This is about the size of room I was dealing with at Sabotencon when I showed AMVS4. I got a similar reaction as the bigger vid audience there, like everyone was in a library and needed some prodding to laugh. It was kinda painful having been at Otakon and experienced the awesome audience. The other audience is much nicer, but that is the latter half, how'd they do initially for the first half? I am recognizing though that the Sony POS really did a great job leading off last year, better than I realized. I don't think the Dr. Who intro can hold a candle to it on sheer humor to get people open to the fact that it's a comedy. But we'll see what happens. It'll be interesting either way. We really gotta recognize how necessary a truly hilarious intro is to getting the audience in the mood I think for next year.
I particularly loved the guy in the background at Robot Unicorn in the starting vid. You could almost feel the audience going "Oh for cryin' out loud" and then that guy got exactly what he wanted
He's actually a perfect example of what I meant by giving them just enough time to pick up on what's about to happen. He was losing it before they even hit the star
And from what I heard the laughter at Haruhi Blows Up wasn't as bad as I thought. Actually that seemed to wake them up a bit. Definitely like... all guys laughing at it though
Still think it belongs in the latter half, but it wasn't as bad there as I thought. You can hear one guy still laughing into the next clip ^^ Definitely a /b/tard ^^ I think it's crucial to get a clip like Hair Back and Forth into that position though. We have to mix it up there, catch them off guard. We may have to leave that clip there to give them a sort of spectrum. Like "See, here's muppet babies... now here's completely random shit... we have it all!" I'm all for using Hair Back and Forth if we can get permission.
I think we should explore that the other audience didn't loosen up until around the 10-minute mark. Anything we can do potentially? How'd the more receptive audience do for the first half you weren't able to record?
I'm most definitely going to raise the volume of the leprechaun one now though. I think the straining to hear it even a little bit loses some of the initial humor potential because nobody wants to make noise and drown out the audio. Kind of like Haruvi Baadoman it seems.