posted 29 May 2011, 08:25 by Jess Maher
First Event & our Launch of the “YouTube Booth” went off this afternoon! We experienced a few glitches, which is to be expected in any “first” really, including missing a lot of a school traffic with a late set up but we still managed to engage a few of the local kids in the community, with roughly 5 or 6 of them starting from start to end… Above you can see the play list of all the footage from the arvo… a lot of people don’t seem to like the camera it appears, including one of the Reb Bull girls which shocked us a little, but props to her for getting in front of the camera anyway! Unfortunately the sound on Mr Whippy’s is no good as our web cam did not like the wind! Paula Bennett, who did not seem to like the booth too much for some reason, was nice enough to record a clip for us anyway but we are struggling to get it up as we had to do it on Jess’ phone instead!
Thanks to all that come along in support and especially to those who were game enough to jump in our Youtube Booth for us and help us share the message and thanks especially to Chade from Sports Waitakere, Skylar from ICE box, Jane from Massey Community Center, Sam from Diesel Phoenix, Richard from Mr Whippy, the Red Bull girls (sorry didn’t get your names!), the team from PDF2Print, Mike from Burger Fuel Lincoln Road, Andy from Social Safe & Minister Paula Bennett for stopping in..
And last but by no means least, massive thanks to Kristi, the “Twirls”; Jude, Anthony & Alanna; Terence & Kelly-Ann; GJ; Matt East & Sir Peter Leitch (Mad Butcher) and anyone else who we may have forgotten to thank here!
__________________________________________________________ WHAT DID WE LEARN FROM THIS EVENT LAUNCH
We had our launch event, trial run for our “YouTube Booth” and Youth Week ‘Celebrate Technology’ event on Friday 27th May. We had the Wii projecting games onto the Community Hall wall, the YouTube Booth in the side room, Sam from Diesel Phoenix brought down his guitar and treated us to some acoustic and Mr Whippy and the Red Bull Girls came down in support and even did a video for us each!! But as with all “firsts”, the lessons and mistakes give considerable opportunity for learning! Heres some of ours… - Always give the printers a time estimate that is before the time required as a absolute cut off!*
- Young girls were much more willing than teenager or younger boys…
- Always have your projector going! It makes all the difference for kids to then get to see themselves on the channel instantly.
- Different people would prefer the booth over talking face to camera with nothing to hide behind! Others would prefer having costumes and props helpful to getting in front of the camera…
- The whole script is too long for people to read the whole thing through at events, the call out cards should be used instead with different filler lines… The kids seemed to prefer the ones that posed a question, like the ‘bystanders can make all the difference, will you?’
- The Introduction aspect needs to be made explicit, only a few people introduced themselves…
- More interaction with thier stories and content, need to explicitly ask questions maybe, even have cue cards for booth operator?
*we had a wee glitch with the printers, whereby having only one car at the moment, James did the mission to pick up last minute requirements, including the data stick and posters and was held up waiting for the last of them, at which time, while he was stuck in traffic- Jess franticly tried to find another way to get to the community center as the 3pm mark got closer and closer… in the end, we probably missed a fair majority of the major school rush of kids as we were not set up enough to capture the main rush of them, however, in our busiest moments, we were rather inundated so it was fairly clear we needed more “booth operator support” and also potentially another recording device to interact with people not wanting to go into the booth so much.. capture some of the gold in the “saw dust” of prior conversations where we were often engaging people in the concepts but not able to draw them in front of the camera… The posters where very professionally done however, in our mad panic setup unfortunately a few are now worse for wear due to inappropriate tape usage etc, but overall we were rather impressed… You can see the shots of our promos flyers and posters etc up in the new temporary office/studio space shortly…
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