Info

The fine print

Everything you need to know before you email us asking something that’s answered right here.

Contact

General questions, corrections, praise. Complaints will be read eventually.

Generalthecommittee@dontskipintro.com
Takedownstakedowns@dontskipintro.com

How submitting works

  1. Send a review copy. Upload a file (720p or better, under 100 MB) or share a review link from Vimeo, Frame.io, Dropbox and the like. Five minutes max. Include whatever credits you have. Don’t send us your ProRes master. We’ll ask for it if you earn it.
  2. A Committee member watches all of it. Then scores craft, typography, concept and execution from 1 to 5. It needs a 3.5 average and nothing under 3.
  3. You get a verdict. Usually within a week, under “Your submissions” on the Submit page. Rejections come with a reason. Arguing with the reason is not allowed but not discouraged. Send complaints to the dark void that once held our sense of humanity.
  4. If approved, send the master. Full resolution within 14 days, or the approval quietly expires.
  5. It goes live. Your piece gets its own page with the credits we have. Some get made staff picks. That part you can’t ask for.

Rules

  • Credits are welcome. Studio, director, designers, animators, sound. Send what you have; partial is fine.
  • Didn’t make it? Nominate it anyway. Tell us the studio and the show or film. If the Committee approves it, we ask the people who made it for the final file, the credits and their OK. Nothing goes up without them, and you get credit for spotting it.
  • Leave the generative AI at home. This site exists to celebrate people who still use their brains. If AI did any of the heavy lifting, say so in the credits, and expect the Committee to be deeply unimpressed.
  • You only need an account to submit. Name and email, no password. Browsing needs nothing. Don’t worry, you won’t hear from us.
  • One submission per day. Per account, no exceptions. Quality over quantity is the whole point of this place.
  • One piece, one submission. Resubmitting the same thing with a new title fools no one.
  • No watermarks, no letterbox-in-a-letterbox, no phone recordings of a TV. We shouldn’t have to say this.

Other tidbits

  • No ads, no algorithm. What you see was picked by a person, in order, like the old days.
  • Popularity doesn’t get you featured. Staff picks are chosen by the Committee. View counts are not a quality score.
  • Our Terms and Privacy Policy. Short, readable, and not written by a lawyer, because see below.

Takedowns & corrections

We don’t have lawyers. We have a lot of opinions about typeface choices and a strong desire to never need lawyers. So if your work is here and you’d rather it wasn’t, email the takedown address with a link and it comes down immediately. No forms, no arguments, no hard feelings.

Credits wrong or missing? Same address. We’ll fix them.