After a 12 hour drive with all the equipment required, I got into Vancouver Thursday night. ON Friday Morning, having a truck, I became the Convention’s equipment hauler. Once we got everything down to the convention site, I went to look over the room I had for the Anime Music Video Track I was to doo all weekend long. WOW, the room was HUGE and had a seating capacity of 500! It was basically a huge science lecture room and the projector image size was over 12 feet high!! This was probably the best room I’ve seen for running Music Videos in.
a shot of the setup I had there
The only down side was that the room’s build in sound system was a bit old, and so I had to work hard to maintain the high demands AMVs put on sound systems. I did bring an additional amplifier and smaller speakers that did help quite a bit. Otherwise, it was an AWSOME Setup.
Friday night I showed AMVs and spotlighted various creators and showed the DDR2 project. The room had about 50-80 people in it and was the best attended video room! (there were 7 other regular video rooms).
On Saturday, throughout the day there were about 80-150 people in the AMV video room! This was an respectable amount considering all the activities happening and the total in attendance! I also noted that about 50% of the audience was made up of females! There was a group of about 6 that literally lived in the AMV room!
At 3:30 pm, a line started to form for the AMV contest. Now, originally the contest was to be in the image theatre that holds about the same capacity (500), but On Friday, the video link from the ground to the projector stopped working and hence the contest would not be possible there! BUT, the room I was in was actually bigger in size since the seats were spread apart and had the same seating capacity and screen size, so Saturday morning the decision was made to have the contest in there as well. About 250-300 people came. Considering the huge schedule and the total, this was quite good. I got a picture of the lineup and the fans waving to all the creators who entered and couldn’t make it!
Saturday night I also Showed “This is Otakudom” Scott had sent me to an audience of about 250! They loved is well!
On Sunday during the feedback panel, people commented how much they loved the contest and AMV room! All the other staff loved it as well and definitely want it back next year! This con will grow (The Vancouver area has over 2 million population) and so will the popularity of music video there! Most of the fans I found are not familiar with who a lot of creators are and so this is a great opportunity to profile AMV videos and related events to the audience! I plan to expand this next year and make it bigger and better in an effort to highlight and show all the awesome AMVs that many of us creater. I also hope to get more creators to come to this event!
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