OB:York Come Dancing 09-10

York Come Dancing 09-10

Held in the Autumn term of the 2009/2010 academic year, York Come Dancing is Dance Sports rip-off of BBCs Strictly Come Dancing.

Throughout the term YSTV produced weekly 'round up' shows of the rehearsals that week. Finally on Sunday Week 8, YSTV broadcast the Finals live from Central Hall.

The Rig

With any luck, what you are about to read will enable you to replicate this setup with very little difficulty.

Equipment List

Technical Things first:

• DaVE
• DaVE P169
• 3x HD Cameras
• 1x Canon DV camera
• 4x Tripods
• Howard (remote control camera)
• ~ 10 monitors
• VT Playout PC (or Edit 2 for HD playout?)
• ystvencode (for stream and record)
• Comms
• Touchscreen Monitor
• P169 Control Laptop
• P169 Control Serial Cable
• VT laptop (to feed plasma)
• A box (to muffle VT laptop's Little Whizzy Fan)
• 3x 75M BNCs (Cameras B1, B2, B4 on plan below)
• 20-30M Umbilical for Howard
• 5~10M BNC for B/S cam.
• Cat5e senders and 5~10M Cat5e cable for B/S Preview Telly
• 5~10M XLR for BS Camera Comms
• 30M XLR Comms to Cam B1
• 5~10M XLR for BS Presenter Comms
• 8-core umbilical for sound desk <--> projection booth link
• Lots of short(er) XLRs for Comms in Control Room
• Plenty of Short BNCs for patching in Control Room
• Odd Audio/Video cables for those annoying bits. Gender benders especially.
• Two lighting bars, lights, dimmer packs, and so on. Basically the whole OB lighting kit.

• Preview Tellys for backstage set and rehearsal room. May be available from AV.

Set Type things:

• 3x Set boards (8' boards will fit comfortably)
• Things to sit on? Nah, I want a standing-up set.
• Black curtains, purpley stuff
• YUSU's plasma TV
• Dancesport standalone banner
• YSTV banner to hang in the hall

Rig Plan

• The main Control room will be located in the Projection Room on the Balcony, with Sound Op and Lighting Op both outside the booth using AV Equipment.
• Cameras will be positioned above the left and right stairwell entrances, stage left above block 1, and one backstage for interview set.
• Howard, the remote control camera, will be flying from the centre of the gantry
• In addition, we will be providing two Follow Spot operators.

Vision

In terms of patching we will have all 5 Cameras Sources, plus VT PC going into DaVE P169, which will in turn feed DaVE. P169 Control Laptop in Conjunction will provide a Touchscreen interface to the P169. There will be preview monitors for all sources, as well as the Main Output.

The main output will be DA'd and will have two feeds to ystvencode for capture and stream. An additional feed will go to VTA for SVHS capture. Finally there will be a copy of the Video sent backstage and to the rehearsal room as a preview.

Audio

Audio equipment will be mostly provided by AV.

There will be a series of lapel mics for the judges (4), plus at one wireless mic for the "Brucie" Presenter (Luke).

Additionally, the backstage "Tess" presenter (Fionna) will have a wireless Mic, plus a mic or two for interviewees. This will require AV's "Gig rig" backstage as the installed wireless mics don't reach the backstage area (the screen has a metal mesh behind it). If the gig rig isn't available or it all falls to pieces, we can fall back to wired mics for the backstage set.

Audio will also come from VT PC for VT playback, plus some music source (cd player?) for the dancers.

All audio will be mixed using AV's Sound desk.

The primary audio mix will be for the Central Hall PA, with a subgroup being mixed and routed to our streaming and capture setups.

Computing Considerations

• Network Socket in Project Booth needs to be tested ahead of time to ensure that it works and is on the correct network. I am given a wholehearted promise that the network sockets on the balcony all work, and so long as our machines are registered there won't be a problem.
• ystvencode needs to be tested ahead of time to ensure all software is working correctly, and it can stream/record.
• ystvencode will need some storage space clearing out too.