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Re: Virtual SD Comic-Con Programming?
« Reply #75 on: July 07, 2020, 06:48:54 AM »
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This is disappointing news...almost nothing will be live? I was wondering and looking forward to seeing how they would pull off live events on a larger scale than other online events, and that is my answer.  It ain't happening.

Honestly, I'm kinda glad most of it isn't live. It means less chance for technical errors, or panels being Zoom Bombed depending on how they're doing things.

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Re: Virtual SD Comic-Con Programming?
« Reply #76 on: July 07, 2020, 11:00:48 AM »
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This is disappointing news...almost nothing will be live? I was wondering and looking forward to seeing how they would pull off live events on a larger scale than other online events, and that is my answer.  It ain't happening.

I'm also disappointed that it's not live.  Live streamed events have that extra special something that recorded events don't.  Just like in person live events, the panelists can respond to the audience if it's live.  That doesn't happen with prerecorded events.  It's not as fun.

I don't see why the scale would have been prohibitive.  The streams didn't have to go through a common point at CCI.  Scheduling would have been their biggest contribution. Then each panel could have been put on independently.  It's not hard to live stream on youtube.  Youtubers with 50 or 5000 or 500,000 subscribers do it all the time.  I'm sure the studios could have figured it out.

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Honestly, I'm kinda glad most of it isn't live. It means less chance for technical errors, or panels being Zoom Bombed depending on how they're doing things.

You can deal with it the same way that a heckler is dealt with at a live panel, it's even easier online.  A moderator mutes anyone causing trouble.  There are live streams on youtube all the time.  The technical issues have been worked out.  There aren't that many stream breakers.  Even if an occasional stream breaks, just move on to another stream.
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Re: Virtual SD Comic-Con Programming?
« Reply #77 on: July 07, 2020, 11:40:21 AM »
Eh, I'm just happy we're even getting this many panels to begin with. I wasn't expecting much so I'll take what I can get. If that means they're already recorded to make it easier for everyone, including the guests who might now be stuck at home with family/kids, or getting back to actually filming, then so be it. This entire thing is hitting me hard right now, and I'm just trying to think/be positive about it.

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Re: Virtual SD Comic-Con Programming?
« Reply #78 on: July 07, 2020, 11:50:34 AM »
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If that means they're already recorded to make it easier for everyone, including the guests who might now be stuck at home with family/kids, or getting back to actually filming, then so be it.

I doubt they are gathering people together to record the panels.  That doesn't make sense.  So they are doing it the same way panels and streams have been done during this pandemic.  Everyone is at home and it's a video conference.  That's how Amazon did The Boys panel a few days ago.  So it would be just as easy to do it live as to record it.

Doing it live makes it an event.  Watching a recording just makes it another youtube video.

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Re: Virtual SD Comic-Con Programming?
« Reply #79 on: July 07, 2020, 11:56:24 AM »
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I doubt they are gathering people together to record the panels.  That doesn't make sense.  So they are doing it the same way panels and streams have been done during this pandemic.  Everyone is at home and it's a video conference.  That's how Amazon did The Boys panel a few days ago.  So it would be just as easy to do it live as to record it.

Doing it live makes it an event.  Watching a recording just makes it another youtube video.

I never said they were gathering people somewhere to film? But if someone is filming at home, where kids/family are around, I don't mind/care if being recorded ahead of time helps with that. Not every panel is a panel with a celebrity who has someone to wrangle people. Some of these panels are going to have every day people who are still trying to balance everything going on in their lives on top of trying to take part in this.


 It's hilarious that we're going back and forth about this when in the end, it doesn't matter. It is what it is.

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Re: Virtual SD Comic-Con Programming?
« Reply #80 on: July 07, 2020, 12:10:15 PM »
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I never said they were gathering people somewhere to film? But if someone is filming at home, where kids/family are around, I don't mind/care if being recorded ahead of time helps with that. Not every panel is a panel with a celebrity who has someone to wrangle people. Some of these panels are going to have every day people who are still trying to balance everything going on in their lives on top of trying to take part in this.


 It's hilarious that we're going back and forth about this when in the end, it doesn't matter. It is what it is.

I didn't say you did.  I was pointing out that whether it's live or recorded it's done the same way, from wherever they are.  Whether that's in a studio with a professional camera, at home with a webcam or someone stops walking on the street for a few minutes and steams in from their phone.  So it's all a matter of picking a time.  Whether that's now for a recorded session or a few days from now for a live event, it's the same amount of effort.  Either way kids have to be dealt with, people have to be wrangled.  Even before the pandemic, it was accepted that kids wander in and out of video conferences.  Many times that's the highlight of it.

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Re: Virtual SD Comic-Con Programming?
« Reply #81 on: July 07, 2020, 12:10:28 PM »
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Re: Virtual SD Comic-Con Programming?
« Reply #82 on: July 07, 2020, 12:49:05 PM »
I agree live panels would be more exciting. There's just something you can feel about them. It makes even the glitches and screw-ups more charming, somehow.

But everyone has their own feeling on that, and TBH I can't really get excited about any of this virtual programming anyway, so whatever's easiest for the panelists is probably the best way to go.

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Re: Virtual SD Comic-Con Programming?
« Reply #83 on: July 07, 2020, 01:11:11 PM »
It would be great if at least SOME of the programming was live. Perhaps if they hear early feedback on this they may do more  live.  I will watch some panels, either way. Hmm...I wonder if they will have them up for a specific period of time and then take them down. Hmmmm  ::)
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Re: Virtual SD Comic-Con Programming?
« Reply #84 on: July 07, 2020, 01:13:09 PM »
I think one big problem with live panels is timings for those who are not based in the US. So a scheduled live panel on late afternoon PST, would be early hours GMT.

Just thinking how a live panel could go down the pan if all participants have bad Internet and it keeps dropping out. At least with a pre-record it can be edited to look like no problems.


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Re: Virtual SD Comic-Con Programming?
« Reply #85 on: July 07, 2020, 01:19:49 PM »
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I think one big problem with live panels is timings for those who are not based in the US. So a scheduled live panel on late afternoon PST, would be early hours GMT.

Just thinking how a live panel could go down the pan if all participants have bad Internet and it keeps dropping out. At least with a pre-record it can be edited to look like no problems.

True. It can also be edited so that no one says anything the studio doesn't like. :/ 
Live panels could be left up for 24 hours or something, so that the time-zone disadvantaged (or people with work or childcare obligations) could watch at a better time for them.

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Re: Virtual SD Comic-Con Programming?
« Reply #86 on: July 07, 2020, 02:07:55 PM »
I'm sort of ambivalent towards this approach. There are pros and cons. I do agree with the statement that it'll be just like watching any other youtube video.

Pro: We get panels! Yay!!! 
They will run smoothly as any technical issues would have been worked out in production. They will be edited and likely have a little more professional feel to them.

Con: See above. Sometimes the most special things about live panels are the technical issues, unedited slips (or language) and other unexpected moments that will likely be missing. There's also the feeling of being part of a shared experience with hundreds or thousands of others. It's not going to feel the same.

Pro: I can build a schedule on my own time that allows to me to watch the panels I'm interested in seeing.

Con: See above. You ever park yourself in Hall H or Ballroom 20 for a day mostly to get a good seat and wait for a panel that comes on later in the afternoon. At first, you groan over the prospect of putting up with uninteresting panels. And then comes that one panel you otherwise probably wouldn't have seen and it actually sounds interesting. The cast seems cool. You decide to give it a try and suddenly you have another must see show. Probably going to happen much less this year.

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Re: Virtual SD Comic-Con Programming?
« Reply #87 on: July 07, 2020, 05:12:18 PM »
I can't complain about this approach either. To me, the gap between a real SDCC and a virtual live SDCC is about a million times bigger than the gap between a virtual live SDCC and a virtual pre-recorded SDCC...so after the huge disappointment of them having to cancel, I just can't really bring myself to feel any further disappointment about whether or not anything they can salvage lives up to my expectations.

If pre-recording works better for SDCC and its panelists for a free event with 300-400 panels, that's ok with me.
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Re: Virtual SD Comic-Con Programming?
« Reply #88 on: July 07, 2020, 06:35:55 PM »
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I think one big problem with live panels is timings for those who are not based in the US. So a scheduled live panel on late afternoon PST, would be early hours GMT.

Just thinking how a live panel could go down the pan if all participants have bad Internet and it keeps dropping out. At least with a pre-record it can be edited to look like no problems.

For people that can't watch a live panel live, they can stream it later.  Youtube streams aren't watch it now or miss it.  Streams are available for viewing later.  Doing them live is the best of both worlds.  That is unless CCI is going to show the streams once and then delete them.  If that's the case, recorded or live then it's a problem for people that can't watch it at the time it's available.

I'm not sure how much editing there will be.  Even pre-covid, shows like Conan were pretty much broadcast as they happened in studio.  Now, shows like Ready Room don't look very post edited polished.  It just looks like a capture of the stream as it happened.  I still wonder why they don't send out better cameras to the talent at home.  It's one thing if it is a spur of the moment thing,  It's another when it's a planned show.

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Re: Virtual SD Comic-Con Programming?
« Reply #89 on: July 07, 2020, 07:12:35 PM »
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