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Skriven 2007-02-08 22:07:17 av Michael Harper (15304.babylon5)
     Kommentar till en text av rec.arts.sf.tv.babylon5.moderated
Ärende: Re: Conventions: Who's Going When?
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"Jeffrey MacHott" <Raguleader@netzero.net> wrote in message
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> Hm... go to ConDFW, you old geezers will love it.  Lots of books and
> stuff. :*D  Also some elaborate board gaming setups and such.  Actually
> a pretty nice con just for hanging out (as is AggieCon, or so I've been
> told; having been press-ganged onto ConStaff every year, I wouldn't
> know.  I get to find out what it's like on the other side this year.)

Yeah, I ran video for MidSouth for ten years, and hardly got to see the con
for that. But I got into the consuite every now and then, hit the dealer
room, stuff like that.

> Incidentally, if you've ever worked a con, the best part about going to
> other peoples' cons is playing "Spot the Con SNAFU", where you see how
> good a job the con staff does at hiding up the massive screwups that
> always happen at conventions (some are very good at covering it up,
> others run around screaming into their walkie talkies).

MidSouth was very good at hiding their troubles. I had no problems with my
end; I had a deal with a local fan who ran a audio-video store, and I got a
bigscreen from him every year for two memberships and a little money. I'd
pull down my home stereo, shove it all in the car, take it to the hotel and
set it up in my function room, we'd wheel in the big screen, hook it all up
and run a systems test. I knew I'd gotten it right one year when the folks
from the consuite, at the other end of the hotel, asked me to turn it down
because they could hear the dinosaurs. (I was running Jurassic Park for my
a/v test. I could feel it through the slab; I had two big Fisher four-ways
and a JBL subwoofer hooked up. Sweet.)

I have a quirk about convention video. I feel that if you're going to a con,
you should expect the best bang for your buck, and a regular home tv sitting
on a table doesn't cut it. This was my big complaint with Rivercon, in every
other way one of the best I've ever attended, but video was in a closet with
a 24" home telly on a table, and a multidisc DVD player running movies
according to schedule.

I set my system up like a studio, multiple machines where possible, disc and
tape, switching from one to the other, keeping to the schedule as best I
could. Running it like I was doing broadcast. And I always got the biggest
room I could because on Friday I'd run Phantom of the Paradise, and on
Saturday Rocky Horror, and the room was usually packed.

And oddly enough, I miss doing it.

Mike
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