American Cancer Society Embraces Live Video Production
By Jim Bask
In addition to fighting cancer, the American Cancer Society (ACS) embraces emerging technology in outreach for education and fundraising. In this video, Andy Huff, Sr. Dir. Multimedia Services for ACS shares how media production technologies have allowed them to achieve high production values while expanding from studio-based to remote production. By embracing new social media and online distribution, they have been able to multiply the sizes of audiences reached in their live-streaming from 15,000 impressions to over a million.
On Oct. 14, 2016, Anacortes High School opened the doors to its new Seahawks Stadium with a sold-out homecoming football game crowd and a flood of community support, all made possible by the passage of an $86.9 million bond in 2015. As the state-of-the-art facility opened, the Washington school’s Broadcast Club entered a new era of live high school sports broadcasting thanks to new equipment — also made possible by the generosity of the community….
Streaming and recording appliance puts the focus on video depositions
In general, art and theatre patrons are keen to view and support manifold performances. The dilemma they face on which performances to pick and travel to attend is reduced to an extent by the ability to view the live streams of these same shows from across the world. Guildford School of Acting (GSA) is the arts and performance hub at the University of Surrey, one of the most highly regarded theatre schools in the UK and arguably the foremost musical theatre school in the world. GSA trains performers and technical theatre artists and produces around 40 public-facing live events every year in genres including theatre, musical theatre, dance, music and performance art.
Election Day 2016. Polling places jammed with harried voters, anxiously awaiting the opportunity to exercise their rights as citizens and vote for the candidate of their choice. For broadcasters, Election Day can be its own special kind of hell, testing resources, testing nerves, requiring everyone on the team to think on their feet and prepare for any eventuality. Election Day can make or break a young reporter’s career, something Dylan Cleland knows all too well as he stands before the camera grasping his microphone with an unsteady hand.
Avid sponsored the annual ACE EditFest in London this summer and had the chance to sit down with a must-see panel of talented editors. Our new Making The Cut blog series features award–winning editors discussing their craft, their workflows, creative processes and upcoming projects in an exclusive and intimate setting.