We hosted an event today for a group of Students from the City of Bath College. The event was planned over the last 2 months and the team divided into 2 groups to run activities in the Gatehouse and Newton g08... or as we dubbed 'the fun room' !
I was put in charge of the fun room activities and was Technical lead & main presenter for the room. The idea was to run an interactive demo of a green screen 'News style' broadcast, get the students involved and get some hands on with the kit.
We rehearsed the setup but one the eve of the event we decided to use vision mixing software on a laptop instead of a hardware mixer, because we felt this gave a more interesting result on the screen. In hindsight this caused us issues because instead of being comfortable with the set up we were still addressing issues when the delegates arrived in the room 15 minutes ahead of schedule. So we had to think on our feet and run with what we had, doing our best to get the audience involved as much as possible.
It was also difficult getting volunteers - on reflection I would have picked people and directed them to go on camera or lights rather than ask for people to come forward.
All in all it went well and we managed to run 2 successful demos with the delegates involved - there's much more I would do better if we did this again - hopefully not to soon though !
Wednesday 29 April 2009
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