Raylenth

the Plat poster will apparently be available some time tomorrow afternoon. Hopefully.

Whilst everyone did the best they could on a difficult day, I too am a bit peeved with the non emptying. Whilst I totally understand why that happened at no point did I find that out. I had to skip the Moffat/Gattiss and Andrew's talk, and leave the others very early to get to other shoots and to get other things done,so at no pint did I know they weren't emptying the halls. Yes when we were led in from S7 I did note there were people still there but was too tired to realise that was probably what happened. I wasted time queuing unnecessarily.

Shell and Murph, when you go in bear left and you will come to photo area 4, just the other side of it is the ticket sales desk. The FAQ sheet they gave out with the tickets today says you can collect your pack from next to the sales desk. Whilst today there were different area's for each package to collect their bags from, tomorrow everyone outstanding will all collect from the same area's.

Same with the Plats, they probably weren't ready.

Thanks Erics.

Did Louise change with the update? Maybe they printed the ID's before they made the changes to the schedule? Maybe just speak to the crew if you get a chance on Saturday. I'm about to leave to register, was it easy or manic?

Thanks Murph. There goes my hope of being able to get a couple out of the way first thing more than likely!

I think you are correct, but even if we can get in 15 mins before would be helpful. As the auto's will start at 9, and particularly Ben's first session, it makes more sense to have the first batch of attendee's ready in the queue to start at 9 than to have the guests ready waiting for us to rush over!

Very much so, I've done my schedules with notes such as 'go straight to....after' 'leave talk by...' but really it's hard to predict. I've marked up my not to miss items but it will probably completely change once there. On another note, has it been mentioned anywhere when we will actually be let into the halls? I know opening is 9am but any guess to whether that means they will let us in only at 9 or we can go in earlier but nothing will be happening until 9? I don't particularly fancy having to race around at 9.

Additionally, I've completely forgotten about and not even looked at the schedule for the stuff going on on the second stage as I don't think there's going to be any chance of doing any of them.

it's certainly possible, and as you say there's no harm in asking. I'm thinking of doing the same with Lara's first shoot. It's only 30 mins and from what I can recall of my schedule it would be really handy to be able to do it later. I'm going to see how everything goes on Saturday with the many shoots and talks I have to do and I'll see how many auto's I manage to get done. I've resigned myself to not being able to see any of the vis effects talks which is a shame and I may only be able to see half of the Ladies and Saturday's group talk but I may have to sacrifice them to get other stuff done.

For day tickets I think they will just scan the ticket when you go in.

Golden, it's been said that at DSTL which was very similar in structure, you bought the 8x10's at a separate stall specifically set up for that and not in the auto line as at LFCC. I don't know if it will be the same but just wanted to pass it on in case it is like DSTL so everyone is prepared. I went to the bank yesterday to get all my money out and got £30 of it in £1 coins so i'd be covered either way.

For some reason I couldn't merge the 2 new schedules easily this time so I just printed off the photo shoot one, highlighted my bits and added little boxes down the side next to the times with the talks on so they are all on 1 page.

It'll be fine Ericsdonor. As long as you have a rough plan and know what you can accept missing/leaving early ect to get to things for you should be OK.

It's as simple as go to one, then as soon as you are done go to the other, you should have enough time to go to both but the rule is if you think you have to leave as time is getting tight speak to the crew and let them know you have a clash. I'm A and on Saturday I've got 6 shoots one after another and 2 of them are at the same time, so I've done a time schedule of what I have to be at when and when I have to leave to get to thing's.

If you have printed your tickets you don't need to do anything else, just take the print outs.

Yeah, I'm not the best with technology so don't bother downloading apps and such, I'd be paranoid that I'd try and call the stuff up and not find it or acidentally delete it. I feel safer having it all printed.

Fruitbat, I've always intended to print my tickets so haven't paid a massiv amount of attention to discussions of apps and such but IIRC as long as you have the app and can call your ticket up on it to be scanned that should be fine. MAke sure your phone has plenty of power though!

I'm going to get there asap on Saturday to see if I can get it by 9.30 and so be able to do the group talk in the afternoon. Fingers crossed. Not sure how soon people will be queuing up for Marks Saturday signing though. I was gonna see if I can start to queue when I get out of Steven Moffat/Mark Gatiss talk (this will mean missing out on Clive Mantle's shoot though but that's the way it goes) .. This will hopefully give me a chance to get his auto before Ben's talk starts. If it looks like I'll be nowhere near the front of the queue by that time I'll give up and queue on Sunday but will have to miss a couple of talks in the morning to fit that and all my shoots in. Excited but a tad nervous too. That kind of makes it easier, at least once we have registered, got our ticket and seen our number we will have some idea of where we will be in the queue.

I think so many of us would contribute to buy QS a drink in thanks we would also need to buy her a new liver at the same time!

I guess with Ben they may subdivide it into ticket numbers if everyone turns up at the same time? Well either that or it'll just be first come first served after the VIP's. I think we will just have to see what happens on the day.

I'm like "I know I'm going EventBrite, you don't have to keep rubbing it that we aren't quite there yet!"

I haven't upgraded, I've been platinum from day 1 but Eventbrite have spammed me tonight as well, I've had 5 event reminder emails all at the same time!

Glad you arrived safely jhw.