[vcf-midatlantic] VCF East 2024 videos

[Jeffrey Brace]

On Tue, Jun 4, 2024 at 8:41 AM Crawford Griffith via vcf-midatlantic <
vcf-midatlantic at lists.vcfed.org> wrote:

> Jeff B., All,
>
> Well,  looks like my VCFE talk was one of the first posted… it can only get
> better from here folks!  My first Youtube video, in fact.
>

I agree!


>
> I know the amount of effort that goes into recording and making these
> videos, so please do not take this as criticism. You folks do an awesome
> job.   I only want to make things better if possible, and do a better job
> myself next time.
>

Any constructive criticism as well as brainstorming is helpful!


>
> I encouraged questions and interactivity right upfront in my presentation,
> I think the audience enjoyed that and I certainly did!  But there was no
> way a mike could be run to each person asking a question or making a
> comment.  I was also not diligent enough to repeat the question so it got
> recorded.  So, the questions were mostly inaudible, but I (mostly) remember
> them.  But it left information gaps in the audio. How is this handled
> usually if at all?  Could the questions be captioned?  Could a directional
> mike be used to pick up audience comments?  (I’m not looking to make more
> work for anyone but me!)
>

Getting the questions into the microphone has been a problem for years.
I've made a lot of effort to
1) Get mic runners to ask people to speak into the microphone.
2) Remind speakers to repeat the question.

I've thought about having a walk up microphone, but I'm not sure most
people will want to do that. We can try next year.
We got more volunteers for 2024, but we are still lacking. The A/V guys
hand the equipment side, but we need a "Speaker Support" side of volunteers
to handle issues such as this.

I can ask the A/V guys about a directional microphone, but I think that a
volunteer might be needed to move it. I don't know.


>
> Anyway thanks to all who worked the talk production.  And I will practice
> not saying ‘umm’ so much when I’m being recorded!
>

Yeah. That's a learning experience for all public speakers. I'm sure I do a
lot of things that are distracting and can be improved myself!


>
> -Crawford Griffith
>