Alright, the event is over! Considering the small amount of time we had, and the technical difficulties, the presentation went pretty well. Our microphones didn't work, we had no sound amplification and the Beamer-Laptop connection didn't work, so we had to put the small laptop in front of the presentation room and just let it play the video. So the audience couldn't quite enjoy big visual fireworks, but i think they got the idea.
The crowd-pleaser was the floating glitch in Hyrule Field for Ocarina of Time and the Morrowind part. On the negative side, it sometimes didn't work out to show videos while explaining some ideas, because there were 2 things demanding attention at the same time and the game sound drowned our talking from time to time. When and how to do the talking is probably the most difficult part with this kind of show type.
Also, i couldn't fully capture the presentation myself, i only have about half of the show as video footage. But i hope to get the whole thing from one of the 2 guys who were filming this completely. One of them is an editor of a german video gaming magazine (M!aniac), who will do an email interview with us to write an
article about speedrunning. The other one is producer and director of a video gaming show on a pay-tv music station, who will create a
television feature about speedrunning. We had a live interview with a professional camera and microphone on the location, which was pretty exciting. Of course we fell out of place from time to time, but i think we delivered some good ideas about speedrunning, and he promised to us that after the cutting, it will be a good interview and we won't recognize ourselves for sure
i hope it will be for the better, of course.
So, i think, we made a decent job promoting speedrunning and SDA on this weekend.
I've uploaded our extract video material to filefront, but i'm waiting to get the full filmed presentation so that i can show it as a talk with subtitles. For now, here's a
small subtitled part of the show.
The show could have been better, but i think we caught the people's attention with this and we'll probably be there again next year to make it much better, when we can prepare longer for the event. For this time, as i said, i only had one week to select the extracts, censor the zwei video, cut together the video and prepare the talk, for which i wrote the notes at the day of the event in the train.
So all's well that ends well.
