If you’ve been in the San Diego Comic-Con Exhibit Hall in the last few years you know it’s a little nuts. But for everyone who hasn’t been there recently (or at all) I wanted to get a quick video of what it’s like. So on Sunday I walked from Artists’ Alley on one end all the way to row 100 on the other, as fast as I could walk in the crowd (which is not fast.)
If I do this again next year I’ll do a few things differently. One: hold the camera still and focus more on things, so I don’t swing around so much and make people seasick. Two: use a frigging GoPro (sorry for the jerkyness in the second half, my arms were worn out.) And three: film on Saturday instead of Sunday, because there’s a lot more cosplay on Saturdays.
Thanks to Jada Scarbrough for the loan of her iPhone, my little Samsung didn’t have nearly enough memory for this. (Plus the sound cancelling on the iPhone made for an interesting effect when it caught little bits of conversations as they went by.) (Oh, and the cut in the middle is when I paused to deal with a storage issue.) Thank you to everybody in the crowd who put up with the crazy person walking with her phone over her head for 17 minutes, shout out if you spot yourself!
Video and editing by Elizabeth Wallace