television
London Web Standards
19/03/11
Live stream from Ravensbourne at the London Web Standards - State of the Browser event
Inqb8r produced a live stream from the new Ravensbourne collage on the Greenwich Peninsula for London Web Standards.
The event saw a representatives from Opera, Google and Mozilla, demonstrating how they've implemented new technologies.
Speakers included:
Microsoft, Martin Beeby
Opera, Chris Mills
Google, Michael Mahemoff
Inqb8r produced a live stream from the new Ravensbourne collage on the Greenwich Peninsula for London Web Standards.
The event saw a representatives from Opera, Google and Mozilla, demonstrating how they've implemented new technologies.
Speakers included:
Microsoft, Martin Beeby
Opera, Chris Mills
Google, Michael Mahemoff
SUSU elections 2011
03/03/11
Bleeding edge live HD broadcast from Students at Southampton University Students’ Union.
On Thursday 3rd March 2011 Southampton University Students’ Union Television, susutv, broadcast a three hour live high-definition event to mark the results night of their union elections.
SUSUtv broke records last year by becoming the first TV station to broadcast live in HD across the web, and continued with the tradition this year. The results of the 2011 Elections were again live in HD at www.susu.org and www.susu.tv. Due to begin at 9pm, the broadcast was delayed by the sheer numbers of people attempting to tune in at the same time, with 10,000 people tuning in across the night. The broadcast of Elections Night Live was a world first for much of the technology and interactivity from any Students’ Union.
For the first time, the Elections were broadcast from three different spaces, with an extensive green room setup, live media hub and main results stage. To make the night happen, SUSUtv and inqb8r used 60 crew members, £150,000 worth of equipment and over 40 screens. The result was that the three and a half hour broadcast was viewed in 21 countries, was fully interactive and reached 10,000 viewers.
The show, broadcast over multicast, http and in Flash was available to viewers on their set top boxes, laptops and mobile devices.
Viewers via the web were engaged in live onscreen votes, interactive graphics and the usual social media integration, via Twitter and a live blog.
Inqb8r developed a unique live platform to broadcast the event using latest flash technology, doing away with the need for expensive live graphic machines, by utilising the power of the viewers computer to render the graphics within the player.
Lower thirds, live votes, exit poll and results graphics were all drawn in realtime on viewers screens, allowing unique interaction with viewers and the stream and also directly to the presenters of the show and ensuring pin sharp overlays.
The show, entirely produced and run by Southampton students involved numerous clips from the week-long election campaign, a one-take lip-dub of all the candidates, as well as a hosted green room and the main results stage, all hosted in the student union bar.
The broadcast brought together all the media departments of the union, and saw presenters from the radio station, Surge, engaging with the audience on camera as well as live blogging from the Wessex Scene, the union newspaper, from the media hub.
The eight camera shoot was rigged and manned by susutv members, with very smooth cuts between the various studio areas, the results stage and the VTs.
Viewers of the show were entertained by a few hidden features in the player which included a live pingpong game, which was remotely triggered as the candidate results were announced.
Highlighted tweets from viewers on the night included comments from one person watching the show on his iPhone waiting for a plane in Gatwick airport, others who enjoyed the hidden features and started having pingpong matches between themselves as well as numerous comments from people enjoying the quality of the stream and impressed with the capture of the atmosphere from the event.
On Thursday 3rd March 2011 Southampton University Students’ Union Television, susutv, broadcast a three hour live high-definition event to mark the results night of their union elections.
SUSUtv broke records last year by becoming the first TV station to broadcast live in HD across the web, and continued with the tradition this year. The results of the 2011 Elections were again live in HD at www.susu.org and www.susu.tv. Due to begin at 9pm, the broadcast was delayed by the sheer numbers of people attempting to tune in at the same time, with 10,000 people tuning in across the night. The broadcast of Elections Night Live was a world first for much of the technology and interactivity from any Students’ Union.
For the first time, the Elections were broadcast from three different spaces, with an extensive green room setup, live media hub and main results stage. To make the night happen, SUSUtv and inqb8r used 60 crew members, £150,000 worth of equipment and over 40 screens. The result was that the three and a half hour broadcast was viewed in 21 countries, was fully interactive and reached 10,000 viewers.
The show, broadcast over multicast, http and in Flash was available to viewers on their set top boxes, laptops and mobile devices.
Viewers via the web were engaged in live onscreen votes, interactive graphics and the usual social media integration, via Twitter and a live blog.
Inqb8r developed a unique live platform to broadcast the event using latest flash technology, doing away with the need for expensive live graphic machines, by utilising the power of the viewers computer to render the graphics within the player.
Lower thirds, live votes, exit poll and results graphics were all drawn in realtime on viewers screens, allowing unique interaction with viewers and the stream and also directly to the presenters of the show and ensuring pin sharp overlays.
The show, entirely produced and run by Southampton students involved numerous clips from the week-long election campaign, a one-take lip-dub of all the candidates, as well as a hosted green room and the main results stage, all hosted in the student union bar.
The broadcast brought together all the media departments of the union, and saw presenters from the radio station, Surge, engaging with the audience on camera as well as live blogging from the Wessex Scene, the union newspaper, from the media hub.
The eight camera shoot was rigged and manned by susutv members, with very smooth cuts between the various studio areas, the results stage and the VTs.
Viewers of the show were entertained by a few hidden features in the player which included a live pingpong game, which was remotely triggered as the candidate results were announced.
Highlighted tweets from viewers on the night included comments from one person watching the show on his iPhone waiting for a plane in Gatwick airport, others who enjoyed the hidden features and started having pingpong matches between themselves as well as numerous comments from people enjoying the quality of the stream and impressed with the capture of the atmosphere from the event.
Ultra Girls
05/12/10
New girl band ‘The Ultra Girls’ cover the UK’s number one single from The Wanted.
Record Breakers
28/06/10
Charlie breaks a record on the first, FirstTV show.
Charlie completed his first ever 'Challenge Charlie', breaking the world record for fastest typing on the iPad.
The summer special shows feature Charlie McDonnell attempting various world records.
Check back on firsttv.tv to see the record being smashed and see what else he gets up to.
Charlie completed his first ever 'Challenge Charlie', breaking the world record for fastest typing on the iPad.
The summer special shows feature Charlie McDonnell attempting various world records.
Check back on firsttv.tv to see the record being smashed and see what else he gets up to.
BeachBreakLive
20/06/10
The annual pilgrimage down to the UK's largest student film festival didn't go quite as well as it could have, but at least it was sunny.
Beach Break Live was at least on a beach this year, and the sun did shine on the Welsh coast for all to have a jolly good time.
On shoot for climate-change charity 'Global Cool' a small team attempted to quiz the headline acts about their travel habits. Unfortunately the PR company had indeed 'Gone Fishing' and celebrity sightings were few and far-between.
We all got a tan anyway...
Beach Break Live was at least on a beach this year, and the sun did shine on the Welsh coast for all to have a jolly good time.
On shoot for climate-change charity 'Global Cool' a small team attempted to quiz the headline acts about their travel habits. Unfortunately the PR company had indeed 'Gone Fishing' and celebrity sightings were few and far-between.
We all got a tan anyway...
FirstTV launch
10/06/10
FirstTV officially launched by Piers Morgan and friends in London
Nicky Cox, the editor of First News and Piers Morgan officially launched the latest First News project, First TV.
Amongst the many guests were Chico, Dick and Dom, Toby Anstis, Fiona Phillips and many more, celebrating the initial launch of four summer special shows in the coming months and a weekly show in September.
CNN sneaked an interview with Piers, before Charlie and Emma from FirstTV caught up with him for a much more interesting chat. The CNN interview can be found on www.cnn.com and coming soon in the first FirstTV episode in July.
Nicky Cox, the editor of First News and Piers Morgan officially launched the latest First News project, First TV.
Amongst the many guests were Chico, Dick and Dom, Toby Anstis, Fiona Phillips and many more, celebrating the initial launch of four summer special shows in the coming months and a weekly show in September.
CNN sneaked an interview with Piers, before Charlie and Emma from FirstTV caught up with him for a much more interesting chat. The CNN interview can be found on www.cnn.com and coming soon in the first FirstTV episode in July.
First Choice Holiday Village
03/06/10
Whistle-stop production shoot at the First Choice Holiday Village in Malaga, Costa del Sol
A twenty-four hour shoot at one of the TUI Holiday Villages, highlighting all the family activities available on the all-inclusive trips.
Making good use of HD bullet cams and a cut down equipment rig and one man crew, the production will form part of the four summer special FirstTV broadcasts later in July as well as a long version cut especially for First Choice promotional material and inflight use.
A twenty-four hour shoot at one of the TUI Holiday Villages, highlighting all the family activities available on the all-inclusive trips.
Making good use of HD bullet cams and a cut down equipment rig and one man crew, the production will form part of the four summer special FirstTV broadcasts later in July as well as a long version cut especially for First Choice promotional material and inflight use.
Levi's Great Escape
21/05/10
Acoustic sets from the Levi's stage in Audio at The Great Escape in Brighton. Bands included Futureheads, The Perils, Sunshine Underground, Coco and producers like Norman Cook and Dan Ward.
Check out the rest of the clips on the Levi's page.
Check out the rest of the clips on the Levi's page.
NaSTAwards 2010
27/03/10
Presenting the 'Best Animation' award at the NaSTA 2010 conference in Glasgow
Decision Time
16/03/10
'Decision Time' produced by professionals, shot by students and streamed in HD to children on the First News website.
Crewed by Southampton University Students, under the mindful eye of David Mercer, Inqb8r delivered a dynamic, high definition stream to schools and students via www.firstnews.co.uk/decision-time, also providing high quality feeds to broadcasters such as Sky, and to distributer Getty Images.
The student camera crew were directed by David, with help from vision mixer Ian Trill and floor manager Quentin Mann, both industry professionals, having worked on shows like 'Parkinson', 'Eastenders' and 'Never Mind the Buzzcocks'.
Inqb8r ensure high quality streaming to all viewers, whether on a JANET or home connection by using adaptive bit-rate technology.
In the first cross party debate before the General Election First News, the weekly newspaper for children, organised for 100 of their readers to question the Children's Ministers and then vote for the politician they believe best represents their interests.
Ed Balls, the Children's Secretary of State, Michael Gove, the Tory Shadow Secretary and David Laws, the Lib Dem Shadow Secretary went head to head to explain their policies, answer the questions and then the young audience were asked to vote for the politician and party they believe has their best interests at heart.
Some of the questions included;
‣ "Should students have a say in the way the country is run and why is voting age still 18?" Many of the children believe there should be one age where children are treated as adults.
‣ "All the three ministers here today went to private school how can people who have been through an elitist education system relate to the rest of us."
‣ "More than half of young people say they have been bullied. Do you think bullying should be made a crime?" Approximately three quarters of the 100 children in the audience claimed they had been bullied.
‣ "Should members of the BNP be allowed to be teachers?"
‣ "Do you think MP's set the best example of how to behave especially when they are shouting at each other in the House of Commons, when children are expected to behave in school?"
Former GMTV presenter, Fiona Phillips, chaired the First News TV: Decision Time session at the Salmon Youth centre in Bermondsey. Fiona interviewed Prime Ministers and key leaders during her time at GMTV and was delighted to be chairing today's event.
The full HD stream is available online at http://www.firstnews.co.uk/decision-time
Crewed by Southampton University Students, under the mindful eye of David Mercer, Inqb8r delivered a dynamic, high definition stream to schools and students via www.firstnews.co.uk/decision-time, also providing high quality feeds to broadcasters such as Sky, and to distributer Getty Images.
The student camera crew were directed by David, with help from vision mixer Ian Trill and floor manager Quentin Mann, both industry professionals, having worked on shows like 'Parkinson', 'Eastenders' and 'Never Mind the Buzzcocks'.
Inqb8r ensure high quality streaming to all viewers, whether on a JANET or home connection by using adaptive bit-rate technology.
In the first cross party debate before the General Election First News, the weekly newspaper for children, organised for 100 of their readers to question the Children's Ministers and then vote for the politician they believe best represents their interests.
Ed Balls, the Children's Secretary of State, Michael Gove, the Tory Shadow Secretary and David Laws, the Lib Dem Shadow Secretary went head to head to explain their policies, answer the questions and then the young audience were asked to vote for the politician and party they believe has their best interests at heart.
Some of the questions included;
‣ "Should students have a say in the way the country is run and why is voting age still 18?" Many of the children believe there should be one age where children are treated as adults.
‣ "All the three ministers here today went to private school how can people who have been through an elitist education system relate to the rest of us."
‣ "More than half of young people say they have been bullied. Do you think bullying should be made a crime?" Approximately three quarters of the 100 children in the audience claimed they had been bullied.
‣ "Should members of the BNP be allowed to be teachers?"
‣ "Do you think MP's set the best example of how to behave especially when they are shouting at each other in the House of Commons, when children are expected to behave in school?"
Former GMTV presenter, Fiona Phillips, chaired the First News TV: Decision Time session at the Salmon Youth centre in Bermondsey. Fiona interviewed Prime Ministers and key leaders during her time at GMTV and was delighted to be chairing today's event.
The full HD stream is available online at http://www.firstnews.co.uk/decision-time
SUSU elections
03/03/10
Southampton University Students' Union Elections results night streamed live in 720p on Wednesday 3rd March 2010, with technical and production help from Inqb8r.
The 205 minute broadcast was produced, presented and crewed by students under the mindful eye of David Mercer. With over twenty candidates running for six positions, the evening didn't disappoint in being a jam-packed, emotion fueled journey, summarising the last week of campaigning and the result of three days of voting, and the 7156 votes, 30.4%, a UK student record.
With a 400-strong audience of campaign teams and supporters in the West-Refectory (and adjoining union bar) the night was full of live music, voting statistics, green-room interviews, audience banter with the university chaplain and of course the election results, all broadcast in high definition on the World Wide Web.
This year viewers were encouraged to join in with the broadcast, sending questions for the candidate green room, tweet through a comment to the live Twitter wall or texting their predictions as the results were announced live.
The show, shot in HD, was broadcast using dynamic streaming technology from the expertise of Inqb8r team. Viewers experienced a stream up to 720p resolution at 2.5Mbps, with dynamic switching for those viewers on slower connections.
SUSU.TV, the student-run TV society, smashed last year's cumulative viewing figures of 6,200 from over 25 countries as far away as Australia and New Zealand.
To watch the stream click through to elections.susu.org.
The 205 minute broadcast was produced, presented and crewed by students under the mindful eye of David Mercer. With over twenty candidates running for six positions, the evening didn't disappoint in being a jam-packed, emotion fueled journey, summarising the last week of campaigning and the result of three days of voting, and the 7156 votes, 30.4%, a UK student record.
With a 400-strong audience of campaign teams and supporters in the West-Refectory (and adjoining union bar) the night was full of live music, voting statistics, green-room interviews, audience banter with the university chaplain and of course the election results, all broadcast in high definition on the World Wide Web.
This year viewers were encouraged to join in with the broadcast, sending questions for the candidate green room, tweet through a comment to the live Twitter wall or texting their predictions as the results were announced live.
The show, shot in HD, was broadcast using dynamic streaming technology from the expertise of Inqb8r team. Viewers experienced a stream up to 720p resolution at 2.5Mbps, with dynamic switching for those viewers on slower connections.
SUSU.TV, the student-run TV society, smashed last year's cumulative viewing figures of 6,200 from over 25 countries as far away as Australia and New Zealand.
To watch the stream click through to elections.susu.org.
Hamley's 250th
11/02/10
Hamleys had a party to celebrate their 250th birthday with lots of VIPs
Link through for offcuts from an insert for FirstTV featuring a few famous faces
MediaGuardian
01/02/10
NaSTAwards
27/03/09
The National Student Television Awards at Southampton University Students' Union
golden bodgeThe National Student Television Awards at Southampton University Students' Union