When you start to produce live programming you’ll find yourself watching TV in a new and crazy way! You start to look for every cut, every transition, and every camera position to find the motivation that lies behind each of them. As a Director, it’s your role to pull everything together to produce a coheasive mix. The question that I’ve found myself at many times is what makes for great live production?
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Over the last few weeks I’ve been experimenting with the process of perfecting online streaming live from meetings and conferences. I’ve been dreaming up different setups, and have come up against a few road blocks and challenges but not the type that I thought that I would have faced.
This is a follow up from my last post, “What’s in a name…” – Quick re-cap, EVERYTHING! I’ve been using twitter.com using the name @big_b_rad for a while now, but I’ve grown tired of trying to explain how to spell it, where to put the underscore’s etc. so I set out to chage my name, and did so in the exact way that no one should ever attempt to do such. I pray that my pain in learning will equip you in what NOT to ever attempt!
After spending last night on The Free Monday Phone-in with Rich Currie talking about branding, and also growing so very tired of trying to explain how to find me on twitter, “it’s big b rad with underscores between… never mind. I decided to re-brand my twitter presence to be my name @bradparler. This has proven to be more of a head ache than I thought and I’ve hit a following wall – most likely a safety guard from allowing people to follow 1,000 people in a 24 hour window, but when you have 3,700 followers that you’re trying to migrate like a huge exodus it’s not a fun wall to hit.
With all of the buzz and the hype around the pocket video camera revolution I still find my self wanting one of these ‘fake’ cameras. And before you ram me down with belittling comments about my lack of love for this cute little devices I’ll tell you why I call them fake.
The has been a lot of banter back-and-forth over the last few weeks that I think all streamed from something that Guy Kalasaki’s posted in one the blogs that he posts – that you can’ wait around for perfection; but you can’t send crap either. I’m confounded by the idea that Good is the enmy of Great, to then hear that you can’t wait for perfection. I understand that the emphasis is on excusion – in other words don’t keep working on it to avoid shipping. (At least that’s what I get out of it.)
