Capfest UpDate... Part 2

Hello fellow Capfest attendees,

I thought I'd use this update to talk about some potential great news.
Now bear with me as this will be a long update with lots of ideas thrown around.
And might even need some feedback
Or help exploring these ideas.

Ever since I've talked about having Capfest here in Las Vegas
I wanted some special nights for us to do some cap related things.
Which would have us convene at someone's place.
Since I was going to get a new apartment, I thought that would work out perfect.

Well, things have changed and our crowd might be too big for a small apartment.
And since I work at a casino, I have certain perks.

Well it had occurred to me that using one of our convention rooms(ballrooms) for our Capfest headquarters would be fantastic.
It the perfect size to fit our group in.
We have all the media equipment to set up basically anything for our needs.
And other things in general that we might need or want.

I was at work today and I checked into renting out one of the convention rooms.
I was told that I could get a special discount or having something worked out.
Now this is something that I will be spending out of my own money
Which I think is fair since I'm not spending any kind of money for travel or hotel needs.

The question is..."Do we want the convention room for one day or two?"
Price includes set up and clean up and we will have access to the room all day long
Or if for two days then all day long for those two days.

Why do we even need a headquarters room?

Well this is what I would like for our group to do.
One thing or multiple things one each main night(Fri & Sat)

Mystery Science Theater 3000 night- We all decide on a MST3K episode to watch and enjoy.
And then even the possibility to have MST3K episodes to contentiously play as were in and out of the convention room.

A BRAND NEW Rifftrax or Cinematic Titanic screening- If it's timed perfectly, there should be a brand new Rifftrax or Cinematic Titanic episode out at or around this time.
What I would prefer is a New Rifftrax short followed by a New Cinematic Titanic episode.

Caption This! Night- This is where we would take selected movies, TV shows, cartoons, commercials and infomercials that are screen grabbed
and projected on a screen and we sit and cap like were were doing it on our websites.

Bad Movie Riff Night- We all select a bad, bad movie to sit and watch and cap together.

Now of course these things can be put together so we are doing two things each night
Instead of cramming in everything into one night, leaving one night stale.

Another reason might be if some of the events we plan to do is outside and we get rained out.
Slight posswibility, but if it happens we have a place to convene.

I mentioned that there are extras to the headquarters room.
Nice little extras that would make out movie and caption nights more enjoyable.

First off, you can't have a movie without popcorn,
I'm looking into getting us one of those old fashioned popcorn cart poppers.
So we will contentiously have theater type popcorn.

Another thing is beverages.
I'm pretty sure they won't let us have alcohol in the convention room.
I'm still looking into this.
But I have the option to have bottled water and canned soda provided for us in the room.
I'm not sure how much I will be charged for this, but since I work there, I might be able to cut a deal.

Food will be another option during the events.
Our best bet is for the movie nights, is to order pizza for Sabbaro's
Which is located down in our foodcourt.
We can order full pizzas and bring them upstairs with us.
Other options for food include Subway and Fuddrucker's.

If you need to stay up with caffinee, we have a Seattle's Best coffee place which is open til 11pm

Now other "little" things I would like for the room is some sort of Guestbook for all of us to sign.
Another thing I would like is some sort of official banner and poster board that stands up against an easel
That signifies it's Capfest 2009.
The banner I would like to hang above the door and the poster board is to put with the easel just outside the door
all pointing the way to where our room is.

Another thing I would like is one or two official Caption sign in page that hangs on the wall(huge sheet of white paper with the picture)
Where it's a picture we all have to cap and sign.
It would be cool if we could place about six or eight of them all along the wall of the headquarters room.

One more sort of important thing
and I can get this from the casino, but might be charged for this.
I think it would be easier to see if someone that is driving into Vegas that has a projection system that can be hooked up to a computer(using my laptop)
This is something else I'll be asking about when I go to work next.

I also wanted to ask if anybody has ideas on how to "dress up" the room more.
Making the room more to our style.

Other bits of information about the headquarters room.
Smoking- is done just outside in the lobby area.
Bathrooms- are on the same level just around the corner.
Mail access- we have a mailroom just outside the headquartes room if you need to mail a letter.

Internet access?
The only place where we have free internet access is downstairs in the Seattle's Best Coffee house lounge.
This will also be the place for out afternoon event of Coffee & Postcards.
This loungs has two HDTV's and lots of leather furniture and table and chairs where we can all spread out and cap our postcards.

Personally, I would like to have this headquarters room for both days.
I think this would be nice for everyone to sit and relax.
Have a place to watch our movies.
A place where we can come and go.
Also a place to meet up for when we need to meet up in the vans to go out driving.

So I want to ask all of you what you think of this idea
and need your input to make this headquarters room more our style?
What else can we do??

Another update will be out shortly.
More to tell!!

john steffens (boskolost@gmail.com)

AKA: Bosko