"Mommy! I was on TV!" XD
I'm so tired. Beware of crappy English!
As I said in my last entry I was invited to the MTV Game Awards on Nov. 20th this year as a cosplayer.
I don't know about other countries, but this was the first game award show in Germany
evar. Apparently the video game shows on MTV (Germany) have become quite popular lately so they decided to do an award show just like the MTV movie and music awards. So for this show they recruited cosplayers who were supposed to act as both audience and claqueurs.
When I got the message from MTV asking me to come I didn't really need to consider it. I mean... Games? MTV? Simon and Budi (hosts of "GameOne", a TV show on German MTV)? For free? Hell, yeah!
Since they asked me to invite some more of my cosplay friends, I dragged Anni, Cari and some more people along XD
THE RECORDING
I met up with Anni (who came all the way from Kiel) right after uni ended (about 2 p.m.), then we put on our cosplay makeup ("Panda to the rescue!!") and went to the studio/hall where everything took place.
This is what we looked like when we arrived at the dressing room at 3:30p.m.:
We were pretty much the last ones to arrive, everyone else was already chatting. We were cosplayers 15 alltogether, much less than I had expected but thanks to that I got to know everyone personally. ♥
We also finally met Janina, who was in charge of us and told us the following procedures:
Rehearsal starting at 5 p.m.
Changing from 7p.m.~8:30 p.m.
9 p.m.: Start
During the rehearsal we still wore our normal clothes, but we noticed it would get quite hot because of all the lights...
I was still soooo optimistic back then... XD
Anyways, because we weren't allowed to take pictures during the actual recording, the rehearsal was our only chance to get some photos. As MTV tried very hard to do a show for both gamers and "normal" people, there were also some non-game related things like music acts:
Left: Polarkreis 18 (#1 in Germany atm), right: Sido (a rapper who apparently wasn't really happy to be there)
The other thing that wasn't related to games even in the slightest... were the hosts! It was clear to see that they have never laid a single finger on a game pad before and they just seemed so totally unmotivated and
wrong.
Joko and Hadnet, the hosts. They wore several costumes during the show. I feel utter sympathy for the poor seamstress that had to sew 6 costumes in 1 1/2 weeks...
In case you're wondering what the hall looked like and where we were standing:
On the left side you can see one of the two stages. We were standing right above there (where you can see the children on this picture).
Anni was standing right next to me. Waving for the cameras. She knows good fanservice! XD
After the rehearsal we headed back to the changing room. Luckily I don't need much time to put on my Rao costume, so I could enjoy the buffet first. They had cold and warm dishes, both very yummy~
Then we changed into our costumes and chatted with Janina.
Me and Janina. She was so cute ♥ She really cared about us (;o;)
Next... was the show. Nervous? No. ｶﾞﾀｶﾞﾀ(((;OдOll)))ｶﾞﾀｶﾞﾀ
Well, the actual recording was nothing new to us, since we already knew everything from the rehearsal. BUT this time there was an audience below us (which made me regret wearing a mini skirt), watching uns, taking photos, pointing at us.
It was akward, but... quite fun actually, being in the limelight for some minutes XD
This photo was taken by Janina shortly before the recording started. Gosh, I'm such a camhore XD
During the show it was getting hotter and hotter and it was propably only thanks to Janina who supplied us with water that no one fainted. Himbeerpudding (who was standing second next to me) wore a black leather coat and I can only imagine how she must've felt. She was my hero of the night for bearing the heat!!
Luckily, the show only lasted 1 1/2 hours and we all were glad when we could finally escape into the cold and fresh air backstage.
Unluckily, due to the extreme temperatures I started feeling reeeaaally unwell... If it wasn't for Anni, who would be staying at my place, I would have returned home immediatley. But she has been looking forward to the after-show party ever since I invited her, so I just could not possibly ask her to go home with me. Plus, I wanted to meet some people at the after-show party, as well... I ended up going to the party... and I owe my deepest gratitude to Anni for persuading me, because: *drummroll*
*insert fanqirly squee here* I got my picture with Budi!!!oneone!!11!! He and Simon are so funny and nice... and I was like the stupidest fangirl
EVAR *headdesk*
Retropectively it was a fun night. I feel deeply honored to have shared the stage with awesome people.
Here you can see all cosplayers who took part. Sorry for the crappiness of this collage, but I just had to XD
You guys rock, I hope I'll see you again some time!!
ON AIR
The show aired first on Friday 21st and had about 3 or 4 reruns during the last week. I guess most Germans on my FL watched it (?).
If you didn't: You didn't miss anything. The show was quite fun when you were there in person, but that's propably only thanks to the people who were with me. On TV it was just plain boring. My sister watched it for some minutes and then switched the channel because she couldn't stand it XD
Well, it was the first show of its kind, so I guess it'll be better next year. Getting Simon and Budi as hosts will be a big improvement. And maybe laudators who care to pronounce the name of the game producers correctly...
As for us cosplayers it was really dissappointing to see that we had barely any screen time at all. I mean, FFVII CC won an award (best handheld game) , why wouldn't they show Mystery-Zelda (Zack) and Videros (Sepiroth)? Their costumes were absolutely stunning! I really don't know anymore why they wanted us to be there in the first place... One of the few people who actually seemed to acknowledge the pain we went through for this (standing the heat that is XD), was Lucien Kings (development manager for GTA 4), who prompted some applause for us in his acceptance speech XD
This is what it looked like on TV↓ (photographed from screen hence the poor quality)
Here you can see us standing on the galleries on both sides of the main stage.
My 1 second of fame. YAY XD
RANDOM
Anni stayed at my place for the weekend. I felt like commenting on that as well, so I spent like 1000hours in PS and here's the result:
Dedicated to Anni XD
Faces edited for your safety.
And for mine. Anni would kill me.
Note: Most of the pictures in this entry were taken by Vinny-Vieh and Anni. Thanks for providing me with pictures!!
