Deltasone For Sale http://www.traveladventurecinema.com/2009/09/24/it-was-a-great-conference/ Serving the Travel Adventure Documentary Industry Thu, 12 Jan 2012 05:05:37 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.1 Deltasone For Sale http://www.traveladventurecinema.com/2009/09/24/it-was-a-great-conference/comment-page-1/#comment-37 John Holod Thu, 01 Oct 2009 01:01:22 +0000 http://www.traveladventurecinema.com/?p=1060#comment-37 FREE FOOD! I didn't know there was going to be FREE FOOD! I would have canceled my shows that weekend for FREE FOOD! I miss all the good stuff! Can I at least get a voucher or rain check? Sorry I missed it. I hope I can get there next year. Thanks to all who helped put it together. FREE FOOD! I didn’t know there was going to be FREE FOOD! I would have canceled my shows that weekend for FREE FOOD!

I miss all the good stuff!

Can I at least get a voucher or rain check?

Sorry I missed it. I hope I can get there next year. Thanks to all who helped put it together.

]]> Deltasone For Sale http://www.traveladventurecinema.com/2009/09/24/it-was-a-great-conference/comment-page-1/#comment-36 Marlin Darrah Tue, 29 Sep 2009 21:53:37 +0000 http://www.traveladventurecinema.com/?p=1060#comment-36 Very nice article Ralph. Thanks. This was the first TRACS convention for me and I was delighted to meet all the other artists, the presenters and agents. I could easily see some great new friendships developing. My vote would be to keep the event in Chicago for 2010. Though I was very happy with the convention generally, I was however disappointed with the fact that about 30-40 presenters did NOT attend. Thanks to those that did attend however! Perhaps a financial subsidy to PRESENTERS would be the way to go! Artists/filmmakers bring their travel-docs to this market hoping to reach the greatest number of presenters (and thus earn bookings). We need more presenters to attend is my observation. And for our part, filmmakers need to keep striving for better quality work as well. Frankly, some previews were simply not up to the quality that audiences expect. The photography and filmmaker presentations need to improve (and INSPIRE) or the audiences will continue to evaporate. It's no secret we need to draw more baby-boomers and pre-retirement age audience members. We are up against the internet, 500 cable channels, commercial cinema and a thousand other forms of entertainment -- all luring audiences away from going to a live event such as ours. We all know creative new thinking is needed should our fascinating form of entertainment (and education) survive. I hope we can meet the challenge and reinvigorate this. Thanks to all those that helped stage the convention! Marlin Darrah Very nice article Ralph. Thanks. This was the first TRACS convention for me and I was delighted to meet all the other artists, the presenters and agents. I could easily see some great new friendships developing. My vote would be to keep the event in Chicago for 2010. Though I was very happy with the convention generally, I was however disappointed with the fact that about 30-40 presenters did NOT attend. Thanks to those that did attend however! Perhaps a financial subsidy to PRESENTERS would be the way to go! Artists/filmmakers bring their travel-docs to this market hoping to reach the greatest number of presenters (and thus earn bookings). We need more presenters to attend is my observation. And for our part, filmmakers need to keep striving for better quality work as well. Frankly, some previews were simply not up to the quality that audiences expect. The photography and filmmaker presentations need to improve (and INSPIRE) or the audiences will continue to evaporate. It’s no secret we need to draw more baby-boomers and pre-retirement age audience members. We are up against the internet, 500 cable channels, commercial cinema and a thousand other forms of entertainment — all luring audiences away from going to a live event such as ours. We all know creative new thinking is needed should our fascinating form of entertainment (and education) survive. I hope we can meet the challenge and reinvigorate this. Thanks to all those that helped stage the convention! Marlin Darrah

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