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I really don't get the winchestercon con committee's decision to have a documentarian filming at the con, and their further attempt to reassure concerned fans here. A lot of fans are uncomfortable with the idea of being filmed, however inadvertently and with all the precautions I'm sure the con committee will take. They're asking for release forms and said that there won't be any mass filming, just one-on-one interviews if fans so choose (which is different from what was proposed in the first post, so I'm still not entirely clear how it will work).
But even despite that, I agree with one of the concerns voiced in the second post that just having someone there filming, without real assurance that you're not going to end up being filmed accidentally, changes the feel of the con. There are a lot of privacy issues at work in fandom, and people have different limits and boundaries. Cons should be spaces where fans can feel comfortable, and I'm uncomfortable that the con committee is making decisions like this without getting the input of the con-goers first. And I really don't think the filmmaker's production schedule should be the deciding factor on whether this happens, over the concerns of people who have paid to go to the con.
But even despite that, I agree with one of the concerns voiced in the second post that just having someone there filming, without real assurance that you're not going to end up being filmed accidentally, changes the feel of the con. There are a lot of privacy issues at work in fandom, and people have different limits and boundaries. Cons should be spaces where fans can feel comfortable, and I'm uncomfortable that the con committee is making decisions like this without getting the input of the con-goers first. And I really don't think the filmmaker's production schedule should be the deciding factor on whether this happens, over the concerns of people who have paid to go to the con.