We'll see...
This March 2013 the Walker Art Center is encouraging groups/schools/companies from around the country to form viewing
parties for our annual Insights Design Lecture Series webcasts. The live events are typically webcast and posted online, however this is the first year we're encouraging people to experience it together. There is even a viewing party informational guide for any group interested in participating. Since this lecture series is one of our most popular, it was a natural candidate for the experiment.
I've written more extensively about our event documentation/webcasting process at the Walker if you're interested in hearing more.
Hey, very cool. Love the idea of a watch party for online content. Seems like it's going to take some creative thinking like that to build live audiences online.
ReplyDeleteHow many people work on a shoot/edit of one of these lecture webcasts? 1 Camera Operator, 1 Director and 1 Editor? Curious about your crew and the human power from start to finish.
Hey Ben,
DeleteIt's just me. I have the camera in one hand and a video mixer in the other. Throughout the lecture I mix back and forth between the speaker and the Powerpoint presentation, sometimes using picture-in-picture to display both. Since the speaker doesn't usually move around much, it is manageable. Everything is then recorded to an external recorder. There is very little editing involved afterwards. I add a title slide, process the audio (mix, normalize, compress) and encode a new file for upload. I never would have time to edit the material afterwards, so mixing it live is very efficient.
For performing arts shows, we need more resources of course to mix live, but the efficiency stays the same: an edited piece the moment the show ends!
That's great. I'm working towards the 'live to tape' model, but the perfectionist in me always wants to edit. As we've grown in scale, I'm learning to let go and build this into our workflow.
DeleteVery impressive.
Andy, so glad you shared. Might have to organize a viewing party here at the Getty!
ReplyDeleteAnd YES, very interested in talking about web-casting. I'll read your post now. We are trying to figure out if we webcast something, is there a way to be more inclusive to an international online audience? I guess, meaning- how to we make the event web-based with a live component, instead of just web-cast of a "real" event?
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