YSTV Does Hunted - Live
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| Genre: | Entertainment |
| Broadcast: | Saturday 3rd December 2022 |
| Executive Producer(s): | Dom Hall |
| Producer(s): | Meg Maguire, Alexianne Charlery-Warner, Sarah Maguire, Cameron Fox |
Hunted Live was the fourth installment in the YSTV Does Hunted series and the first to be restricted to the university campus. This allowed us to broadcast the entire event live.
Background
Doing a Hunted episode live had been mentioned several times, mostly as a joke, and the general consensus was they it would not really be possible. YSTV Does Hunted - Live's final form began to emerge in June 2022 after a discussion between Will Stirk and Dom Hall who thought it might actually be technically possible. The date was almost immediately set and ideas slowly progressed over the months. Proper planing started towards the end of October 2022, with a larger production and technical team brought on-board to try and make this a reality.
Setup
Due to how distributed the production was across campus, there were a lot of technical challenges. The studio was based in Central Hall and Hunter HQ in the YSTV Studio, both had their own gallery setup. Static cameras were placed at strategic points around campus, including on Central Hall balcony for an overview of campus. A number of roaming cameras (people's phones) went around campus with the teams to capture the action. All the static and roaming camera feeds and the outputs from the studio and HQ were sent to the YSTV Control Room which was overseeing and mixing the final output.
We faced several technical challenges on the day, including difficulties getting power and internet to the static cameras resulting in the scrapping of two static locations last-minute. We also had issues with the studio -> control room feed which was using SRT, this was likely because we were saturating the YSTV -> ITS network and the SRT packets were not prioritised over other traffic. Additionally we had problems with the communications setup which was planned to be combined into the remote video tool used. This resulted in the static and roaming cameras having very little communication with the gallery.