I want to give you guys a little blog post before I head out for the last day. Saturday was possibly the most insane, long and exhausting day of my life. Both Jermain (my camera man) and myself had late nights and had to get back to the Habourfront Centre for 11am before the first panel. Unfortunately we missed the presentation of the IWCC Profile Study.

            From the 5 seconds that I did catch the presenters of the study said that YouTube is leading in online video distribution with Dailymotion leading in the second slot. That I already knew, too bad I didn’t catch more of it.

            Anyway after that we filmed five panels back to back that were an hour long. Jermain and I had five minutes to reset in between each panel. Not much time to change batteries, switch out memory cards and dump footage. The worst part is that both of us forgot to bring something to dump the footage so we could free up the memory cards. That was an adventure and a half. Jermain did an amazing job problem solving that us. You think you bring enough SD cards to prepare for the end of the world, but you don’t.

            Some of the panels were great, some of them had one person talking for a while. Either way we’re gonna try and make our coverage of it interesting. Cut out all the lag.

            After doing that for five hours straight. We took a break for dinner, and came back just in time for the awards show. Jermain and I managed to get some great footage of that! I’m excited to sort through it. Congrats to all the winners! I’m going to try and compile a list over the next couple of days.

            The awards were short and sweet and then we interviewed panelist for a couple hours. A lot of the people we caught from out of time were amazing to talk to. Jeff Burns, Bernie Su, Enrique Soissa, and Dominik Rausch had a lot of cool things to say about the panels and TO WebFest. Hopefully we’re gonna get more out-of-towners today. After that I went out for half a drink with a few friends and called it quits before I fell asleep standing up!

I’m very excited today for Jeff Bruns’ Super Geeked Up live at TO WebFest! I’ll try and tweet about that if I’m not holding a camera.

The first day of T.O. WebFest was a lot of trial and error. My second in command Jermain, aka the person that keeps me sane, helped out my getting me some extra equipment. We arrived at 2:30, and left around 11:30. Jermain stuck around a little bit longer to enjoy the opening night party.

            The first day had no panels, only two screenings and an after party. The Press Pass spent most of the day getting interviews. Everyone answered the same set of questions, we kept it fun and related to web series. I had a hard time keeping track of all the people I interviewed.

            It reminds me a lot of when the IWCC had their launch party last year. It was this month last year to be exact. I hosted their live stream, where I interviewed whoever the IWCC brought to me for about two straight hours. I don’t remember half the people I interviewed that day. Today felt a little similar, only with a Sci-Fi/Fantasy as a break. The screenings were fantastic.

            But I’ll talk a little bit more about the interviews before I call it a night. We interviewed some awesome people! Everyone had their own take on the questions and it was neat to see the different answers we got. Lots of people were taking pictures of the interviews. If anyone wants to post their pictures in the comments below that would be awesome! We also interviewed Suzette Laqua, executive producer and founder of Vancouver Web Fest. She was awesome and offered us a press pass for Vancouver Web Fest next year! Very excited!