[Wylug-discuss] videoing talks

[Paul Brook]

> Lighting may be difficult. To get a decent quality shot of the speaker we
> may need light levels which are high enough to make the projection screen
> difficult for the audience to see.

TBH I don't really care about seeing the speaker.  The most important things 
to capture are the projector output and the audio.  I've seen way to many 
recorded presentations where you get a great view of the presenters t-shirt, 
but the sound is abysmal (like listening to someown from the other side of a 
swimming pool), and can only see the bottom half of the slides.

> It is fairly straightforward to capture audio and video of the speaker, but
> capturing the audience interaction and questions as well is harder.

A bit of speaker education works wonders here.  It's standard practice for the 
speaker to repeat the question for the benefit of the audience.  Not so much 
of an issue ay WyLUG, but at most conferences the speaker is the only one 
with a mic, so half the audience can't hear the questions either.

Paul