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 Missouri Baptist University (MBU) Athletics was expanding into video streaming in 2012 and was running a single camera operation. As they looked into the upcoming years they decided they needed to increase the operation for an impactful experience for their viewers. Brad Cygan, now former Sports Information Director of MBU, sought out the Communications Studio Technical Manager and I to build and manage a multi-camera video production set up that could be mobile for streaming sports (basketball, football, volleyball and soccer). We would need to teach students in the Communications and Sports Management departments in proper camera use in sports /broadcast setting. My Role Over my time with MBU Spartan Digital Network I held many positions (Producer, Video Streaming Engineer, Media Player Controller, Graphics (Live Scoreboard, Lower Thirds, Etc.) and Audio Engineer). In the beginning stages I would be responsible for full set up and tear down. We would run cables every game and set up cameras/tripods. We would continue to develop our set up and cut down on set up time and ease of operation. The last couple of years at my time with SDN we were asked to broadcast the NAIA Volleyball National Championships in 2015 and 2016 on ESPN 3. I managed the talent and contact with ESPN3 for commercial breaks and produced the broadcast with the Technical Director. |