Conventions

Whats the best way to get from Long Beach Airport to the Anaheim Convention Center?

I’m leaving tomorrow for Blizzcon, and I wanted to know what you thought was the easiest way to get from Long Beach, where we are landing, to the Convention Center in Anaheim. I’ve thought of a cab and a shuttle, I just can’t find any good shuttles with their schedules online. Thanks a lot!

As you can see, bus service will take you almost 3 hours. A shuttle will take about 30minutes.
Airport shuttles typically don’t have "schedules" in California. You can pre-arrange your arrival with the shuttle company and you will leave for your destination right away. You might have a small wait if someone else is arriving around the same time with the same destination.

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Is there a place to buy a six pack of beer near the dallas convention center?

I am going to be staying near the convention center in January 2012.

Try the bar across the street.

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What video gaming conventions are on in Europe in 2012?

I’d like to bring my boyfriend to a video gaming convention somewhere in Europe next year – anyone know of when and where any conventions/expos are on? Thanks!

The Games Convention

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How is the narrative structure of a film influenced by its Generic Conventions?

How is the narrative structure of a film influenced by its Generic Conventions? for a Thriller film

A ‘thriller’ film has to comply with certain descriptive elements to get into the genre. No matter how many quickly-delivered lines, femmes fatales, fight scenes in car parks or depressed guys drinking too much the film contains, if it has no plot it isn’t a thriller. But the generic conventions (no caps needed) are markers by which films can be assigned a genre, and by which the marketing department knows who to market to and which DVDs to put a trailer for the movie at the beginning of.

First you need to identify generic conventions of the thriller genre, which is a process that will probably go hand in hand with describing the limits of the genre by a mixture of description, theory and case studies (is the Maltese Falcon a thriller, or a noir? How much do they overlap?). Next you need to become sufficiently familiar with thriller movie plots (Wikipedia can be a big help here, though obviously you can’t quote it in your work) to determine elements they have in common. Most genres can be reduced to pastiche and when you do this you are exposing the most stable elements of the genre. What makes a thriller plot?

Finally, you can look at each in terms of the other. The thriller usually figures a protagonist who is resourceful and brave, but not used to the dangerous situations he/she is thrust into by the plot; a lawyer (the Pelican Brief) for instance. Sex is not usually a motive or a major part of the movie. These types of generalizations from observation are what will enable you to identify genre features. Then you will be able to see that certain types of characters or settings would violate genre conventions so completely as to catapult the movie out of its genre into another one, or into a liminal space between two or more stable genres (like True Grit, which is both a detective story and a Western) – or into a new kind of postmodern metagenre created by shamelessly mating two or more incompatible genres (Cowboys and Aliens).

Richard Maltby is a good writer on this type of stuff – his ‘Introduction to Hollywood Cinema’ covers genre in depth but without becoming incomprehensible, and it’s about £20 on Amazon. I’m not him, by the way.

Good luck!

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What are the main conventions of indie music?

So main conventions of indie musi?. What do you mainly see? What comes up the most? What is it? I want to know what comes up in indie music vdeos and the CD covers? Also how would you represent an indie band?

Indie is just short for independent. It isn’t a genre.

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What are the links between context and conventions?

I am writing an essay on how understanding context and conventions help to understand intertextuality.
I have it all planned out, and I’m doing the paragraph about context and conventions, but I can only think of a few links.
Can you think of any, other than the language use?

i dunno
sorry i cant help

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What are the generic conventions of Biography films?

I have to look at a genre for my Media coursework, and I decided to do Biography films. But I am not sure what the generic conventions are, as unlike other genres all the films are so different. So if anyone knows any, even if it is just one, I would really like to know.

As in biographic or autobiographic documentary or as in a feature film?

A biographic documentary should set out to be as unbiased as possible. There should be no flowery language. It should set out to tell the truth. Pictures should bot be forgetten.

An autobiographical documentary can whatever you want but there should be something. Someone sitting on there couch for 2 hours may lead towards boring.

Feature films should be as truthful and unbiased as possible. Not everything may be included but the successful ones (Schindlers List, A Kings Speech) show faulty people.

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Where can I download a compilation of the Geneva Conventions and the additional protocols?

I had hoped that somewhere, the ICRC would have a complete copy of what is now known as the Geneva Conventions (four conventions, three protocols) available for download. Apparently, they don’t, which is somewhat frustrating for information on international law concerning victims of war. A single compiled copy of all conventions and protocols would be very useful.

This is the best I could find you, there is not a lot out there on any search engine, this one is from a yahoo search; http://www.softlist.net/search/geneva-convention/

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How do dancers become assistants at conventions?

Whenever I go to conventions/workshops there are always assistants that help the choreographers/teachers. I was wondering how you can become an assistant for a convention? Do you audition, do they ask you, do they randomly pick dancers?

Thanks!

most of the time i think when you win the whole convention (like if the convention has a nationals) then you can tour with the convention. In the dance world it is also all about who you know. Some of those assistants could have teachers that grew up with the teachers at the convention. It all depends on the convention.

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Place to send e-mail to complain about Civil War reenactment being cancelled in St. Charles, MO.?

I recently found out that after 20 years, the City of St. Charles will no longer be hosting the Civil War reenactments at Frontier Park. This event has been going on for the last 20 years and has always been very enjoyable – not to mention that the hospital is close by in the event that any reenactors got injures (this happened about 3 years ago). I tried accessing the city and the convention bureau website and was not able to locate an e-mail address to write and complain about the cancellation. This has always been a great event that my husband and I have looked forward to attending as reenactors. Any ideas or suggestions on who I can contact and how to get in contact with them? There are several of us that would like to give a piece of our mind to someone about this decision.

I’m so glad it is cancelled. I’ve done seen enough of war firsthand!
Read a book.

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