For the obvious reasons, I invariably get too busy to blog exactly when things get interesting...
Livecast Console
Since technology challenges are equal parts technology development and science outreach, it is very important that we expose a wide audience to what we do.
Towards this goal, NASA TV and Dryden are helping us capture the games and bring them out to your screen like we’ve never been able to before.
The games’ media center will be in this livecast console, which you can reach by click the honkin’ Yellow “LIVE COVERAGE” button at the top of the page. (Top and center, can’t miss it. Really.) The console features four sections:
- The Twittertype – a teletype-like skin for the SEgames twitter account. (Follow it!)
- The Status display – this is where we display messages that we don’t want scrolling off the page.
- The Slide show – the slide show will automatically update with the latest photos we capture.
- The Video screen – switch between the live broadcast, the scoreboard, and four instant replays which will hold the most recent video clips shown on the life broadcast. All videos will be available at our youTube channel.
Of course the blog will be live during the games, and will continuously be updated with the latest and greatest. If you want to catch up to what you missed earlier in the day, just scroll down. (Just like the live-cast console, the blog will update automatically, no need to hit “refresh”)
For the live video coverage, we will have multiple vantage points – a remote telephoto looking at the games from some 1.5 km, a mobile camera at the anchor, a camera at the team staging area where the other teams can watch first place slip from their fingers… We will have the capability to add live voice-over commentary, but are still looking for a narrator.
In addition, we’ll have a few extra cameras in more exotic locations, such as right under the launch point (looking up), right above the end-of-climb marker (looking down), maybe a camera on some of the climbers (the camera counts as payload) etc. While we won’t be able to get these video streams out to you live, we will be able to compile them into a “climb digest” video, and push that out within perhaps an hour after a team’s window is done.
We’re also preparing “offline” or “B-roll” material, which will serve as background content to the live-cast. Over at the media center (back inside Dryden) Ted Semon will be in charge of blogging, tweeting, and video posting.
If all goes well, therefore, we’ll be treating you to a full Space Elevator media experience - hope you’ll like it!