[Frameworks] new architecture/buildings/rooms wired with cameras and mics

[Tom Whiteside]

Something one should always do these days is put in twice as many conduits as you need - when you run conduit to camera positions, run one for current needs and an extra one for future use. It is so much easier to do this during construction. Later when you switch from copper to fiber optic (or whatever it might be) you are ahead of the game.

And keep in mind that you need power at each camera position.

Tom Whiteside
Durham Cinematheque

From: FrameWorks [mailto:frameworks-bounces at jonasmekasfilms.com] On Behalf Of Shelly Silver
Sent: Friday, December 06, 2013 5:54 PM
To: Experimental Film Discussion List
Subject: Re: [Frameworks] new architecture/buildings/rooms wired with cameras and mics

thanks ryder:
what i'm most interested in hearing about is video cameras/recording devices.  not so much playback or projection.

best,
shelly

On Dec 6, 2013, at 4:49 PM, Ryder White <ryder.white at gmail.com<mailto:ryder.white at gmail.com>> wrote:


Hi Shelly,
A few years ago, when I was still in university, our contemporary arts department moved to a new purpose-built facility complete with a lot of the kind of integrated infrastructure I think you're talking about. Instead of having a lot of independent systems, every lecture hall and seminar room had all the media playback and recording devices (as well as the lights, screens, blinds, etc) controlled by the same console that was linked back to a central server. It made for a much nicer space in that there weren't wires and cables and carts everywhere, but it was still fraught with difficulty. One of the main problems was that the configuration of each space was only MOSTLY the same...they all differed somewhat. Besides that, the control interface itself was not particularly intuitive.
To my mind, it is a nice thing to do but only if it can be done in a very particular way. For one thing, ensure consistency throughout your systems, because learning one new way of using a space is hard enough. Secondly, demo your interface options extensively and always ask yourself "Is this something that the least technologically literate person in our organization could use?" It's pretty awful when class/session/presentation time gets cut down because you can't figure out how to differentiate the projector controls from the lighting ones.
Hope that helps. I only have experience with the one setup, though, so I'd like to hear if anyone knows of more positive implementations.
Best,

RW

On Fri, Dec 6, 2013 at 1:10 PM, Shelly Silver <silvernyc at earthlink.net<mailto:silvernyc at earthlink.net>> wrote:
dear all:
does anyone have experience, good or bad, with rooms pre-built with wiring, cameras, mics.  not for surveillance but for filming lectures, etc.
im involved in the pre-planning of a building and i want to collect experiences.

thanks!
shelly
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