• Pay for the photo-op. This may cost upwards of sixty dollars for the big names, but you’re at least guaranteed to get it. A bonus is that the photo is going to be professional, so you don’t risk something weird happening in the background.
• The selfie strategy. This is the riskiest and most uncertain method of snapping a moment with a celeb. You have to take into account the strictness of the convention volunteers (who are right there) and the mood of your target celebrity. If, in those thirty seconds of talking to him or her, you feel you might have made a connection, go for it.
• The snipe. This one won’t have you interacting with the star in any way. In a snipe, you ask your friend to take a picture of you while a famous person conveniently happens to be in the background (just kidding–you totally planned it).

  

and props and still fit in, because everybody loves a good cosplay. (Cosplay is when a person does their best to portray a character or element from a story through his or her costume.) You can wear normal, everyday clothes and still fit in. It really doesn’t matter. But the best thing you can do is ask a cosplayer with a particularly good costume for his or her picture.
“It felt amazing,” said Hannah St George ‘14, after being asked for her picture by fellow convention goers. “I did something well and it felt good that my costume was noteworthy and they acknowledged my effort and appreciated it.”
St George attended the 2014 Rhode Island Comic-Con as Sherlock Holmes from the modern BBC revival series.