Roses 2005

After the year off in 2004, the team that tackled Roses 2005 was almost completely different from that which had done Roses 2003, with only Dave Baker, Jonathan Bufton and Rob Humphry still around. This lead to quite a "clean slate" approach to the task. As none of the team were particularly into sport, what was done was driven mainly by the AU's requests rather than and particular televisual or technical goals. The coverage split into three separate strands - a mini-live rig for the Darts on the Friday night (at Megabowl, Clifton Moor), a play-out stall at the Roses Ball on the Saturday night (at Next Generation gym, behind Alcuin), and DVDs sold at the ball and produced afterwards.

The Darts

For reasons that never really became clear, the AU held the darts matches at the Megabowl bowling alley on the Clifton Moor retail park, and wanted a live video / projector rig for it. They hired in the projector and screen (from AV) and YSTV provided the cameras. A minium kit rig was devised using two MS5 cameras (one for the darts board close-up, one wider shot), a laptop to provide an YSTV logo video feed and the Panasonic Max as a vision mixer, which also provided down stream keying of the YSTV logo over the output video. An SVHS deck also went to provide a recording of the event (and yes, we did get asked for the footage ...). Because it was an off-campus hire the projector was (predictably) the oldest one AV had, and the venue was less than inspiring, being basically a bit of floor with a blank wall (in front of which the screen was stood). Ents provided a single monitor speaker with a mic as PA, and a couple of PAR cans stood on the floor were shone upwards on the darts board.

The Playout Rig

This was done using the video projector / sound system installed at Next Generation, fed from Dave Baker's laptop. This played a 30 minute loop of highlights from the event with no sound, plus a selection of music from Dave's MP3 collection to keep us entertained. The play-out was the easy bit - what took the hard work was creating the video loop, and then taking down DVD orders and money off people all night. The loop was edited on the Saturday afternoon by Rowan de Pomerai with some help from Dave Baker, and then the play out stall manned by Richard Ash and Dave Baker.

The DVD

This was produced in the weeks after the event, and basically consisted of all the footage that had been shot, given a quick tidy up of starts / ends / camera pointing at the floor, and with some library music added over the topUnverified or incomplete information. This produced a pile of DV AVI files, which Rowan then took home and made into a pair of video DVDs using iDVD on his Mac, thus avoiding any hassle over DVD creation. Copies were run off on the station's DVD burner, boxed and sent out to those who had bought them via their respective AUs. This actually raised quite a lot of money, which helped pay for Edit PC 2 in the summer term.