Live Studio Broadcast for World Science Festival Brisbane

SUMMARY

WHEN THE VENUES FLOODED, THE FESTIVAL CAME TO US

We were all set to film World Science Festival Brisbane at venues around the city when the floods hit. With most of those venues out of action and parts of Brisbane hard to reach, the festival team moved a large part of the program online, broadcast from our studio in Moorooka.

A plan built around live audiences in theatres became a week of sessions made for people watching on a screen.

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A WEEK IN THE STUDIO

For that week, the studio became the festival’s broadcast home. We supplied four HD cameras and the production behind them, which covered directing, live vision switching, video and graphics playback, audio and lighting.

Having all of it under one roof meant the festival didn’t have to find a new venue, a crew and a broadcast setup separately. Everything was in one place and ready to go.

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A QUIET ROOM AND A FAST CONNECTION

The studio is soundproofed, so the conversations happened in a controlled space instead of a venue built for something else.

Every session went out live over the studio’s gigabit fibre connection, so the festival could still reach its audience while the venues it had planned on were closed.

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THE RESULT

A week of live science sessions broadcast from our studio, keeping the festival going when its venues couldn’t.

We got to work with some great people, and we learned a lot of science along the way.