ncspra - tricks, tips, and what do you do when this happens

NSPRA – October 22, 2015

Traps, Tricks, and Traps, Tricks, and What Do You Do What Do You Do WhenWhenThis Happens?This Happens?Lauri Crowder, MA, MS

Onslow County School System--------------------Jonathan Jones, JDElon University

Onslow County Schools Multimedia

Onslow County Schools serves approximately 26,000 students in 7 High Schools, 8 Middle Schools, and 19 Elementary Schools.

2 Full-Time Producer-Directors

Onslow County Schools Multimedia Standard Definition – 3 studio cameras/mixer –

Board of Education 2 HD cameras, 3 HDV Cameras - 2 iMacs – FCP 10

Onslow County Schools Multimedia Produced over 100 hours of programming 2014-2015 Over 40% scripted/original

The Goal

Do the BEST job possible – whatever the circumstances.

Video/Photo TRAPS

Visual Traps Backgrounds Ugly junk - curtains Bleachers Projector screens Trash cans Photo bombs Low lighting

Video/Photo TRAPS

Visual Traps Backgrounds Ugly junk Bleachers This should say:I love reading in the dark and aroundmusical backdrops.

Video/Photo TRAPS

Visual Traps Backgrounds Ugly junk Bleachers

Video/Photo TRAPS

Visual Traps Backgrounds Pretty

Video/Photo TRAPS

Visual Traps Backgrounds Curtains

Video/Photo TRAPS

Visual Traps Backgrounds Projector screens

Video/Photo TRAPS

Visual Traps Backgrounds Trash cans –Podium placement

Video/Photo TRAPS

Trash Can

Video/PhotoTRAPS

Trash Can

TRAPS

Visual Traps Backgrounds Photo bombs (Michael Elder Video)

TRAPS

Visual Traps Backgrounds BOE Meeting

Audio TRAPS

Audio Traps Microphones – (Video)

USE THEM!And with efficacy.

Audio TRAPS

Audio TRAPSIf you are using the open air mic on the camera, be conscious of what isaround you and of your own talking! Air Conditioners

Extraneous noises - traffic, construction, buses, etc.Electrical hums from lights

Best PracticesFOCUS, FOCUS, FOCUS!!!!!!!Use a tripod!Don’t constantly zoom – MOVE to get your shot!

Lighting – Keep sun, windows to your back!

Framing – Use Rule of Thirds!

Best Practices

Prepare your talent – Check out tips for looking your best and for preparing a PowerPoint on TV.

https://sites.google.com/siteonslowschoolstvCheck out our website for information on

how to Look your best for broadcastand other considerations.

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https://sites.google.com/siteonslowschoolstv

Best Practices

Colored Tyvek bands to identify students who can be photographed and those who can not. – When in doubt –Don’t!

Set the room up to create the best “set” possible.

Tap helpers – people you can get to help you solve problems if you are tied up.

Have a good plan for what you want the outcome to be: who is going to speak, do they know where they need to go, who is going to help you direct them to that spot?

What is your plan and back-up plan?

Best Practices

(Don’t be late to be early!)

Using YouTube – Twitter Make them all look a like to create a branding awareness and, ORGANIZE your YouTube Channel!

Best Practices

YouTube

Twitter

EquipmentStandard Definition to High Definition (Ultra High Definition and beyond)

SD - 720 x 480 HD - 1920 x 1080 4K - 4096 x 2160UHD is a resolution of 3840 pixels × 2160 lines (8.3 megapixels, aspect ratio 16:9) and is one of the two resolutions of ultra high definition television targeted towards consumer television.

UHD has twice the horizontal and vertical resolution of the 1080p.

YouTube and Vimeo allow a maximum upload resolution of 4096 × 3072 pixels (12.6 megapixels, aspect ratio 4:3).

EquipmentDon’t fall into these TRAPS!

Stand Still – Video is always evolving! The growth of DSLR camera is proof. Have a scalable solution to your production equipment. It will afford you the ability to upgrade your equipment.

Don’t Over Spec Your Need (or UNDER spec) – When you over purchase it is wasting money. There is no substitute for assessing your own requirements, then research - be honest about what it is you want to produce. Under spec-ing leads to substandard video and can be costly also.

EquipmentDon’t fall into these TRAPS!

Don’t Blame Your Equipment – Your content is most important! Don’t lose sight of of story and message. Learn to use your equipment effectively!

Technology Paranoia – You will never catch up with technology – upgrade your equipment when your old equipment ceases to do the job but don’t underestimate your audience. Video is ubiquitous and as video becomes more wide spread and quality improves, so will the expectations from your audience.

Up and Coming Closed Captioning and Subtitles

Closed Captioning is a subtitling system designed to make television more accessible to the hearing-impaired. Unlike movie Subtitles, which are intended to translate dialogue for people who can hear the rest of the soundtrack, Closed Captions need to convey all important sound effects, music cues, nonverbal expressions, and dialogue that occur as a program plays.


Closed Captioning is mandated by the FCC – So. . . What are the exemptions?

Closed captioning is also not required for video programming transmitted by an Instructional Television Fixed Service (ITFS) licensee (educational video programming, such as for school districts and university systems). Closed captioning is also not required for educational programming produced locally by public television stations for use in schools, including post-secondary schools. Other laws, such as the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), require schools to make their educational services accessible to individuals with disabilities. To comply with these other laws, schools may need to caption their televised programs.

Closed captioning is not required for video programming that is: (1) locally produced by the video programming distributor; (2) has no repeat value (is not worth showing more than one time); (3) is of local public interest; (4) is not news programming; and (4) cannot be captioned using the “electronic news room” technique of captioning. The FCC intended that this exception to the closed captioning rules would “apply only to a limited class of truly local materials, including, for example, local parades, local high school and other nonprofessional sports, live unscripted local talk shows, and community theatre productions.” FCC 1997 Report & Order at ¶ 158.


Closed Captioning is mandated by the FCC – HOWEVER – The US Department of Justice and the US Department of Education oversee three Federal laws applicable to public schools. IDEA, Title II (Americans with Disabilities Act) and Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973.

Open Meeting LawOpen Meeting Law

Jonathan Jones, B.A., M.A., J.D., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, is the Director of the North Carolina Open Government Center. He has six years of experience as a newspaper reporter in Maryland, Virginia and North Carolina including the News & Record of Greensboro. Editor in chief of the First Amendment Law Review from 2010 to 2011. Published in News Media & the Law and the First Amendment Law Review. Served two years as an assistant district attorney in Durham County, prior to joining Elon.

Jonathan JonesDirector, Sunshine Center of the North Carolina Open Government Coalition


Basic tenets of the Open Meeting Law:

NC General Assembly have declared it law that hearings, deliberations, and actions of public bodies be conducted publicly.

Notice has to be given to the public of meetings, although a public body is not required to set up a regular schedule. If, however it does make a schedule, it has to be on file with a clerk or secretary. If the schedule is revised it must be filed at least 7 calendar days before the next meeting.

Emergency Meetings may be called.

The public has a right to hear but not necessarily be heard, althoughtimes for public hearing may be designated during the meeting.


Public recording and/or broadcasting of official meetings. Can the public record a meeting with their own devicesand then broadcast it elsewhere?

What verbiage on a production signifies it is the official videoor multimedia product of that meeting?

What verbiage should be included in the broadcast*

QUESTIONS – Lauri Crowder/Jonathan Jones


* Onslow County School System Board of Education Notice at end of Board of Education meetings -


Meetings are Gavel to Gavel – what exactly does that mean? Are the comments made before (or after) the gavel, but recorded, discoverable or part of the record?

Can you edit that material out or any part of the meeting – say someone uses foul language or we have a streaker?

When do you go off the record or into recess, by whomdo you take your direction? (Roberts Rules of Order)



Are you obligated to tape audience members who arespeaking out/holding signs up?

How much of a PowerPoint should you keep up onscreen while one is speaking?



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