Queued Up
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This is where the concert actually starts.
Not on stage, not when the lights go down, but outside, in the queue. where strangers become friends, where the excitement slowly builds, and where some of the best moments happen before the show even begins.
“Queued Up” is my way of showing that side of the story.
Discover who I talked to and where the episode took me, straight from the queue.
My reason why
Queuing is such a huge part of the experience, yet people love to judge it without really understanding it. Spending hours, or an entire day, waiting in line sounds crazy to some. And sure, maybe it is a little, but there’s also so much more going on. There’s excitement, connection, community, and honestly a kind of joy you don’t really get unless you’ve been part of it.
What I noticed is that most content around concerts focuses on the artist, which makes sense of course, but it often overlooks the fans. And to me, the fans are the heart of it all. Without them, none of this exists. Maybe that’s a bit of a hot take, but it’s one I stand by. Being part of a fandom or a concert community can genuinely be life-changing, and that’s the side of the story I want to show.
So with “Queued Up,” I talk to people in the queue through short interviews and real moments, and each episode focuses on a different aspect of fan culture. I want to explore all kinds of fandoms: big ones, small ones, different genres, and different dynamics, from fans who feel close to the artist to those just discovering them. What makes each fandom unique? Why do people connect the way they do? And what does it actually feel like to be there, waiting together for something you love?
“Queued Up” started as a small project, just an idea I wanted to try out and see where it would go.
It’s powered and supported by Zoomedia, the media channel of my school, and I’ve had a lot of help along the way from my lecturers (shoutout to them for believing in this slightly chaotic concept).
If you want to check them out (and us), you can find our socials here:
Zoomedia:
Queued Up:
Planet Zoo
And somehow, still not entirely sure how that happened, I got the opportunity to talk about this project at a really important event my school organizes, with a lot of big names in the entertainment and media industry. Like… me? Talking there? For actual professionals? No big deal at all… (I am, in fact, slightly freaking out).
But that moment also made me realize something: if I’m going to stand there and talk about fans and community, it shouldn’t just be me talking. This whole project exists because of other people, so they deserve to be part of it too.
So I reached out to people I’ve met through concerts and asked if they wanted to be part of something bigger. People from different fandoms and different places, all with their own stories. They’ve been sending me voice memos about what concerts and fandom mean to them, along with clips of their favorite concert memories. At the same time, I’m still out there in queues, interviewing people and capturing new moments, while also digging through the footage I’ve already collected.
All of that is coming together into one big video for the event in May, something that doesn’t just explain the idea of “Queued Up,” but actually shows it. Not just my perspective, but a whole range of voices, stories, and experiences. Because at the end of the day, it’s not just about queuing, it’s about people. About connection. About being part of something bigger. A community that, no matter how different it looks on the outside, is built on the same kind of love.