Damn, needed more audience for the pre-con judging.
That's the thing about tech problems. The littlest thing delays you for ever, or just breaks your equipment. I always have to tell our staff that "this might not be our responsibility, but it's certainly our problem." Hell, we even had your dance-floor problem one year, and the stupid hotel staff broke one of their own sliding-wall dividers during a panel two years ago. *sigh*
AMV's are pretty big at many anime cons, to the tune of 2-3 hours of main-room viewing for the contests and the like. Varies wildly, though.
AWA's kinda exceptional, though, in that's the "thing we do really well". We've got the "Video Art Track" (VAT) which is a 24-hour/day track devoted to AMVs alone. It's usually divided up between request blocks (we had to build a couple of terabyte servers for the archives) hour-long blocks for guests to show their favs or latest works, events like Iron Chef or the dance, and the contest exhibitions. We take over the main room for three hours to show the contest winners (three contests). it's probably about the second biggest thing at the con, but we're only mid-sized for anime cons, around 5,000 last year. We get a lot of the AMVers to come out 'cause of our treatment of them.
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Re: Heh
Date: 2004-08-29 07:47 pm (UTC)That's the thing about tech problems. The littlest thing delays you for ever, or just breaks your equipment. I always have to tell our staff that "this might not be our responsibility, but it's certainly our problem." Hell, we even had your dance-floor problem one year, and the stupid hotel staff broke one of their own sliding-wall dividers during a panel two years ago. *sigh*
AMV's are pretty big at many anime cons, to the tune of 2-3 hours of main-room viewing for the contests and the like. Varies wildly, though.
AWA's kinda exceptional, though, in that's the "thing we do really well". We've got the "Video Art Track" (VAT) which is a 24-hour/day track devoted to AMVs alone. It's usually divided up between request blocks (we had to build a couple of terabyte servers for the archives) hour-long blocks for guests to show their favs or latest works, events like Iron Chef or the dance, and the contest exhibitions. We take over the main room for three hours to show the contest winners (three contests). it's probably about the second biggest thing at the con, but we're only mid-sized for anime cons, around 5,000 last year. We get a lot of the AMVers to come out 'cause of our treatment of them.