How well do subtitle parodies work at Cons?

[keyboardsamurai]

I'm just wondering if the whole audience would be able to see them.

[The Non-Professional]

ACen doesnt accept them, I know this from experience.

[keyboardsamurai]

So I guess a humiliating Voice over would have to be a substitute hu?
I'm actually talking about AWA.

[Cybermat]

How well do subtitle parodies work at Cons?

I'm just wondering if the whole audience would be able to see them.

It depends on the venue for the convention. Some hotels have ceilings that are just not high enough for the all-important bottom edge of the screen to be above head level -- about five feet off the ground, assuming the audience is seated in normal chairs.

Low room ceilings are a serious problem for anime convention video rooms. Anime fans are largely subtitle snobs, so subtitled video programming is the norm at anime conventions. I've (unfortunately) been to some conventions where they had great big screens but low (eight-foot) ceilings... which meant that the subtitles were always blocked by the heads & shoulders of the people sitting closer to the screen than I was. I'd consider ceilings that are sixteen feet high to be high enough.

As far as "working well", it's the jokes that determine success, not the format. Corn Pone Flicks has done some great subtitled fan parodies, but then again I've also seen lackluster ones from other groups. (When doing fan parodies, you want to have twice as many jokes as you can possibly fit into the fan-parody, so you can pick the best ones to keep.)