests should be fun, so if you want to solve the cheating issue first, just have a contest without prizes for now - just for the fun of it.