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Dec. 16th, 2003 03:42 pmpsubratOkay, folks, I need some info here and this seems to be a good way to do this. I would like to ask all of my friends to pass this entry around to their friends and ask them to pass it around to THEIR friends, etc., etc., especially out of Buffy fandom. I need more information than just from Buffy fandom, so other TV show and movie fandoms are important too. As well as gamers, RPG'ers, sports people, etc., etc. Thanks!
I'm not gonna do a cut on this, I want this very easy to see and answer, so here we go.
My questions are about conventions.
1) Have you ever been or are you planning to go to any kind of convention? (Fan convention based on a TV show or movie, fan convention based on a genre of shows/movies, anime convention, gaming convention, sports convention, etc.) If so, how many have you been to or are you planning to go to?
2) If you have been to one in the past, was it in the same country you live in or was it in a different country? If you're planning to go to one, is it in the same country you live in or a different country?
3) If you were ABLE to go to another country to go to a convention, would you? Why or why not?
4) What do you go to conventions for - seeing your favourite celebrities, hanging out with your friends, traveling to a different city? Please tell me ALL the reasons you go to them in the order of most important to least important.
5) If you've never been and aren't really thinking about it, is there anything that would entice you to go to a convention in your native country? In another country?
6) If you've been going to conventions for awhile, have you noticed any changes in conventions in the past few years? If so, what have they been? If not, why do you think that is?
7) What is the most you'd pay for each of the following ticket levels (note: these are very broad generalizations in terms of row numbers, etc.):
a) Seat in the first ten rows for all guest talks, being within the first hundred people getting autographs, guaranteed 1 autograph from each guest, entry to all special events like meet & greets, parties, etc., entry to all convention programming like dances, panels, video rooms, as well as the dealer's room, etc.
b) Seat in the next ten-twenty rows, being within the next couple hundred people getting autographs, guaranteed 1 autograph from each of the MAIN guests, entry to all convention programming like dances, panels, video rooms, as well as the dealer's room, etc.
c) Seat in the next twenty-fifty rows, opportunity to get an autograph from each of the main guests (no guarantees, it would depend on how fast the first two levels of ticket-holders get through the line), entry to all convention programming like dances, panels, video rooms, as well as the dealer's room, etc.
9) What is THE #1 most important thing to you about a convention? (Meeting the celebrities, seeing your friends, etc.)
10) Is it more important to you that a convention be fan-run or run by a professional company? Why is that more important to you than the other?
Thanks, folks, please pass this around!
I'm not gonna do a cut on this, I want this very easy to see and answer, so here we go.
My questions are about conventions.
1) Have you ever been or are you planning to go to any kind of convention? (Fan convention based on a TV show or movie, fan convention based on a genre of shows/movies, anime convention, gaming convention, sports convention, etc.) If so, how many have you been to or are you planning to go to?
2) If you have been to one in the past, was it in the same country you live in or was it in a different country? If you're planning to go to one, is it in the same country you live in or a different country?
3) If you were ABLE to go to another country to go to a convention, would you? Why or why not?
4) What do you go to conventions for - seeing your favourite celebrities, hanging out with your friends, traveling to a different city? Please tell me ALL the reasons you go to them in the order of most important to least important.
5) If you've never been and aren't really thinking about it, is there anything that would entice you to go to a convention in your native country? In another country?
6) If you've been going to conventions for awhile, have you noticed any changes in conventions in the past few years? If so, what have they been? If not, why do you think that is?
7) What is the most you'd pay for each of the following ticket levels (note: these are very broad generalizations in terms of row numbers, etc.):
a) Seat in the first ten rows for all guest talks, being within the first hundred people getting autographs, guaranteed 1 autograph from each guest, entry to all special events like meet & greets, parties, etc., entry to all convention programming like dances, panels, video rooms, as well as the dealer's room, etc.
b) Seat in the next ten-twenty rows, being within the next couple hundred people getting autographs, guaranteed 1 autograph from each of the MAIN guests, entry to all convention programming like dances, panels, video rooms, as well as the dealer's room, etc.
c) Seat in the next twenty-fifty rows, opportunity to get an autograph from each of the main guests (no guarantees, it would depend on how fast the first two levels of ticket-holders get through the line), entry to all convention programming like dances, panels, video rooms, as well as the dealer's room, etc.
9) What is THE #1 most important thing to you about a convention? (Meeting the celebrities, seeing your friends, etc.)
10) Is it more important to you that a convention be fan-run or run by a professional company? Why is that more important to you than the other?
Thanks, folks, please pass this around!
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Date: 2003-12-16 01:22 pm (UTC)2) I’ve been to one con in the US, and I’m planning another. But they largely coincided with trips I had planned. The other con was in Sydney, a short drive away.
3) I usually wouldn’t go overseas specifically for a convention, but if I’m going overseas and there is a con on when I’m other there, then I would certainly look at going.
4) I’ll admit I went to Cleveland mainly to see what JM looked like in real life. Writercon and the other Buffy con in Sydney were more about meeting up with people I know on line. Ultimately, the fandom is probably as important to me as the show.
5) Lots of things would entice me to go to a con, but meeting up with someone I know online would be the clincher.
6) I don’t really have enough experience to say.
7) I find these questions hard to answer in abstract. It would depend on my level of obsession, the nature of the con, what was on offer. Suffice to say, I’d have potentially have paid a lot more for the Cleveland tickets than I did, but I wouldn’t be prepared to pay for that experience again. I might be for something else. Potentially, I’d pay a lot, but value is the ket factor.
9) Most important thing is meeting up with people I know.
10) It doesn’t both me in the least whether a convention if fan run or professional.
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Date: 2003-12-16 04:00 pm (UTC)2)The ones I've been to before were here where I live, but there hasn't been a decent one in eons. The one I plan to go to next year is in another country. Why? 'Cause they don't hold DragonCon in Canada. (Basic logic?)
3)I'm going to one out of country next year 'cause it's been years since I've gone more than 300km from home & I like to travel.
4)Why do I go? For fun, to see my fellow nutcases ;) & talk to people I don't normally get to talk to face-to-face like some of my fav. authors, plus there's the Dealers' Room... =droolslobberslobberdrool=
5) I've been.
6) I haven't been in over 10 years so I couldn't say
7) WTF?! They never had anything like that at any con I was ever at!
8)Hmmm... I think someone forgot a question here
9) I go to have *fun. To me it's all fun. If it wasn't fun, it'd be work & for that I can stay home.
10) Oh geez.. *Fan run. Fan run cons are a blast; company run cons remind me of eating in a cafeteria.
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