WHAT YOU SHOULD KNOW
Read below to discover what can happen if you attempt to “do it yourself”
The Cellphone Stream
What you should think about when planning to use a cellphone to live stream a private wedding event.
Is a cellphone going to be the quality and reliability you want?
Will the cell service at the location be reliable at the critical time of “I-Do”?
Who will hold the phone?
Does the person holding the phone know how to capture the event and connect to the remote guests?
Will the cellphone have enough battery power to capture the entire event?
Is the video from the cellphone going to be viewable after the event and saved?
Will the tiny microphone on the cellphone be able to pick up loud and clear audio?
Will the cellphone overheat in the hot sun and shutdown?
What platform will the cellphone connect to for the remote guests to see and hear the event?
Will the platform you are connecting to pause or remove audio when a copyright issue is detected with music is playing in the background?
What Can Happen Without A Professional
You are the company’s communication manager and the day you have been planning for the Q3 rally event is here. Your CEO wanted live video for the event to share her big news, and the IT help desk team said “sure, we can do video“.
One minute to start, the IT team gives you a thumbs-up as they plug in the webcam, point it at the podium and hit the start meeting button on your company’s meeting platform. The CEO starts off on her presentation.
Thirty seconds into the event, you start getting text messages from remote coworkers…
“Hey, we can’t hear the CEO talking.”
“Is she sharing the deck on the meeting?”
“FYI, the video is very choppy and blurry.”
“We can’t hear anything, I think you are muted.”
“The video keeps cutting out.”
You run over and show the IT team the text messages, they tell you “everything should be working fine”. The IT team starts to click through the settings in the meeting platform trying to figure out what’s happening with audio and video.
Five minutes into the event, your CEO is running her presentation, focused on sharing her big news. You tell her to stop because the remote attendees are not able to hear or see her.
You and the IT team try for 8 stressful minutes and were not able to resolve, so you are forced to cancel. Now you have one very unhappy CEO, 83 employees in the room and 154 remote employees logged in not knowing what just happened, or how Q3 is going.
After the rally, the CEO tells you to hire a professional for live streaming the next rally event.
Contact us for your next event, so this does not happen to you.