OB:Woodstock 2010

Woodstock 2010 will be in Vanbrugh as usual. Currently the suggestion is to to focus all our efforts on the main stage, with maybe a wide shot or something on the indoor stage. Hey people, please use the discussion page for discussing things, asking questions, presenting ideas, and those odd WTF moments. Only permenent stuff here

Main Stage

• We have up to ~3.5A at the main stage

• 2 HD's
  • as roaming
• 1 HD as dollycam
  • only if space between crowd barrier & tent is adequate.
  • haggle if necessary, but woodstock will be packed, and they shall be of higher importance to us - our job is to make the pictures a success, given available space.
• 1 Howard. aspect ratio problems still in progress
  • suspended from rig
  • bring cable ties, lots of cable ties
• Miranda (sky)
  • as wide
  • on balcony per usual In V139, pointing out of the window.
  • Cable run could be out of the V120 window, over the balcony, in V139 window - avoids going out of the door, needing haz tape etc.)
• canon on balcony?
  • eg for presenters, and jugglesoc etc near the lake in the Langwith direction if they're there again, and rear shot of audience - tree in full bloom obscures the stage
  • may need to bring OB lighting rig for presenters.
• power from event
  • bring the 16a > 13a's distro board
• projector
  • find out where the projector(s) is, and possibly where the screen is from RAG
  • just feed it composite
• Preview TVs
  • see discussion page

Indoor Stage

• A wide shot
  • Probably with the small sony or panasonic handheld camera
  • Dependent on the 4:3/16:9 Howard decission, Hoaward may serve as the wide shot.
• MS5's bnc'ed to passive cat5 run to control room.
  • see discussion page
• small panasonic or sony handheld camera viewing drummer?
  • see discussion page
• Take event sound via URY (mono, balanced, hopefully remixed)
• Feed sent to main for possible use if wanted to fill space.
  • see discussion page
• Tom Trolley mixed
  • see discussion page for location talks

Roomspace

• Woodstock have 'pretty much booked out all of Vanburgh's upstairs' for us & URY (from friday onwards)
  • V120 (overlooking the walkway with roof)
  • V139 for main stage wide shot
  • V122 useful for roof access for URY audio, & editing, & video leads
  • V113 Vanbrugh broadcast monitors cables
  • V119 URY (verification needed)
  • SCR URY

URY

• Mono balanced from indoor stage
• Stereo balanced (pre-presenters) from main stage
• Aren't allowed to use their full broadcast due to licencing, music copyright etc.
• give video feed to the SCR
• may also need a spare TV

Commercial stuff

• Needs to happen
• let people know its happening
• DVD's?

VT's

• Back archive of stuff to play if there's a pause - e.g. "now lets watch 2007"
• On a per song basis, with some full sets - no-one can tell for definate how long a changeover will be!
• knock on effect of aspect ratio kerfuffle
  • VT's to be put into a 16:9 project, with black bars down sides
    • This means they get squished (in editing), and unsquished (in broadcast), rather than just unsquished (stretched) in broadcast
    • Thus maintaining a respectable aspect ratio, and displaying all of the image...

Streamage

• Both stages
  • Use new strm0
  • Use an Edit PC

Presenting and stuff

• head of organisation - Viv.C
  • some notes about bands
• Gaps:
  • Main stage - 5-20 mins
  • Indoor stage - sporadic! !! 16:9 and 4:3 difficulties unless one of th spare pcs can do contemporaneous 4:3 -> 16:9 conversion !!
• Base at balcony
• link between sets & Vt's of sets
• possibly band interviews if can catch any
  • recorded to tape, probably on a canon dv, then hastily edited as a vt.

Comms

• give to presenters not cam Ops - cam ops can be clever
  • SERIOUSLY !? - no comms for cameras at either stage seems a bad idea. --Malcolm.chambers 13:13, 30 May 2010 (UTC)
• Clever signalling solution needed. - IE probably waving out of the V120 window in the case of presenters/camera ops on the balcony

Gazebo

• Stick on balcony - for rains  ??? --Malcolm.chambers 13:14, 30 May 2010 (UTC)
• Backup = go inside.

Top n' tailing

• Use spare Edit OC

Happy crew equipment

• Denton Boom - Balmer
  • Cardioid mic is not much use on a pole with the ambient sound therefore would have to use rifle mic on the boom pole.
  • Rifle mic would be good reserved for use on balcony for presenters - ie more directional therefore less ambient sound
  • Solution 1: don't use the boom pole, give interviewers the cardioid ones (Malcolm's preferred solution)
  • Solution 2: use cardioid mics on balcony and make sure presenters hold them close to their mouth
• O.B. Party box - communal food - where from exactly?

YUSU Plasma's

• Cullen to talk to yusu IT GUYS. be very very persuassive.
• Chislett talk projectors YSL.

The amazing incredibly long list of stuff to take (and in roughly the correct order)

On the day, there'll be a list on the whiteboards, cross stuff out, only after it has definitely reached it's destination

Cams Main:

• HD 1 (front of stage, possibly on tracks)
• HD 2 (front of stage)
• HD 3 (side of stage)
• Howard
• Miranda (Wide shot, pointing out of the V139 window)

Indoor:

• Sony/Panasonic handheld (on tripod obviously) for wideshot if Howard's on main stage
• Two MS4s or MS5s at the front of the stage
• Possibly Panasonic/Sony handheld (on tripod obviously) pointing at drummer

Balcolny:

• Canon DV (the one without firewire capability)

Roaming (recording to tape)

• Canon DV (The one WITH firewire capability, for hasty capturing and editing)

tripods

• Manfrotto black (the big one) (indoors for wide shot o=ver people's heads?)
• the 'okay' black tripod from Jessops (also Manfrotto I think --Malcolm.chambers 13:50, 30 May 2010 (UTC)) (for use at the indoor stage)
• Manfrotto silver 2 (Indoor stage, at front of stage, MS4/MS5)
• Small, old, from-ebay tripod (Indoor stage, drummer?)

• Jessops silver tripod (On Balcony with canon dv? eg for reasonably smooth panning when introducing people, panning to the audience etc) No good for a heavy camera anyway
• Satchler (V139, Miranda (Sony) tripod)
• Manfrotto silver 1 (Dolley at main stage)

!! Preferably Need More Tripods !!

Mixers

• DaVE
• Mr T. Trolley
• P164
  • a P164 is not a Maurice! - Maurice is the controls for it! P164's do come in mixer variants too - I thought I threw all these out, maybe I kept one --Malcolm.chambers 13:50, 30 May 2010 (UTC)

Switchers

• P169
  • 7 inputs:

HD 1, HD 2, HD 3, Miranda (sony), DV (no firewire), Howard (probably), VTPC - remember input 5 brightens images

• P169 Serial lead
• P169 Laptop
• Touchscreen

• VT 'P169' ? Useful for changing outputs to a couple of preview monitors, can't hurt to take a spare. Manual opertaion only unfortunately --Malcolm.chambers 13:50, 30 May 2010 (UTC)

Playback devices

• VTPC

Preview Monitors

• 6 from the premiere valley of the edit PC'
• Net Mon
• Dave Prog Mon
• VTPC mon
• GFX mon
• Vidserv in Mon
• Remember a monitor/big tv for URY

Mike, why are there so many monitors? - If one dies no-one wants to walk all the way back!

Recording devices

• VT A
• VT B for indoor stage ? --Malcolm.chambers 13:50, 30 May 2010 (UTC)

Capture devices

Responsibility of computing team

Streamage devices

Responsibility of computing team

• New stream0
• Edit PC

Other bits

• O.B.Party Box
• DAs !!
• Audio Mixer
• The nice omnidirectional mic, and cage, for mounting on balcony. Should be parallel with face of building to maximise sound received from stage, and minimise wind.

Other more serious bits

• Techie fixbox
  • Soldering iron
  • Solder!
  • Crimp kit
  • BNC Crimpers
  • Cat5 crimpers
  • Scrwedrivers (all types!)
  • Cable ties
  • every single adaptor (audio and video) we can find, breakout cables etc. M-M F-F XLR)
• Insulating tape
  • different colours!
    • everyone gets a different colour, so when packing up, we know who coils odd
    • I hope it's not me
    • It'll look nice too
  • on a more serious note, any taping we do that people will see should be black, and "haz'd" where appropriate.