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FinnCon 2006
Aug. 20th, 2006 09:24 pmThe annual Finnish science fiction convention Finncon is now over for this year. Good times, money spent, memories gathered. There was a anime convention there at the same time and because of that, the amount of people was staggering. Because of the moderate size of the convention center, only 3500 persons were allowed to in at a time and in Saturday, the security personnel had to keep people from coming in because of the safety limit of 3500. Also, almost all the programs were full and people were left outside in some anime programs because they simply didn’t fit in. Maybe it would be the time to arrange the anime con as a separate from Finncon the next time, hm?
I was in the program, too. I was the leader of speech in the con’s one and only fan fiction program, a panel. I have nice, if somewhat ill-experienced panelists, and against for what I had feared, a full audience. I had decided to make the panel fun and fast paced and I think I succeeded well. We managed to lower down from the nice, decent meta level of “What is slash” and discussed things like incest and real people in slash, instead. Yes, it think it went well. Yay.
For overall, I think that there was too much panel discussions in the con. This showed when one saw trough many panels and noticed that some of the panelist were in on several panels and a lot of panelists were the arranging personnel. Even if this made it look like that it had been hard to find people for the panels, there could be as many as five (plus the leader of the speech) is some. That is definitely too much people for a panel discussion. Also, if one makes a show which is supposed to emulate a talk show (only there are fantasy characters discussing about their feelings), you'd better find out some people who can actually talk! Without stuttering and stuff. The thing felt like bad amateur theater and it was painful to watch.
As there things go, I used a way too much money. The merchendice wasn’t this year that much of science fiction than manga for the anime people. There was even a separate big yaoi table within the biggest seller. I didn’t buy *that much*, but I did look up for the publishers’ names to look up their internet stores ;)
Despite *feeling cheap*, I used too much. I burned some in the “Destroy the unwanted merchendice”, but what the hell, it went to the good cause. Pasi Jääskeläinen’s latest book cost like a bitch, especially as I’m sure that I could buy it with a bargain price six months later. Eventually my wad of cash dried out (and after that, I
*almost* bought manga worth 86 eurs from the only vendor that approved visa).
I met numerous people in my frinds list, but only had the time to chat with some of them. A pity, but thats the way it goes. If they will ever be a fan fiction con in Finland, there should be a lot of free time for just chatting and making new friends. Fan fiction con.. Hmm..
I was in the program, too. I was the leader of speech in the con’s one and only fan fiction program, a panel. I have nice, if somewhat ill-experienced panelists, and against for what I had feared, a full audience. I had decided to make the panel fun and fast paced and I think I succeeded well. We managed to lower down from the nice, decent meta level of “What is slash” and discussed things like incest and real people in slash, instead. Yes, it think it went well. Yay.
For overall, I think that there was too much panel discussions in the con. This showed when one saw trough many panels and noticed that some of the panelist were in on several panels and a lot of panelists were the arranging personnel. Even if this made it look like that it had been hard to find people for the panels, there could be as many as five (plus the leader of the speech) is some. That is definitely too much people for a panel discussion. Also, if one makes a show which is supposed to emulate a talk show (only there are fantasy characters discussing about their feelings), you'd better find out some people who can actually talk! Without stuttering and stuff. The thing felt like bad amateur theater and it was painful to watch.
As there things go, I used a way too much money. The merchendice wasn’t this year that much of science fiction than manga for the anime people. There was even a separate big yaoi table within the biggest seller. I didn’t buy *that much*, but I did look up for the publishers’ names to look up their internet stores ;)
Despite *feeling cheap*, I used too much. I burned some in the “Destroy the unwanted merchendice”, but what the hell, it went to the good cause. Pasi Jääskeläinen’s latest book cost like a bitch, especially as I’m sure that I could buy it with a bargain price six months later. Eventually my wad of cash dried out (and after that, I
*almost* bought manga worth 86 eurs from the only vendor that approved visa).
I met numerous people in my frinds list, but only had the time to chat with some of them. A pity, but thats the way it goes. If they will ever be a fan fiction con in Finland, there should be a lot of free time for just chatting and making new friends. Fan fiction con.. Hmm..
