You have an idea for a web show, YouTube video, but the cost of the needed gear is keeping you from stardom.We have a beautiful studio, Sony EX-3 cameras, a Yamaha audio mixer, a handful of KiPro recorders. Let’s hook them up. Lights, microphones, small refrigerators…ya know…for snacks.
Giving people voice is a goal at MediaOne. To make this happen, we want to work with you and your idea, to experiment. We can use the tricks of modern gear to keep the costs tons cheaper then you might think.
Al Gore’s Climate Reality team called on MediaOne Services again to head up a remote shoot in Dhaka, Bangladesh. This was a 4-day production that traveled from Dhaka to Khulna and then on to Shyamnager where Producer/Photograher Wahidur Khandkar shot his beautiful video.
Handling the difference in time zones, arranging interviews, crew traveling throughout Bangladesh, sometimes by ferry to remote locations, as well as coordinating the rest of the teams in New York, Washington DC, and Los Angeles…all challenges faced in an international production. Since MediaOne is a regular partner with Climate Reality, we’ve learned most…never all…of the ins and outs of global production. Having a wonderfully talented video photographer on the ground is a big plus.
Wahidur used a Canon 7D to shoot stunning interviews and b-roll and then sent his files via ftp to New York and San Francisco.
Rich Costello. Director of Production.
Links:
Wahidur Khandkar’s website
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.
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
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.
