fanworks | FanWorks Panel Brainstorming (Reply)

Hi, all! It’s time to start thinking about what we would like to discuss, learn about, and enthuse over in this year’s FanWorks panels! Panel brainstorming is a great way to get inspiration for panel topics and bounce ideas off one another. (It’s also a good time to find co-mods for panels you’re interested in leading, or to get mods to take on panel ideas you have but don’t want to lead yourself!)

Two commons types of panels are group discussions and presentations:

A discussion panel is driven by audience participation. The moderators act mostly as discussion leaders, working to keep the discussion focused and ensure that a variety of voices are heard.
An instruction or presentation panel is largely or entirely focused on moderator presentation, with moderators leading the panel audience through specific techniques, aesthetics, platforms, software, and so on. These panels may include some audience discussion, if time allows.

If you have an idea for a panel in a different format, that’s fine! Ideas for panels that could fit into multiple tracks (i.e., a panel about fic trailers, including content relevant to both the Writing and Video tracks) are also fine.

The standard panel length is 45 minutes; panels start on the hour with fifteen minute (or longer) breaks in-between. If you have ideas for panels that might work better as two hour panels, feel free to toss them in! Sometimes scheduling allows for longer panel sessions, and these can be great for digging into discussions or material at greater length. (Due to time constraints, these types of panels are likely to be limited.)

Panel topics can range from introductory to advanced. If you want to brainstorm ideas for panels to introduce people to your favorite kind of fanwork, you can! If you’re interested in brainstorming ideas for panels on specific techniques or more in depth topics, you can do that too.

Panel nominations open on March 17th and run until March 31st. Until then, brainstorm away in the posts below!

Arts & Crafting
Audio
Community
Video
Writing