One of our talented friends who offers event organization services Greg Gioia called us up to film an event for a start up event in San Francisco. He needed one videographer to film one-hour PowerPoint presentation and a speaker on stage, and film the before and after reception and mingling of the 100 or so people attending. This event is for a corporation called Counsyl.
Counsyl is a tech company involved in genetic testing in pregnancy. They develop technologies that make it affordable for anyone. At the company event, they gave a presentation to train or inform other employees and business partners about their newest technology and discoveries.
Before and after the presentation, there was time for networking, fun activities, and raffles. This video footage was used for b-roll for the 3 to 5 minute highlight of the event shown below. The highlight also expresses the overview of what Counsyl with the footage taken at the event, and existing footage provided by Counsyl such as the laboratory machines and lab samples.
Equipment used was a 5D Mark III on a tripod with a Canon 70-200 L lens to capture the presenter. Audio was capture from the mixer by an audio recorder. Sound was recorded separately to be synced at post production. A Rode mic was place on-camera to capture ambient sound. In terms of the lights, it was a difficult situation as we have thought that it was going to be provided by the stage managers, so we used a spotlight provided by the audio guy. We have recently bought an Arri 150watt lamp to light the presenter without obstructing the PowerPoint screen, so this situation would be solve for our future shoots similar to this one.