[ENNIES] Post Production Notes

[kkoie]

I think your presentation was excellent. If anything, the number of glitches in the presentation were minor in comparison to some of the errors that occured in the rest of the convention. I think you did a fine job. Anyway look at it this way... at least you didn't start the whole ceremony off with a big production number commemorating Disney by having Snow White onstage with other characters and singing songs. Otherwise the ennies would be getting sued ;-)

 

[Teflon Billy]

I think your presentation was excellent. If anything, the number of glitches in the presentation were minor in comparison to some of the errors that occured in the rest of the convention. I think you did a fine job. Anyway look at it this way... at least you didn't start the whole ceremony off with a big production number commemorating Disney by having Snow White onstage with other characters and singing songs. Otherwise the ennies would be getting sued ;-)

Did that happen somewhere at the con?

 

[BrooklynKnight]

Time for me to Chime in.

I also thought the FFG guys were lighthearting it.

As for next year, I hope to take more responsilbity upon myself to help Mike and Russ and everyone with the Ennies.


Some of my own ideas are as follows.

#1 Extend the event and include catering. After the Ennies everyone broke up into smaller groups to go to various Bars for the EN Gathering. This is not fair to all the ENworlders who attend and are under 21. (Myself included, this year, but not next.) So...The En Gathering and Ennies can be catered in a room next to the ballroom. A full reception where we can all gather to talk and eat and relax after the awards.

#2 Assigned Seating: although we had "4" ushers, 2 were by the doors and I was the only one running around looking for Nominees and Presenters to sit in front. Mike felt that it fell apart towards the end but I feel it was working and could have worked better with some pre-show announcements. So for next year, all Nominee's and Presenters will have assigned seats given to them before the show, Ushers one or two assigned to each door will tell them where to go, and an usher at the front will place them in their seats.

#3 Ask Peter for some oscillating fans to move air. If we dont cater at LEAST get cups and water in there.

Wishfull thinking:
I'd like to present an award next year.....though thats not up to me.

 

[Hecatol]

Michael, I know from experience (on both sides) how easy it would be for you, the "target", to perceive what they perhaps intended as lighthearted comments as anything but. It's a bad situation to be in, and considering the time and effort you obviously spent on this, I certainly do feel for you. Hopefully you will be able to forget about these minor flubs and take pride in the stellar job you did with the presentation. EN World is lucky to have you!

 

[kkoie]

Did that happen somewhere at the con?

No I was making a joke , someone mentioned even the oscars have screwed up and so I mentioned one of their biggest goofs, the opening musical they had that commemorated Disney's anniversery, only they never got Disney's permission and got sued.

 

[Piratecat]

Yup, the FFG guys were making a joke. It must not have seemed it to you, but everyone was laughing - but at the comments, not at you, because he was being funny. You did a great job.

Glitches happen, but nothing was major and the damn thing worked. It looked great, and you should stop beating yourself up and be proud. You deserve to be.

A note for next year: the first few silver medal winners were also the last product shown. I liked the later pattern of mixing up the nominees more.

 

[Michael Morris]

Heh - that one isn't my fault. I put the nominees in the order they were first announced on the site. It isn't my fault that more than a few last nominees got the silver. I didn't juggle the list because that was likely to confuse everyone.

And I do believe that if the last slide never had a winner, folks would catch onto and complain about that too.

 

[Kid Charlemagne]

As a video production professional who has worked powerpoint/awards ceremonies for major corporations, I think things went fairly well. Considering the fact that this was a no-budget, volunteer, primarily 1-person operation, I think you did an exemplary job.

There were only a couple gaffes, and unfortunately they all came close together which caused a little confusion for a moment. As others have mentioned, the occasional gaffe is to be expected in a live show. You don't have to like it, but accept it and move on.

I'm not sure having the companies make their own slides will necessarily fly. They may not have the time or resources to do so, and you lose control over file size, etc. You might consider having one of the various artistic folks here create teh slides based on your specifications, and then you'd olnly have to compile them - this works best if you can get it all done well ahead of time.

Suggestion for future shows:

1) Try to get the main presenter there to run through the slides the day before-hand. Or at least have some one go through the list of nominees with you as you page through the slides. Extra eyeballs will help catch things like the wrong cover for the one product. Doing it a day before-hand will allow you time to fix things.

2) Have backup lists of nominees so that if someone misplaces theirs (like Mike did) there's an extra at the podium, as well as at the powerpoint PC.

3) Use the Powerpoint presentation printout to help keep track of things - this also acts as yet another backup on point 2).

 

[Michael Morris]

Again, it wasn't powerpoint, it was Macromedia Flash. Next year that will be far more apparent as I definitely do not intend to let the slides be as static. But I didn't have the time to animate them. Indeed, I'll be starting later this week building the animations for next year's awards.

 

[Dextra]

Actually, Michael, WRT the Midnight cover fiasco, quite a lot of people found it funny, ourselves included. I didn't find that FFG was that ungracious about it.
As Jake said, a perfect awards show is a boring awards show. Sure, there's room for improvement, but we've got a year. Next years' will rock.

And to respond to another comment elsewhere, I didn't think that the show was too long, and was glad that those involved in the teams of productions were allowed to speak up when accepting their award. If the show was much longer, we would've been cranky about missing out on valuable schmoozing and boozing time, but it was just about perfect.