We are Job Creators! You ready?
We’re looking for rock solid Video Photographer with nothing but the best customer service skills. You need to be a reliable source for shoots at large corporate campus’ in Silicon Valley, 2 to 6 times a month. It’s a 2-5 hr one person shoot at $300 a pop. These are usually speaker/podium events of fascinating people (no, not kidding). If you provide your own Sony EX3 or equivalent, we’ll up it $125. You will be ready to hand over a .mov of the event when it’s over.
Email Danny at M1sf.com with links to your work.
Quiet everybody! We have an announcement to make!
MediaOne Services, San Francisco’s leading digital media production company, announced today the signing of a new four- year contract with the San Francisco Giants. MediaOne will continue to manage and operate all broadcasts services for the San Francisco Giants as well as AT&T Park.
MediaOne Services offers a broad range of services including broadcast engineering, transmission, webcast, video production, web and mobile integration as well as full-service studio and post-production rentals.
“It was only natural for us to renew our partnership with MediaOne as they have a successful track record in providing live HDTV transmission and production services for our local and national broadcast rights holders and continue to be a trusted partner here at AT&T Park,” said Mario Alioto, senior vice president of the San Francisco Giants. “We look forward to continuing this effective broadcast collaboration, serving both the Giants and AT&T Park.”
“We’ve deeply enjoyed working with the San Francisco Giants and AT&T Park for the past 11 years, and during this time, we’ve had the great pleasure of capturing several monumental, live sporting events,” said Ben Schick, chief executive officer of MediaOne. “In particular, MediaOne was fortunate to have managed the transmission and broadcast services for the 2010 World Series, 2011 Cal Football and 2007 All-Star Game.
The San Francisco Giants are one of the oldest franchises in Major League Baseball They have won the most games of any North American professional sports team and in 2010 won their first World Series Championship since moving to San Francisco from New York in 1958
MediaOne Services is a global video production company headquartered in San Francisco, providing strategies, studios and services to enterprises, broadcasters, webcasters, and NGOs. Customers include NBC, Electronic Arts, HP, Climate Reality, Ustream, ESPN, McKesson, BBC, Girl Scouts and more.
This is a screen grab of a recent web stream. Single camera. The projection screen that is useless to the audience because it’s too bright. The single mic being handed around with people bending in various yoga positions to speak into it. The camera zooming all over the room, sometimes at the floor, the ceiling. Anyone can run a camera right? Is this the impression you want to give your audience? Does this make you look professional?
Below is from Philip Nelson of NewTek pulled from Stream Media Magazine.
The novelty of live streaming has worn off; it’s time to step it up. As with all media, when it’s new you can get away with simple, unsophisticated content: a webcam pointed at puppies, or a joke-telling college student in his dorm. The CDNs must make the move to premium programming and event coverage, as they compete with traditional media for viewers.
For major networks and event producers, a streaming strategy will no longer be an option, it will be a requirement. A successful media strategy will have to include live streaming, along with a primetime network broadcast. This trend started with the new hit program “X Factor,” where the online streaming component was developed in concert with the network broadcast plans to complement and extend the programming beyond television.
In addition, those who hold rights to content, like sports leagues, colleges and universities, will start taking back control of those rights as they find ways to monetize their content directly, rather than through a third party. In 2012, we will see an increase in the quality and diversity of content offered through streaming media, well beyond anything available via traditional broadcast.
For those of us working in the industry, the demand for network-quality streaming media will continue to grow, creating extraordinary opportunities for live production professionals. For the world of content consumers, streaming will continue to be about convenience of consumption, rather than loyalty to a viewing platform. Whether you produce and deliver content, or just enjoy it-2012 is your year.
We agree.
Most of the bandwidth used during prime time television viewing hours is Netflix. Half of that is going through an Xbox. Like the frog in the hot water story, TV watching is changing slowing, but surely.
TiVO started it. No longer confined to when an LA network exec decided to run a show, we could shift it to our convenience. That was the game changing moment. The time the audience training began. DVR’s are common place now. It’s how TV is watched more and more. Now for step two.
App TV, the end of linear television all together. Imagine a 42 inch iPad mounted on your wall (called Apple TV?). Launch the YouTube app and watch any one of 100 channels, or your own channel. Have you seen the new YouTube layout? All your subscriptions on a single page. You “channel guide” to what you like. As obscure as you like, it’s yours.
HBO2Go, ESPN, all on apps, on your TV. Or, the “TV app”…a third party app from a company that has licensed content. The technology is there. That ethernet cable running to your house has it all. If you are using a game console to watch Netflix, you are there. Xbox is just the app-holder-of-the-moment and Microsoft is working hard to make it the app holder for as long as it can.
When I want to watch The Daily Show, I’ll launch my Comedy Central app (or my “fake news” app, because The Onion may be there too) and watch when I’m ready. The show is shot, edited and uploaded. No waiting until 10pm (no pressure Daily Show editors). Say to my TV “Daily Show…today…play”. Or if I want to see yesterdays interview, ”Daily Show…yesterday…segment 3”. Or maybe “Daily Show…today…Apple commercials.”
Then the joke with Scotty picking up the mouse and saying “computer” won’t be as funny.
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Danny | MediaOne Director of Operations
image from www.telegraph.co.uk
Creative Director Ed Ng from Be4Media was in with his RED Mysterium-X doing some test shots. At 60 frames/second, the models hair flowed like budda.
Check out this video. Thoughts? Meet me here in 5 years and we’ll compare.
I just finished reading this blog post in Journalism.org. 18 months following the release of the iPad, 11% of adults own a tablet. And half of them use it for news. The trend is pretty obvious.
Tablets and other mobile devices are yet another way to consume video. We’ve had web video, YouTube and social video for awhile. The distribution channels has been there. Now, we’re getting the screens to watch them on.
Here’s our story so far: we had TV. Sit on your couch and watch. Still a rather wonderful thing to do today and that won’t change (so chill). Then came web video. More people became content creators. Sure, cat videos, but there’s a ton of really great stuff on the web. Everything from TWiT for geeks to Kevin Pollacks Chat Show for actor interviews. Broadcast TV has slipped in. Missed The Daily Show? It’s on the web. Still, you needed to be sitting at your computer…on your couch if you prefer. With your cat.
Now comes mobile. It started with the iPhone but, really? You’re going to watch video on that? Ah. Tablets. Now we’re talking. A watchable screen. For reading, sure. But for video (with words if you prefer)
On the bus, on the plane, waiting for your ride…any time, any place (given the good graces of the cell phone provider gods). Any time.
Ok, Mr. Marketing Brander, Ms Content Maker…Cat Video Shooter. Think about that. Your audience is now, truly everywhere. Well, everywhere there are the good graces of the cell provider gods. We still need to work on that.
MediaOne spent three days at Fort Mason in San Francisco at the Slow Money National Gathering. We had two camera teams wondering about shooting everything that was happening. Slow Money will turn all this (300+ gigs of video) into clips to be distributed in the months ahead to increase awareness and outreach. Using video, Slow Money can use the same event to keep the buzz going. In fact, we’re helping them assemble a site where specific parts of the event can be showcased in some cool ways. Stay tuned.
While we were there, we ran into Waylon Lewis and Lindsey Block of Elephant Journal. They were all over the vent in both video and pictures. Go check out that and their other pages….like this one. Let us know what you think.
Seth Kenvin was by the office to give me a look at Market 7, a suite of collaborative modules to manage video projects. It allows you to keep track of schedules, and the times allotted to members of your team as well as create scripts ready for export to prompters. This is web based so all the members of your team, or at least those you allow, can keep track of whats going on and have input.
It also has a video player. You upload your media and play it while making notes. Well, “notes”…you can simply type a comment, reply to a comment or you can draw shapes on the frame. Or draw freehand. “Look, a cable in the shot!…” (insert giant red circle to express your frustration). This gets spit out as an .xml file that you import into Final Cut..or Avid…if you must…where all this stuff shows up as markers.
There are also modules for file management, task management, and budget management.
Interesting stuff.
—Danny, Director of Operations.
