Idea for an all AMV gathering/Convention/Expo

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Postby The Wired Knight » Sun Sep 01, 2002 4:59 pm

IT would be nice but oh God the funding would be horrible. If we can get it organized and funded then I am all for it, but we would have to have more than just amvs to be a succesfull con. All cons, as you know, need a dealer room.
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Postby Vlad G Pohnert » Sun Sep 01, 2002 5:59 pm

The Wired Knight wrote:IT would be nice but oh God the funding would be horrible. If we can get it organized and funded then I am all for it, but we would have to have more than just amvs to be a succesfull con. All cons, as you know, need a dealer room.


Keep in mind this is would not be a traditional con with the huge costs and all the activities, so a dealer room would not be required since all the events would be around AMVs, etc....This would be more like a massive gathering with tons of events and workshops for the purpose of having fun, meeting everyone, exchanging stories and learning stuff about AMVs from each other and the Pros.....

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Postby MistyCaldwell » Sun Sep 01, 2002 6:28 pm

If I understand correctly, this is not (being designed as) a typical anime convention Vlad is thinking up. It seems more like...a glorified AMV party :) So, you wouldn't need guests, dealer rooms, general stuff.

That's why I think having it around a big convention (not ON or AT the same time/place) would be good. You wouldn't be drawing away any attendees at all. At least not in the first couple meets. It just wouldn't be feasible to say, 50 amv makers travel 200 + miles to a one day event in it's infancy. Unless there is a flood of support beforehand it would be easier on those of us with strained budgets to put it near something we were going to anyway.

And it would be it's own event entirely.

I think this would kind of be an AMV "club" type meet more than a convention. But open to anyone...is this kind of what you had in mind Vlad?
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Postby Vlad G Pohnert » Sun Sep 01, 2002 6:43 pm

MistyCaldwell wrote:
I think this would kind of be an AMV "club" type meet more than a convention. But open to anyone...is this kind of what you had in mind Vlad?


Yes, kind of. Look at it this way, stamp collectors have a huge get together in a "convention" like environment annualy. This is the concept here. This would not be a anime Convention, but I think AMV artists and even fans of AMVs would get lots our of it since there would be a lot of things going on than just watching videos and contests. We're talking AMV dances, panels, workshops, AMV gameshows, contests socials, etc.

I think if it is planned right, I figure it could get about 500 - 1000 people together.Yes lots of good planning and events that would draw people would be very important. At this point, this is only an idea and required some initail dicussions and a "show" of hand on how many creators are actually intertested.....

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Postby Fungie½ » Sun Sep 01, 2002 6:47 pm

I'm all for it ^^ AMV gatherings are the best ^^

I think a 1 or 2 day event would be nice ^^ Like maybe Saturday and Sunday?

We'd need a projector ^^ A major thing ^^ Maybe a computer or two ^^

CD exchange is a must ^^

I'm assuming this would be in a hotel, but where? I know some people are from out of country (Canada, Europe) so it'd have to be somewhere everyone can get to (maybe..Denver?) without lightening our wallets ^^;;
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Postby MistyCaldwell » Sun Sep 01, 2002 6:50 pm

*shows hand*

Just keep me updated on any details ^_^
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Postby NME » Sun Sep 01, 2002 7:02 pm

You say Canada like its some kind of far off magical land that costs large amounts of money to travel to and from. Jeez, Vlad the person who suggested this whole thing is in Canada. It's not that much of a problem anyway.
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Postby Fungie½ » Sun Sep 01, 2002 8:12 pm

Yeah I can understand that. I just didn't want it all the way in Texas, as international flights do cost ^^;;

Like I said before, all for it ^^
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Postby Vlad G Pohnert » Sun Sep 01, 2002 8:27 pm

NME wrote:You say Canada like its some kind of far off magical land that costs large amounts of money to travel to and from. Jeez, Vlad the person who suggested this whole thing is in Canada. It's not that much of a problem anyway.


How did you arrive at that from my postings? Yes, it's more expensive for use to travel to the US, but I've gone to three con + will be at AWA trhis year so obviously it's not THAT ecxpensive....

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Postby NME » Sun Sep 01, 2002 9:01 pm

True.
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Postby Vlad G Pohnert » Sun Sep 01, 2002 9:54 pm

Well, one thing is for sure, I'll be discussing this in more detail with some of the AMV makers at AWA and see what the response will be like. Based on that we'll see if this should be perused further...

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Postby The Wired Knight » Sun Sep 01, 2002 11:31 pm

Hmmm, as a more private issue I think it actually isn't a half bad idea then. The funding problem would be cut down a lot, if we simply invited members of this forum and themailing list we could afford a decent sized convention room to do our stuff and have a small fanshowing. it could grow at that rate, I'm willing to help out then.
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Postby mexicanjunior » Thu Sep 05, 2002 1:16 pm

Fungie½ wrote:Yeah I can understand that. I just didn't want it all the way in Texas, as international flights do cost ^^;;



:cry: But us TX AMV'ers wanna have fun too. :cry: Heck, maybe we could even get Carlos and the Hypeo boys to get a doc together for it. :D
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Postby Kusoyaro » Thu Sep 05, 2002 1:30 pm

Sounds cool, but it would be absolutely HELL to organize, especially since all the work is being done by slacker AMVers.



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Postby Machine » Thu Sep 05, 2002 1:33 pm

mexicanjunior wrote::cry: But us TX AMV'ers wanna have fun too. :cry: Heck, maybe we could even get Carlos and the Hypeo boys to get a doc together for it. :D


I could make one for it...but then again not alot of AMVers have a sense of humor (major one) and throw hissy fits about not wanting to participate or have fun.

Bringing a Camera to a gathering of nothign but AMV makers equals trouble.

Heheh, Can't wait till AWA 8)
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