AMV - Youmacon 2013 Opening Ceremonies

This is the video I made for Youmacon 2013's Opening Ceremonies. I wanted to make a call back to the 2007 opening video. I recently obtained a video camera of my own and set out to record as much footage of setup as I could to add to the video.


After seeing Iron Man 3 I loved the way they did the closing credits scene and wanted to emulate that style for the opening video I made for that year. This is what I had created for that. I still consider this to be one of my better videos.


While the framework was put down weeks in advance (the guests info, transitions, effects, ect) the actual footage of setup was all obtained on the Wednesday and Thursday prior to the convention opening. This meant I needed to take all the recorded footage I got, plus footage from a few of our media staff that provided me timelapse and other content, into the final product Thursday night prior to opening ceremonies on Friday.


Due to my schedule and needing to be in my department for content running during the time of Opening Ceremonies I wasn't able to be present for the whole event. I was there at the start and apparently the MC decided to jump ahead and the staff had to roll with it, completely forgetting to play this at the start. I left the event fuming as all the work I put into this was ultimately for naught. I did hear that it was played at the end of event and supposedly the audience enjoyed it, but I wasn't able to be there for that. This was ultimately the last year I put any effort into making Opening or Ending videos for the convention, and focused my time and energy into just running my department.