Post by: desocietas on March 07, 2012, 10:08:59 pm
Post by: jcalder8 on March 07, 2012, 10:20:20 pm
Post by: desocietas on March 07, 2012, 10:28:37 pm
Post by: kingrat101 on March 08, 2012, 02:27:44 am
Post by: foxhack on March 08, 2012, 05:56:27 am
Post by: desocietas on March 08, 2012, 09:07:26 am
If you see that Fez guy, kick him in the shins for me.
Ha, do you have a grudge against him? I felt bad because I hadn't heard of Fez before the show...
Nice! How was that?
It was a lot of fun! Definitely made me wish it were 10 years ago and I'd decided to go video game making school instead of art school... Also reaffirms that I should consider changing my career field. Game development is probably not as pretty as it looks at the awards show, but it sounds more satisfying than what I'm doin' these days.
Plus, looking at all the nominees and winners for the IGF awards, I realized there are a lot of indie games I need to hunt down and play.
Post by: foxhack on March 08, 2012, 12:35:29 pm
Ha, do you have a grudge against him? I felt bad because I hadn't heard of Fez before the show...No, I just think he's an arrogant, ignorant douchebag.
http://www.develop-online.net/news/40061/GDC-Japanese-dev-mocked-your-games-suck
Sorry for veering this off-topic.
Post by: matt on March 08, 2012, 12:46:59 pm
Post by: desocietas on March 08, 2012, 12:54:19 pm
So please tell, how'd you crash it!?
The S.O. helps do the AV and tech work for conferences and shows like this. As simple as borrowing a coworker's badge... :)
He said it should allow me access to almost anywhere at the conference but I was too afraid to go anywhere else but the awards ceremony.
Post by: dstone on March 08, 2012, 01:46:31 pm
Post by: desocietas on March 08, 2012, 02:35:12 pm
Looks like a pretty sweet AV setup was used. Did they utilize any IMAG or were the side screens used strictly for prerecorded footage?
The side screens were used for image magnification of the hosts and, kind of like Oscars, had guys on the floor with cameras ready to point at anyone who was walking up to the stage to accept their award. Pretty snazzy production. The center circular screen didn't really have much other than prerecorded text.
Oh, and the side screens would cut to trailers and such for nominees and the occasional Mega64 transitions.
Gamespot had it streaming, so I think everything on those side screens was probably what showed up in the videocast. If you have time to watch it (http://www.gamespot.com/events/gdc-2012/video.html?sid=6365134&category=highlights), the Warren Spector speech was pretty good.
I was hoping they had the IGF awards on the site, too, this year, but I can't seem to locate it. That one was actually a little better in some ways, but maybe because it wasn't all the big names we've already heard over and over again.
Post by: desocietas on March 08, 2012, 02:40:16 pm
No, I just think he's an arrogant, ignorant douchebag.
http://www.develop-online.net/news/40061/GDC-Japanese-dev-mocked-your-games-suck
Sorry for veering this off-topic.
Wow, that's crazy. I think I saw a Kotaku headline about that comment but didn't realize it was him... That's an insensitive response to a fellow developer, that's for sure.
Post by: dstone on March 08, 2012, 03:40:46 pm
Technical production on these kinds of events are always the most fun. I've been studying broadcast production at my university, seems they want everyone to go into news or post production work. I've been technical director for a number of newscasts for the university, gets boring after a while. But live field production, that's where the fun's at.
Post by: desocietas on March 08, 2012, 03:53:33 pm
Nice, looks like a four cam setup? One each on stage left and stage right and two in the back center? Would love to know what video switcher was used.
Technical production on these kinds of events are always the most fun. I've been studying broadcast production at my university, seems they want everyone to go into news or post production work. I've been technical director for a number of newscasts for the university, gets boring after a while. But live field production, that's where the fun's at.
Hehe, I'll check with the boyfriend. I think he may have been the lead projectionist, sitting right behind that center circular screen. He's always talking about switchers and stuff and I always have a hard time keeping up... It was neat seeing how things look from behind the curtain - it's like figuring out how a magic trick works.
Post by: dstone on March 08, 2012, 04:25:58 pm
Hehe, I'll check with the boyfriend. I think he may have been the lead projectionist, sitting right behind that center circular screen. He's always talking about switchers and stuff and I always have a hard time keeping up... It was neat seeing how things look from behind the curtain - it's like figuring out how a magic trick works.
Lol, once I got behind the curtain I never wanted to come back out. It's always fun seeing the new kids come in and freak out over the number of buttons and sliders and such on the little 24 channel audio mixer. Then they really freak over the video switcher (24 inputs with three mix effects buses). It just looks complicated. We're always making jokes about firing the Death Star laser (they used a Grass Valley 1600 as the firing controls in the film).
Post by: desocietas on March 08, 2012, 10:36:54 pm
I don't really know much of what that means, but maybe you will :)
Post by: dstone on March 11, 2012, 10:10:10 am
We're rocking two Christie Roadrunners for our front screens that are pushing 10k lumens each. They're the older design that uses four bulbs per projector and sound like a small jet engine when running. We're currently running the projectors and confidence monitors through an Autopatch matrix switch that I picked up off eBay a while back. Going to have to look in to those Spyder units, looks like it would replace a lot of gear in the rack and maybe even eliminate the need for a 2ME switcher.
This was taken shortly after the video system was installed around 2004. We've moved to a bit more contemporary service since then and upgraded some parts of the sound system. Also added some up lighting behind the choir.
The control room from a little over a year ago. We use robotic cameras, which is great that we only need one operator. I'd still like to add at least two more manned camera stations as the robotic pan/tilt heads take a lot of life out of the movements.
We had a big production for the Fourth of July where we added two manned camera stations to the mix; ended up borrowing the Sony Anycast Station from our youth group to merge with the system to get enough inputs. Ended up directing the technical side of the show and running the switchers; was quite the handful. I'm really looking forward to the equipment upgrade, should bring some much-needed simplicity to our setup. And with live productions, simplicity is key.
Would love to work on some corporate events like what you went to.
Post by: desocietas on March 16, 2012, 03:30:47 pm
Would love to work on some corporate events like what you went to.
He's been in the business with his union for a bit now, worked up the ladder to doing lead gigs. Certainly helps to be living in a (relatively) big city!
After this taste of GDC, I think I'll definitely have to make an effort to go to up to PAX.