Amecon was another Amecon. It still feels like a convention searching for an identity, though arguably it made a bit better job of it this year, at least in some event streams. Unfortunately not streams I was interested in. And it is still saddled with the problem of taking place at a site not suitable for the event. That Percy Gee building is University rabbit warren architecture at its worst. The only exception was the Redfearne bar which was excellent, in part due to its awesome jukebox.
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My panel went far better than I could ever have imagined. Notes for next time:
Save some big hitters for every twenty minutes.
Burn an NTSC rather than PAL disc.
Pester convention about event proposals a lot earlier :)
My original plan was to use this panel as a 1 hour experiment to figure out what material would work when I ran it again. I got 2 hours after someone dropped out, and I ended up using 1 hour and a half of that. A lot of the “better” clips had gone early and I was left with both a lot of filler and some clips that in retrospect seemed like they belonged in a different panel. It felt better to go out on a high (that horse thing) and leave people wanting more, than to have folks lose interest.
Self-analysis aside, it was huge success. Response and attendance was like nothing I could have dreamt of when I was editing those clips ad infinitum for a month.
Yay!
I might have missed something, but what was your panel about? From which anime did you show clips of? At a guess, it sounds a bit like that “Anime Hell” thing they have in the US. Good to hear it went well!
@bateszi
It’s hard to explain. My only aim for the panel was to be “alternate programming”. Pretty much anything you couldn’t find anywhere else on the schedule.
It was similar to Anime Hell in format, not quite so much in content. After I made my playlist, I checked their forum for old playlists and there’s some crossover. About 1/3 of the content was in Anime Hell territory.
However, the main inspiration was Jim McClennan’s old late night programming he used to run at UK cons in the 90s.
Other things like WFMU’s Beware of the Blog, SWFBLOG, PCL Link Dump, and Cartoon Brew also play an important part in it’s inspiration.
And the rest came via just looking the names of my favourite shows up on nicovideo and a hell of a lot of browsing.