Love York Awards (Coverage): Difference between revisions

Overall the VTs were a success - they went down excellently with the audience (both eliciting applause) and the work with YUSU needed for them improved YSTV's reputation with them and helped justify the expenditure of the new camera - and our appliciations for more grant money!

The director and vision mixer roles were going to be joint, with the wireless camera operator swapping half-way through. [[Raquel Bartra]] as producer, felt it was better we switched between director and vision mixer with someone, solely focussed on wireless camera. Thus, the first half had [[Katherine Bell]] directing and [[Sam Hance]] vision mixing with [[Dan Maher]] on wireless camera.  

There was also a 'mild' panic early on when the graphic overlay of the winner's name was not previewing after a certain number. This was resolved, as it was just the machine, not the actual files. However, the first graphic overlay came out as transparent to which [[Sam Willcocks]] jumped to change {{unsure|a transparency setting}} so the rest were fine. These were cued by [[Emily Friend]] using Caspar. The sound mix for the livestream was mixed by [[Fanny Kerekes]].   

[[Edwin Barnes]] had the idea of doing live highlights for playout as soon as the event ended - a nice way to add to our production values and get our credits/logo out at the end of the show. This ''should'' have been simple - just a PC with Premiere and the Intensity Shuttle, however it was far from such.  

Sensing defeat (and fire risk) - but still determined - Edwin tried a last ditch attempt to get the now reinstalled Premiere to work - using the Roses 2017 user account on his PC. Strangely, this fixed the issue, and after connecting the SSD internally, Edwin was able to put together a passable highlights reel with credits - better than nothing!  

Although perhaps a mild cliche at this point, tech went "surprisingly well". It was a fairly standard [[Kenobi]] OB, with 3 wired cameras (including the shiny new Canon C100) for two sides of the stage and a wide shot, and a wireless AC90 for following winners and misc other shots. The newly built OB Graphics PC worked flawlessly after playing up slightly at [[Ask Look North (BBC Look North Collaboration)|Ask Look North]], and even tally, which for a while has been a "would be nice" extra when it came to OBs was in and working.

Comms was achieved using Mumble again, as is becoming more common... [[Sam Willcocks]] might even finish writing the software for it one day. The two YSTV Laptops were used at the camera ends, connected to umbilical Ethernet, and a hodgepodge of phones and laptops in the gallery.

Following [[Sam Hance]]'s impromptu creation of the [[Behind The Streams]] show during and after [[Ask Look North (BBC Look North Collaboration)|Ask Look North]], he was asked to cover this event upon arrival. With a DSLR and a Rode Videomic Pro on hand, he got to filming the different jobs going on. Particularly in Central Hall, the low lighting hindered this footage but let's say the grain adds 'authenticity'.  

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