Live Streaming and Multi-Camera Coverage for Oticon at The Triffid

SUMMARY

There are some venues that do half the work for you visually. The Triffid is one of them.

For Oticon Live, Veritas Events turned the Brisbane venue into a virtual event that moved between polished presentations and a live performance from James Johnston. Inverse came in to handle the cameras and the stream, working alongside Scene Change on the wider technical setup.

The show had two very different energies under one roof. On one side, the Oticon team were presenting from a studio-style set. On the other, James Johnston was performing live on stage.

The trick was making those two worlds feel like one show.

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LETTING THE VENUE DO SOME OF THE TALKING

‍Rather than cutting abruptly from one setup to the other, we used an 8-metre jib to move through the space and reveal the scale of the venue.That gave the broadcast a sense of movement you do not normally get from a corporate virtual event. The camera could leave the presentation area, travel through the room and land on the stage, so the transition became part of the visual language instead of something we had to hide.

With six cameras in play, we could keep the coverage varied without making it feel busy. Some shots held the structure of the show together, while the wireless cameras and jib gave us the freedom to move with it.

AND THEN THERE IS THE PART NOBODY WANTS TO TALK ABOUT

A live stream can look incredible right up until the internet decides otherwise.

We used our bonded connection to give the stream a more resilient route out of the venue, which meant the virtual audience could watch without the production team spending the entire show staring nervously at a bandwidth graph.

Not glamorous. Very important.

THE RESULT?

A virtual event that actually felt like an event...this was not our first rodeo!

The studio content had polish. The performance had energy. The transitions between them made use of the venue rather than fighting against it.

And for the audience watching remotely, the whole thing felt closer to a proper live show than a corporate webcast.

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