Vividcon

Greetings, vid fans! Important news follows about schedule changes for the VividCon finale, so please read:

Y'all? You sent some vids. Wow, did you send some vids. Including second priority and non-attending vids, we received a record 63 vid submissions for Premieres. A big thank you to everyone who sent or contributed to a vid. This is pretty incredible.

All together, across all shows, the total number of premiering vids submitted to VividCon shows this year is about 150 vids. 

If you're wondering, "how the heck are they going to fit all those vids?" This is where important schedule changes come into play!

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The updated VividCon con schedule:

http://vividcon.com/vividcon-programming-schedule-2018/

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Schedule changes:

Premieres will now run from 7:00pm - 10:45pm. The show will run in three one-hour blocks split by fifteen-minute breaks. 

For this reason, Vid Karaoke has been cancelled. Apologies if you were looking forward to it! There simply isn't time. 

Vid Review will start promptly at 9:30am on Saturday morning and run from 9:30am - 12:00pm. 

In Depth Vid Review will also start at 9:30am on Sunday, to allow time to discuss more vids. It will run 9:30am - 12:00pm.

VividPrompts has become Also Premiering, a show combining VividPrompts, second priority and non-attending vids from Premieres, and vids overflowing from other shows. 

Due to the volume of submissions to other shows, we had to shuffle a couple of the themed shows around, which then resulted in a lot of moving pieces that also had to be shifted around, so changes have also been made to the panel and themed vidshow schedule. We did this to the best of our ability, keeping in mind known factors about panelist schedules and possible conflicts. If you are a panelist who now has a scheduling conflict, please let us know ASAP at vvctech@gmail.com.

Nearly New, which was and is scheduled to run in the Comet room opposite Vid Review, had to be split into Nearly New (two hours of first priority vids) and More of Nearly New (a third hour of second priority vids). More of Nearly New will show in Comet in a timeslot TBD. 

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Questions about the con schedule can be left here as comments or emailed to vvctech@gmail.com. Thanks again for sending in your vids! 

Submission deadlines for VividCon shows:

April 29 - Club Vivid
May 13 - VividPrompts
May 20 - Nearly New
May 27 - Challenge
June 3 - Self Portrait
June 10 - There to Here 
June 17 - Premieres

Important vid submission reminders:

Premiering vids can be no longer than five minutes. If the vid you plan on premiering in any show is over 05:00, you must contact vvctech@gmail.com to discuss it with a staff member. Whether or not we can accommodate you will depend on how far over five minutes your runtime is, how full we anticipate the vidshow being, flexibility of individual vidshows to run over their allotted time, and so on. 

We anticipate high volumes of vid submissions this year. That means second priority vids are unlikely to make it into most shows. That said, we still want you to submit any second priority vids you want to send in! We'll place whatever we can in the shows, and all submitted shows will have a tickbox option to roll over vids to vid streaming if there isn't room for them in the shows at the con.

If you are planning on submitting vids, know that our deadlines aren't as soft as they have been in previous years. We're going to have a lot of premiering vids coming in for a number of shows, and our tech schedule will need to run on time, so deadline extensions are unlikely. All vid deadlines hit on Sundays this year to give vidders the full weekend, which we hope will help with last minute vidding. If you need an extension, you can email vvctech@gmail.com, but please be understanding if we can't grant you one this year. 

Help us plan ahead!

If you already know what you'll be submitting for Premieres and/or Challenge, you can help us immensely by filling out this survey:

VividCon 2018 Premieres & Challenge Survey

The more we know about how many vids we'll be getting (and how long they are, and what fandoms we're looking at), the better we can plan ahead. Even if you aren't 100% sure what you're sending in, please take a moment to fill out the survey if you can.