Overmind is still worried...
I've been to 1. It was last years LA con so I can assume this year would be somewhat the same. Like I said, a majority are fangurls sqeeing over Joe Flanigan or Michael Shanks. Age is perhaps 40-50 range? Not that many young people there. Last time they say they expected 1000 people to attend, but I didn't feel the overcrowding.
Of course! I dont want to be out of my element there. Star Trek conventions are still my favorite scifi enevts. There are old, young, lots of fan participation and costumes and cool stuff themed with Star Trek. In the parking lots you can spot the minivans done up like shuttles, the big bellied 55 year old Klingons, its lots of fun! Lots of people too.
This is good! It means that I will not be out of place as far as age, and I wont feel uncomfortable. Also, what is the policy on cameras, cellphones, etc? Can I take my own pictures and/or video?
Well said and good point! :beckettu:...
Most importantly have fun! and realy sgu*s on the front of a t-shirt does not actualy personaly insult the ACTOR it makes a statement about the SHOW itself!
Of all the cons ive been to (8) they have mainly been filled with women 3:1 ration id say. But there was all ages including babies! (damn babies) none of the men looked uncomfortable if anything the lack of men meant they became the centre of attention.
The one great things about cons is that they realy do go that extra mile for disabled people that are going and thats pretty coo.l as ive been to other events where those things like ramps and seating arrangements were pretty piss poor! I have do encourage any fan with a disability not to be put off scifi conventions as they pretty much lead the way as far as ive seen.
Camera/filming policys are different convention to convention, but the genral rule ive found is that you can take pics during the talks but have to be very careful when taking film. they can and will confiscate cameras if they think your filming. with the lights down and flashes going off its hard for them to catch eveyone.
Autograph signing can also take on mine field proportions. at one con you were allowed one item signed. it had to be something brought to the con or the con glossy photo you were given at checkin or bought from the organisers. I had a minor hissy fit when the painted canvas i bought in the trading room they tried to refuse me taking in to be signed, i won but it was bloody annoying!
So the biggest thing i worked out was to get the information from the organisers info desk first hand. Dont rely on the flyers as they can change and will all the time.
Most importantly have fun! and realy sgu*s on the front of a t-shirt does not actualy personaly insult the ACTOR it makes a statement about the SHOW itself!
For me it's been the other way around: as many pictures and filming on the autograph sessions you like (where they're really close up) as long as no flash is used, but no cameras allowed in the theaters/panels at all.You can take pictures and videos at the theater. I don't think you can for the signings especially since I've never seen pictures from the signings posted. Sharing them is another thing, people have posted con vids and occasionally they get deleted.
Made this one with the logo. It is straight on the shirt, the shirt is just hanging crooked on the back of the chair. If I set the black background to white will the letters still be visible on a white shirt? I am not an expert with these drawing packages and am currently using Adobe photoshop as it was installed already.
I had to reduce the picture quality so the resolution does not do it justice. It looks a lot more vibrant in real life.
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Love the Scollum shirt - it is too funny! I can imagine BJS's face if he sees that - his lips will purse very intensely. Then his mother might run after you trying to hit you with her umbrella!
Overmind made one with the big logo that looked pretty good on a white shirt - so maybe you can ask him for his file. Otherwise, if you are going to put it on a white shirt, I would suggest adding more shadows or borders for contrast w/ the white, or simply changing the letters to a darker color, and then making the background transparent. Depending on the format of the logo you have, that will be easy or difficult. You want to get the .psd file or other file where the letters are in a text box, so you can change them easily. Otherwise if you just have the single layer jpeg or png you will have to go in there, zoomed in, and color individual pixels w/ the paint tool and paint bucket to make it look right, which is tedious.
Made this one with the logo. It is straight on the shirt, the shirt is just hanging crooked on the back of the chair. If I set the black background to white will the letters still be visible on a white shirt? I am not an expert with these drawing packages and am currently using Adobe photoshop as it was installed already.
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I'm only going on Saturday. I'm an hour from downtown LA and I'm not wasting my time to see them! I'll be proudly wearing my SGUS shirt . I'm curious why they don't mix SGU and SGA/SG1. Say Shanks was on Sat and Flanigan was on Sun and BJS was on Sat and Elyse on Sun. I think people wanting to see both Shanks and Flanigan would pay for both days which in this case they would only pay on Sat.
It seems a lot of cons seperate SG1/SGA from SGU. On Friday are often minor stars from SG1/SGA there, on Saturday the stars from SG1/SGA and the Sunday is for SGU. They mingle actors from SG1 and SGA all the time, but not often with actors from SGU.
That;s pretty well it. The exception seems to be that one with Huffman where Mallozzi manufactured the nasty fan problem story. Otherwise they seem to put them on Sunday when everyone's worn down. treat them like lepers I say. IMHO.
Yeah continually putting them on Sunday by themselves does make them seem a bit like afterthoughts. In some ways its probably less awkward for the actors, not having to face so many people who aren't SGU fans but then its twice as awkward if you see a room onlt 1-2/3rds full and you hear that the room was packed for yesterday.
I do feel a bit sorry for the actors at this con, not a great time to be on a pannel when everyone knows the elephant in the room is that it's about to get canned anyway.