atlantagirl
07-25-2004, 12:17 PM
As many of you know, the Southeast Scapers are going to be doing our very best to Scape 40,000 at DragonCon (in Atlanta) over Labor Day Weekend. We have a fan table and a suite funded by the Farscape Webmasters Association.
Here's the situation:
Farscape is part of the American Science Fiction TV track and was not abundantly blessed with panels this year. We have 4 cast members coming to DragonCon :woohoo: (Wayne, Ginny, David, and Paul) and they will have 2 panels (one on Saturday and one on Sunday). Other than that, there's just 1 "official" Farscape panel, which is a miniseries speculation panel on Friday night.
We have our suite which is basically a living room, a bedroom, and an adjoining bedroom. This is my plan for it. The adjoining bedroom is going to be where we are showing episodes throughout the convention. I'm going to be focusing on self-contained episodes from S1 and S2 for the most part, but I think I will show the We're So Screwed trilogy and Bad Timing over Saturday and Sunday late night (Midnight to 2am) so that people who missed the cliffhanger (or have just learned about Farscape) will be able to be ready for the mini.
The other bedroom (which is actually attached to the living room), I'm planning to make the "Contamination Chamber". We will have a DVD with whatever trailer(s) we can get playing in that room. You watch the trailer, you get an "Irreversibly Contaminated" button (which will only be available in the suite). I want every frelling Klingon, Stormtrooper, Hobbit and anime fan, etc. to come to the suite and see the trailer(s) then walk around the con with an Irreversibly Contaminated button.
The living room will be the Scaper lounge. It's not a huge room and can only fit up to about 20 people. It has a sofa area plus a dining area (no kitchen). In this room, we'll be showing things like music videos, bloopers, DVD extras, etc. This is the place where scapers (old and new) can come to chill out, chat about the show, etc. This is also the room where we'd like to be able to schedule some supplemental programming since there's not much officially being offered.
What I need is ideas. What would be good programming to offer? It can't be something that brings in lots of people becuase we don't have room for lots of people, but we want interesting stuff to provide the Scapers with something fun as well as to entice casual Scapers and newbies.
Here are some ideas so far:
Aeryn's shower -- we can do a little party to celebrate the wedding and baby -- great for shippy discussion (no presents, just talking and some light munchies)
Fan fic discussion -- any Farscape fic authors coming? Any fic fans coming? We've got the room if y'all want to have a discussion group
Vid discussion -- any music video afficienados coming? There are people who'd love to know what goes into making a Farscape music video. Any volunteers?
Vid contest -- we have a number of vid authors who are sending DVDs of their work. We'd like to have a small contest (nothing too elaborate because it wouldn't be workable in a convention situation). Now we need to come up with a format for having the contest -- it will probably need to be something ongoing over the course of Saturday and Sunday with paper ballots that can be tallied after a certain amount of time. Any suggestions on how to do this?
Trivia contest -- we've had luck with trivia contests before. The thing is, we need ideas on how to do it in the suite. We expect a lot of turnover at the suite -- people will come up, stay for 15-30 minutes and then head out again to other events. We need to structure a contest that we can fit into this kind of scheduling. Again, probably something on paper (like our chainmale trivia contests online), maybe with multiple rounds. I don't know. We need some kind of genius breakthrough on this.
Costume contest -- again, something that has to spread over multiple days. This will certainly be a polaroid-type thing. Come to the suite, we take a pic, people vote over a certain extended period of time and we tally the votes up at the end to determine the winner.
What else? What are good ideas of what you'd like to see in the Scaper lounge?
We will not be having major parties at the suite -- it's just too much money and the suite is not big enough to host them. We ARE, however, hosting the Saturday night party in the main DragonCon con suite. We will have 3 hours of major prime time (9:30p - 12:30a) visibility (it's also the DragonCon ice cream social) where we'll be distributing Scaper swag, showing music vids, bloopers, and probably the campaign vid from 4.5. Other than that, we will have food (munchies) available in the suite and we will (if we can get volunteers to staff it) keep it open from 8:00a (Breakfast with Moya) to 2:00a.
We also have a couple of outstanding assignments we could really use Scaper at Large help with:
1. I would really, really love to have an exciting spoiler photo album available to people at table (and in the suite if possible). This involves searching out all the spoiler pics that are available and printing them out in the highest quality available on an inkjet printer. Pics need to be big enough to be easily legible as well as high quality and that's not really the easiest task in the world. It's time-consuming and I don't have the time to do it. Anybody out there willing to volunteer?
2. We need trivia questions -- easy, medium, and hard. Another time-consuming task that could use multiple volunteers.
This is a big event and I'd love to get as much help from the community as possible! So please, if you have a good idea, post it here -- if you have a really GREAT idea, PM or e-mail me (don't want to tip off the other fandoms so they snurch it! ;) ).
Here's the situation:
Farscape is part of the American Science Fiction TV track and was not abundantly blessed with panels this year. We have 4 cast members coming to DragonCon :woohoo: (Wayne, Ginny, David, and Paul) and they will have 2 panels (one on Saturday and one on Sunday). Other than that, there's just 1 "official" Farscape panel, which is a miniseries speculation panel on Friday night.
We have our suite which is basically a living room, a bedroom, and an adjoining bedroom. This is my plan for it. The adjoining bedroom is going to be where we are showing episodes throughout the convention. I'm going to be focusing on self-contained episodes from S1 and S2 for the most part, but I think I will show the We're So Screwed trilogy and Bad Timing over Saturday and Sunday late night (Midnight to 2am) so that people who missed the cliffhanger (or have just learned about Farscape) will be able to be ready for the mini.
The other bedroom (which is actually attached to the living room), I'm planning to make the "Contamination Chamber". We will have a DVD with whatever trailer(s) we can get playing in that room. You watch the trailer, you get an "Irreversibly Contaminated" button (which will only be available in the suite). I want every frelling Klingon, Stormtrooper, Hobbit and anime fan, etc. to come to the suite and see the trailer(s) then walk around the con with an Irreversibly Contaminated button.
The living room will be the Scaper lounge. It's not a huge room and can only fit up to about 20 people. It has a sofa area plus a dining area (no kitchen). In this room, we'll be showing things like music videos, bloopers, DVD extras, etc. This is the place where scapers (old and new) can come to chill out, chat about the show, etc. This is also the room where we'd like to be able to schedule some supplemental programming since there's not much officially being offered.
What I need is ideas. What would be good programming to offer? It can't be something that brings in lots of people becuase we don't have room for lots of people, but we want interesting stuff to provide the Scapers with something fun as well as to entice casual Scapers and newbies.
Here are some ideas so far:
Aeryn's shower -- we can do a little party to celebrate the wedding and baby -- great for shippy discussion (no presents, just talking and some light munchies)
Fan fic discussion -- any Farscape fic authors coming? Any fic fans coming? We've got the room if y'all want to have a discussion group
Vid discussion -- any music video afficienados coming? There are people who'd love to know what goes into making a Farscape music video. Any volunteers?
Vid contest -- we have a number of vid authors who are sending DVDs of their work. We'd like to have a small contest (nothing too elaborate because it wouldn't be workable in a convention situation). Now we need to come up with a format for having the contest -- it will probably need to be something ongoing over the course of Saturday and Sunday with paper ballots that can be tallied after a certain amount of time. Any suggestions on how to do this?
Trivia contest -- we've had luck with trivia contests before. The thing is, we need ideas on how to do it in the suite. We expect a lot of turnover at the suite -- people will come up, stay for 15-30 minutes and then head out again to other events. We need to structure a contest that we can fit into this kind of scheduling. Again, probably something on paper (like our chainmale trivia contests online), maybe with multiple rounds. I don't know. We need some kind of genius breakthrough on this.
Costume contest -- again, something that has to spread over multiple days. This will certainly be a polaroid-type thing. Come to the suite, we take a pic, people vote over a certain extended period of time and we tally the votes up at the end to determine the winner.
What else? What are good ideas of what you'd like to see in the Scaper lounge?
We will not be having major parties at the suite -- it's just too much money and the suite is not big enough to host them. We ARE, however, hosting the Saturday night party in the main DragonCon con suite. We will have 3 hours of major prime time (9:30p - 12:30a) visibility (it's also the DragonCon ice cream social) where we'll be distributing Scaper swag, showing music vids, bloopers, and probably the campaign vid from 4.5. Other than that, we will have food (munchies) available in the suite and we will (if we can get volunteers to staff it) keep it open from 8:00a (Breakfast with Moya) to 2:00a.
We also have a couple of outstanding assignments we could really use Scaper at Large help with:
1. I would really, really love to have an exciting spoiler photo album available to people at table (and in the suite if possible). This involves searching out all the spoiler pics that are available and printing them out in the highest quality available on an inkjet printer. Pics need to be big enough to be easily legible as well as high quality and that's not really the easiest task in the world. It's time-consuming and I don't have the time to do it. Anybody out there willing to volunteer?
2. We need trivia questions -- easy, medium, and hard. Another time-consuming task that could use multiple volunteers.
This is a big event and I'd love to get as much help from the community as possible! So please, if you have a good idea, post it here -- if you have a really GREAT idea, PM or e-mail me (don't want to tip off the other fandoms so they snurch it! ;) ).