A little bit of info about the masquerade this year.
Okay, since I've gotten a few questions on why the music changed, I just wanted to explain our Masquerade coordinator's motivation for speeding the music up a bit midway through the night.
We all decided to end up playing classical and fun ball music for the first 2 to 3 hours, with a few techno songs that had piano or violin under-themes to it on the rare occasion just to wake everyone up, since let's face it...listening to classical music for three hours just doesn't work. After the masquerade ball's costume contest happened around eleven, the people with costumes on mostly left save for..one or two, so we decided to turn it into a dance.
Again, though. All of the techno was either trancy-piano-violin-undertoned, or it was composed by the Masquerade Ball coordinator, Phaorah, including the Chocobo rave mix. There were also a few random songs that got tossed in for fun. Like Thriller. (We all desperately WANT to know the whole dance, but the truth is that none of us do.)
Also, we realize that the costume contest was a shamble because of the "Secret judge" thing that ended up being a bit messed up due to our lack of marking the contestants. Next year we're either numbering people, or we're going to do a small mini-stage show contest.
Anyway, besides that honestly I had a blast at the rave, and the room always was at least somewhat full, and Pharoah hosted a good show.
Though god, do I wish that guys wouldn't have come SO DRUNK to it that they ended up making jerks of themselves. The guys popping the balloons and trying to grab on girls that we had to throw out really almost dampered the evening, but the staff pulled it out at the end. Specifically our cosplay staff sound/video technician Drew and Pharoah, the masquerade ball coordinator, and the guy who really did ALL of the work on the event.
Special thanks goes out to Amaya Demorte, Jonobi, Visual Antagonis, Eternal Serenity, Bill, and everyone else who helped with set up.
*Also posting this to masquerade section of forums under events*
Okay, since I've gotten a few questions on why the music changed, I just wanted to explain our Masquerade coordinator's motivation for speeding the music up a bit midway through the night.
We all decided to end up playing classical and fun ball music for the first 2 to 3 hours, with a few techno songs that had piano or violin under-themes to it on the rare occasion just to wake everyone up, since let's face it...listening to classical music for three hours just doesn't work. After the masquerade ball's costume contest happened around eleven, the people with costumes on mostly left save for..one or two, so we decided to turn it into a dance.
Again, though. All of the techno was either trancy-piano-violin-undertoned, or it was composed by the Masquerade Ball coordinator, Phaorah, including the Chocobo rave mix. There were also a few random songs that got tossed in for fun. Like Thriller. (We all desperately WANT to know the whole dance, but the truth is that none of us do.)
Also, we realize that the costume contest was a shamble because of the "Secret judge" thing that ended up being a bit messed up due to our lack of marking the contestants. Next year we're either numbering people, or we're going to do a small mini-stage show contest.
Anyway, besides that honestly I had a blast at the rave, and the room always was at least somewhat full, and Pharoah hosted a good show.
Though god, do I wish that guys wouldn't have come SO DRUNK to it that they ended up making jerks of themselves. The guys popping the balloons and trying to grab on girls that we had to throw out really almost dampered the evening, but the staff pulled it out at the end. Specifically our cosplay staff sound/video technician Drew and Pharoah, the masquerade ball coordinator, and the guy who really did ALL of the work on the event.
Special thanks goes out to Amaya Demorte, Jonobi, Visual Antagonis, Eternal Serenity, Bill, and everyone else who helped with set up.
*Also posting this to masquerade section of forums under events*