Due to Covid-19, The Muny had to postpone their 2020 season to 2021. In lieu of the originally announced 2020 season lineup, a complete schedule of virtual alternative programming was announced. This lineup will include a new series featuring Muny friends and family from around the world called The Muny 2020 Summer Variety Hour Live! For 5 weeks we livestreamed from The Muny a variety show that included segments both old and new. I was responsible from laying out the ground work from the beginning of how the technical aspects of streaming something like this would work and oversaw the stream quality and production checks during rehearsal and live. Old content, clips from The Muny vault of past shows, were cut by myself from over almost a decades worth of footage. Each episodes contained about 3-5 different archive clips from past shows. Each week's episodes were streamed live on Monday, replayed on Thursday (with captions/audio descriptions included) and rehearsed the Friday prior. We would have a production meeting each Saturday morning to go over any notes and edits to the content and schedule. Outside of creating content for the show and overseeing the livestream, I worked with a local Audio Describer company to make sure we could have a fully accessible version of the show available on Thursday, this meant getting each segment audio described and editing the audio in by Thursday morning to have ready to stream that night. Details about the productions: https://muny.org/details-announced-for-the-muny-2020-summer-variety-hour-live/ https://muny.org/muny-announces-record-breaking-streaming-totals-for-first-ever-online-season/ Check out a recap of the productions and a behind-the-scenes look at what it took to create:
The Task The Muny was preparing for the 100th Season and are looking to put on a press conference to announce the season. The Marketing department was tasked with designing and running the press conference. We would also livestream the press conference for all our fans to watch and get excited for the season. My Role I designed a mockup of the stage and ran the video production for the event. I connected with our Graphic Designers to create the content for the screens. I set up the video content into ProPresenter 6. Equipment Used: (2) 80" Sharp TV (1) Desktop Computer - (Streaming/Switching Software - OBS Studio) (1) Mac Laptop - (Video Content Software - ProPresenter 6) (1) Sony HD-SDI - (Camera) (1) Behringer X32 - (Sound Board) The Task As Facebook publicly launched cover videos for pages, our department with tasked with figuring out who to best leverage this new concept. We always had a changing cover image per show detailing the dates and sponsor for that current show. However, the main style that every page was using was just a branding style video for the whole company. We needed to keep it specific to each show and had requirements to keep the show sponsor present at all times. My Role I was able to combine our show montages and the graphic to give a window into the show while keeping the show branding present. I took our original cover image into Photoshop and manipulated it to provide a space for a video to live. We already had a short energetic video each week with our 'Show Montage' so I dropped that behind the logo. The other thing to take note was to make sure it looped and always provided a static image at the top and end of the video. At that time Facebook cover videos would only work on certain devices so we needed to make sure the static would provide all the necessary info right away. Below is an example of how the video looked on the Facebook page.
The Task
Get the community pumped for the new season. We decided to run a Facebook Live countdown stream that played the recap videos from last and overall company branding videos. Season tickets going on sale is a big event for our ticket buyers and what a better way to get ready than countdown to season tickets on sale. Below is a social graphic I created to promote the upcoming stream and a sample from the stream. The Task The Muny needed a system in place to communicate effectively to many different channels in the company. Needed it to be easy for users to understand as the majority of users would only be on the system for the summer. The Muny employs over 200 people in the summer versus around 25 for the off-season. Cost was also a major player as we needed it to be non-profit friendly. The system needed to have ways to group users secretly and have open lines of communication to be effective. We settled on Workplace, Facebook's collaborative platform that was started in 2016. This platform has been a joy to work with and is free for non-profits. My Role I was reached out to by the Casting Director, Production Manager and Director of Marketing to research and deploy the system. I went through Facebook's steps to apply for the program and once approved went about creating the structure for the groups. As I created groups, I was also responsible for setting up the individual accounts and created the steps and best practices for how to set up each users accounts once invited and how to safely and appropriately use this system. An example of the 'Best Practices' document that I created for the end users can be seen here. Day to day I am the admin of the entire system and receive all requests or issues that users send and troubleshoot and resolve all. |