Engineering - Update

The Matter contract was signed yesterday, so now things can really get going. Since the start of term we have has two meetings with all of the engineers (including the first years) along with several other meetings with each department. We have decided to split engineering into three areas each led by a different person:

• Outside Broadcasts (George Alton) - Dealing with all of the live shows on the day, building the flyaway and operating the truck, QC and Post Production support have also been grouped under this area this year.
• Interactivity (Alex Govett) - Creating the website and media management assets for the pods inside of Matter.
• Transmission (Jamie Fletcher) - Applying for DTT license along with managing playout and the transmission flyaway.

On the day itself there are plans for:

• A live channel and a prerecorded channel to be broadcast via DTT
• 3 Live events - 2 run from the OB truck and the other run from a flyaway
• A Post Production area where there is to be continuous ingest of material recorded throughout the day to create the final montage
• Interactive pods placed throughout the venue the delegates will be able to view the live streams along with the pre-recorded content, they will also be able to access students CV's via email.

These areas are the main focus of each department, once general plans have been drawn up then we can start assembling equipment and testing different methodologies to find the best way to make Rave Live happen.

A wiki area for engineering has been set up so that at every stage we know exactly where we are heading:

http://confluence.rave.ac.uk/confluence/display/FComm/Rave+Live+Engineering+Page