Russell Stuart wrote:
With a speaker that is used to repeating questions this works well, but many speakers have not yet learnt this, maybe prompting would help, but in small theatres where all people can hear the floor question it is counter intuitive to repeat the question for the recording.At other LCA's the speaker was required to repeat all questions. As I was watching the delays caused by the wireless mics being moved around the audience I ended up thinking that getting the speaker to repeat the question was a better (and cheaper) solution.
Mark an area on the floor in gaffa tape big enough to move about a bit and get to laptop, projector etc and say if you want to look good in the video then stay within this area. It is what happens in professional recording. There is room for some negotiation. Setup of theatre may need to be manipulated to encourage speaker to stay within a good area for recording, or to move the camera to get the best position. It would help to have recorded in that theatre before with a range of speakers to be familiar with positioning, or to have just done more recording, so encouraging LUGs to video will improve the experience pool.The other problem seems to be getting both the speaker and the slides in the picture. In some theatres the speaker stood on one side of the room and the projector screen was on the other making the cameraman's job dammed near impossible.
There doesn't seem to be an easy solution to this. I
am sure it wouldn't cause a professional camera operator any problems - but we don't have them. We
could have two cameras - one following the speaker and
one focused on the screen only and splice the two together at edit time - but that would double the expense. Or you could try and get all speakers to
upload their slides to the conference web site - but
that should happen anyway and I notice no LCA has
achieved it yet, so it must be hard to orchestrate.
BTW Silvia, others have said it but I must throw in
my "me too". The video coverage was for me the crowning achievement of LCA2007. It set a new
standard, one which I suspect future LCA's will
have trouble living up to.