| T O P I C R E V I E W |
| Daryl Surat |
Posted - 08/06/2005 : 02:41:35
I arrived at the con, and a check to the con guide revealed that not only is my panel at 10 PM instead of 11 PM, it's not in Main Events after all. I guess I misunderstood the prior correspondence, as a Robotech MST3K and Karaoke Revolution (that is, the PS2 game) was scheduled in Main Events during the late night time slots. Also, it had to be exactly two hours because something was now scheduled after me. Apparently the schedule changes were made a week ago, but the website was never updated to reflect these changes and nobody ever informed me of them in advance.
I'm actually not upset over any of these developments, but it did mean that I had to change all of my flyers on-site. The con staff was gracious enough to print me up labels with the new time for me to alter each flyer, and with the changes made, I put them up on all the sign easels. I put them on the easels themselves in the event that the boards needed changing. For high-traffic areas like the videogame room, the bathroom entrances, the dealer's room exit, and the Main Events entrance, I opted to tape the signs to the open door since that way those flyers would be at eye level. Lex Lang had actually beaten me to the punch on a lot of this, since flyers for his panel on advanced voice acting were already up on a lot of these places.
The room I was in was thankfully still a large one (bigger than last year's), and the sound setup was actually quite excellent. Unfortunately, my friend's laptop, which I've traditionally used for a DVD player, decided to not TV-out properly, so I wasn't able to use very much of the DVD footage that Phil provided me. Luckily, I still had the VCR (plus several tapes, though I only used the CMH one Phil sent me) and my main laptop which had well over 3 hours of footage on it alone, so it's not like I was lacking in footage. Next time I'll just borrow an actual set-top DVD player, though as both staff and volunteers pointed out, I already have a rather large amount of equipment: one laptop, one VCR, one TV, and one cheapo switching box that doesn't convert composite video signals to S-Video and vice versa. Well, it doesn't seem like much to ME!
The setup issues meant I started about 15 or 20 minutes late, but overall things went quite well. Zardoz left people utterly baffled and intrigued, and while the special picture got a good reaction, it wasn't the most well-received item on the lineup. It's certainly funny enough for me to keep it in the rotation, and I'll be sure to keep mentioning it for the AWA panel, but the biggest reactions were reserved for the gross-out clips such as D.O.G. O.B.G.Y.N.
The show itself went quite well. I couldn't see due to the darkness of the room (the lowest the lights could dim was still 25% brightness and the crowd preferred the lights off completely), but a staffer told me that it was about 75-85% full throughout. When the lights came on at midnight, I'd say that's about how many people were there at the very end as well. This room ended up being the same room that they held the Saturday night dance in, so I still managed to get a decent crowd.
A Panel OF DOOM first was made in that it's the first panel I ever recorded the proceedings of using a camcorder that my family has owned for about six years without my ever knowing. Checking the tape, here's what I ran. Anything in italics is footage used at other Hell events, so I wouldn't run those at AWA:
O-Zone - Dragostea Din Tea -- while I was setting up and trying unsuccessfully to get the DVD player working
Cartoons and Your Government
Kids Show - Q&A: Why is America # 1? -- I slapped the PBS logo onto all of these to block out the MTV2 one
Densha Otoko - Mr Roboto
Zardoz - The Gun Is Good
Forklift Driver Klaus
Gogo's Adventures in English
Exit 57 - Practice Random Acts of Kindness
Densha Otoko - Voice actress panel
Zardoz - Growing wheat
Fish Fight!
Kids in the Hall - GET BACK TO WORK!
Zardoz - Shonen Ai
Kids Show - Funny Not Funny (from Patience episode)
TV Carnage - Raver
Game Crazy - Keys to the Game
Gun vs Katana
Machinegun vs Katana (stopped around the replay of round 3 or 4)
Japanorama - Hello Kitty Puroland
Zardoz - Erection Experiment
Japanorama - Sailor Moon Masker
Zardoz - Erection Experiment Results
God Stuff - Bible as sex manual, premarital sex = death, God's sperm
Crayon Shin-Chan - Nurse Examination
Japanorama - Yuki and the Seven Dwarves
Japanorama - Morning Musume
Ayaka's Surprise English Lessons - What is your birthday?
Crayon Shin-Chan - Nurse Examination 2
Amitabh Bacchan - My Name is Anthony (I wasn't going to run this at all but I needed to switch my laptop over to a DVD player; I did not run this for very long)
Daily Show - To Boldly Gay
Lord of the Rings: Return of the King filk (I wasn't going to run this at all but I needed to switch back my laptop)
Conan the Barbarian - What is best in life?
Michael Jackson (special glasses to make women look like Webster)
Sexual Harassment and You
D.O.G. O.B.G.Y.N. - Skydiving (this went over pretty strong due to being nothing but gross-out shock humor)
Cartoon All Stars to the Rescue
Look Around You - Slimby (this is where THE SPECIAL PICTURE comes from; upon checking the tape this actually got a better reaction than I thought)
Batman - Some Days You Just Can't Get Rid of a Bomb
Fist of the North Star - Heart of Madness
American Idol - Heart of Madness
Zardoz - Sean Connery vs Old People
Ayaka's Surprise English Lessons - I Want to Go To Disneyland
The Awful Truth - Make a Wish Foundation
Robotech - To the Rescue! (I had to because Harmony Gold was there)
SOLDIER OF WARLORDS FROM DEEP SPACE (I didn't have the Robotech disc, but I had the song, so I just took the Animeigo disc, swapped the audio, and since I left the subtitles on it was in HOW THEY LIED O-VISION)
Kids Show - Bible Brew
Kids in the Hall - Clothes Make the Man
World Shut Your Mouth - Surprising Golfer With Cymbals
PS2 Commercial - Pornstars attack golfers
Grand Theft Auto trailer (there was a small delay in setting this up because I had to start up the DVD player on my laptop, but since it required verbal setup it wasn't too bad; more people came up to me at the con asking me WTF this was than any other clip)
Transformers Jetfire (wanted to run this after the Robotech commercial but didn't want to incur the delay then)
Commando - I'll Be Back, Bennett (I actually have plenty of clips from this, but I only ran the one; after the clip I showed a picture of Freddy from Cromartie)
Densha Otoko - Otaku Dating Advice
At this point it was midnight, but the folks scheduled to do the next event hadn't yet shown up. So I kept going.
Zardoz - The Truth About Zardoz
The Awful Truth - Teen Sniper School
World Shut Your Mouth - What's Under My Kilt? (they showed up around here)
Hercules in New York - Arnold Wrestles a Bear (played as the lights were on and I was clearing out to make way, so I ran about 7 minutes over time)
All in all, another highly successful panel. |
| 10 L A T E S T R E P L I E S (Newest First) |
| davemerrill |
Posted - 08/25/2005 : 02:47:18
Daryl, you need to send me a panel description for Panel Of Doom, ASAP. |
| Daryl Surat |
Posted - 08/12/2005 : 18:06:35
I think I've typed and retyped this response like three times over the last three days. Due to flukes, it keeps getting lost.
It's a Sony CCD-TRV85, which is probably best known for being the model that Sony discontinued on account that the nightvision mode allegedly allows one to partially see through people's clothes if they're wearing white. It's not a digital camcorder or anything, so it's not like I can just connect this thing up via Firewire to the PC since Firewire probably didn't exist at the time. It records onto ordinary Hi-8s.
I'll try and have some short clips (audio, possibly video) from the panel up over the weekend. I actually thought I'd talk over the footage a lot the way Bruce did at OtakuHell, but upon checking the tape, I barely said much at all. |
| animehell |
Posted - 08/10/2005 : 14:40:30
quote:
Originally posted by Daryl Surat
All righty, I've edited the first post to include the entire lineup I ran. I'll probably go with something similar for the AWA panel, only without the Anime Hell proper content. Sorry for not volunteering for that sooner. I'm so used to the cons around here putting forth their calls for panelists and such three weeks prior to the con date that I figured I'd be in the clear if I asked for AWA stuff six weeks in advance. Next time I'll ask in April/May.
I've already got a panel description written up for the con guide. It's actually the one I submitted for this convention, but their convention guide ended up not having any descriptions of what the panels or events were, opting to have just the names. I don't remember if CB prefers to just write his own or not, though.
Bring that camcorder to AWA! What kind is it?
"yatta@grafedia.net" |
| animehell |
Posted - 08/09/2005 : 08:00:58
quote:
Originally posted by davemerrill
I'll have to look at the schedule, but I should be able to put something on Saturday night somewhere.
Not to get all schoolmarmish, but I have to hear about this stuff a little sooner next time. It's like a month out and that's really close to the wire for me to be hearing about it. I don't live in Atlanta any more and there's a whole bunch of stuff happening at AWA that I don't have anything to do with, and my ability to shoehorn stuff in at the last minute is severely limited. Nobody should assume that since they did something last year it automatically carries over to the next year. Every year is a whole new ball game.
Sorry, my bad.
-d!
"yatta@grafedia.net" |
| Daryl Surat |
Posted - 08/08/2005 : 17:52:43
All righty, I've edited the first post to include the entire lineup I ran. I'll probably go with something similar for the AWA panel, only without the Anime Hell proper content. Sorry for not volunteering for that sooner. I'm so used to the cons around here putting forth their calls for panelists and such three weeks prior to the con date that I figured I'd be in the clear if I asked for AWA stuff six weeks in advance. Next time I'll ask in April/May.
I've already got a panel description written up for the con guide. It's actually the one I submitted for this convention, but their convention guide ended up not having any descriptions of what the panels or events were, opting to have just the names. I don't remember if CB prefers to just write his own or not, though. |
| davemerrill |
Posted - 08/08/2005 : 16:11:07
I'll have to look at the schedule, but I should be able to put something on Saturday night somewhere.
Not to get all schoolmarmish, but I have to hear about this stuff a little sooner next time. It's like a month out and that's really close to the wire for me to be hearing about it. I don't live in Atlanta any more and there's a whole bunch of stuff happening at AWA that I don't have anything to do with, and my ability to shoehorn stuff in at the last minute is severely limited. Nobody should assume that since they did something last year it automatically carries over to the next year. Every year is a whole new ball game. |
| animehell |
Posted - 08/08/2005 : 11:21:12
quote:
Originally posted by Daryl Surat
Oh yeah, I'll totally do the Panel OF DOOM at AWA (and I'm game for Totally Lame Anime as well, if you want me on that), and if Danno wants to run stuff as well, I'd be more than willing to make it a joint venture or whatever. There was nothing scheduled opposite cosplay at this convention, and so I had nothing to do for about three hours on Saturday night.
If nothing else I'll be there to cheer you on at AWA Saturday night.
-danno!
"yatta@grafedia.net" |
| Daryl Surat |
Posted - 08/07/2005 : 21:41:20
Oh yeah, I'll totally do the Panel OF DOOM at AWA (and I'm game for Totally Lame Anime as well, if you want me on that), and if Danno wants to run stuff as well, I'd be more than willing to make it a joint venture or whatever. There was nothing scheduled opposite cosplay at this convention, and so I had nothing to do for about three hours on Saturday night. |
| animehell |
Posted - 08/07/2005 : 02:02:34
Can I do an OtakuHELL at AWA?
-d!
"yatta@grafedia.net" |
| davemerrill |
Posted - 08/06/2005 : 13:09:58
I'm assuming you want to do Panel Of Doom at AWA? You haven't mentioned it before and I didn't know whether you were intending to do it at AWA or not. |
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