With beautiful b-roll, slow motion, drone footage, and well-chosen interview footage (at one point, the interviewee is only seen in an extreme wide shot), the producers bring out the excitement and the invention of the event. For all intents and purposes, it’s the kind of event that can look like a bunch of nerds in a room. Now, we think hackathons are cool – they’re breeding grounds for innovation – but this is a bigger achievement than you might think. There are a bunch of hackathons, and a bunch of hackathon videos, and this is the best one we’ve seen: it merges high production values with cinematic flair. As we get older, watching this video seems way better than actually going. There are also some fabulous drone shots, and most importantly, the video highlights the best of the festival as a way to attract visitors to attend in future.

It highlights the fun and revelry of attending the festival, seeing the acts, and the communal bond that only those who spend three nights a year getting trashed in a field can enjoy.

Coachella Thank YouĪ music festival is many things to many people: an opportunity to see artists new and old a chance to partake in guilt-free indulgences a way for stressed-out finance workers, self-taught yoga instructors, and rich teens to cut loose and go feral for a few days.Ĭoachella’s 2016 Thank You Video is an example of one of the best event videos because it captures this unique, multi-dimensional appeal. The finished product is fantastic and makes really good use of visual storytelling. This video uses some shocking images of current events with extraordinary sound design. Here are fifteen of the best event videos. So, they’re particularly hard to get right and that’s why, when they’re good, event videos tend to be really good. Your ‘raw materials’ depend entirely on what happens on a specific day and date, and what people say: you don’t get any do-overs or second chances. Because event videos, more than regular corporate videos, are shaped and defined by how people behave. The conference took place over 5 days and a daily highlights video was produced to displayed as attendees arrived for the conference the next day.Event video production is a curious beast: your event video needs to have a clear cinematic perspective and it needs to have a high production value, despite the inconvenient intrusions of real life. Alongside this, we were also filming in the 3000 seat Plenary Theatre, capturing Multicam presentations. This was a 3 camera shoot with a dedicated press area for interviews. I was hired by InVision Communications to provide services for the 7th EuCheMS conference in Liverpool, filming and editing interviews, the opening and closing ceremonies as well as lectures given by visiting Professors from around the world.įilm crew still Courtesy of Royal Society of Chemistry and MPP Photography. Trade show and conference coverage is a team effort and I am often brought in by agencies and other video production companies to provide filming and editing services on the ground and to deliver content to the client while the event is in progress. Promoting an event is not just about generating buzz leading up to the event itself, it is also about showcasing it afterwards those who couldn’t attend – and can see what they missed and attend your future events.

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