Daily Schedules & Planning a Convention

Video Transcript

"In this clip we'll talk about how many daily hours a convention should be. In general, if you're running a convention from Friday to Sunday, which most conventions do run now, your big day is going to be Saturday. So what you're looking to do is have probably about a half a day Saturday, starting somewhere in the afternoon maybe one, or two or three o'clock in the afternoon and run until maybe even midnight or one o'clock in the morning. Saturday being your big day is going to be when you start early. So you'll probably want to start your registration at ten o'clock. You'll probably want to start your events right around ten o'clock. That should probably run twelve to fourteen hours. So schedule wisely. And we'll talk about that in a little bit. And then Sunday you'll want to start early as well. Open your registration early, maybe ten o'clock. You might want to run until three or four or five o'clock in the evening. But don't run too late because you do want people to get an opportunity to take advantage of it and certainly you want to close down before the crowd starts thinning out because of work on Monday morning, school on Monday morning. So generally three o'clock perhaps on Friday to about five o'clock on Sunday."