Event reportage consists of recording your event and amplifying it quickly beyond the confines of its venue and date. I pride myself on getting content distributed online within 24 hours, if not during the event itself. My toolkit is light and unobtrusive and my preference is for substantial content packaged for the social web. If you want to show the world what happened at your event and spread the word far and wide, I can provide you with the material to do that.

Services include:

Photography – High quality images capturing both the main events and the general ambience.

Video – From lo-fi verbatim recordings of talks to high-quality footage. Live-streaming available.

Liveblogging – Live summaries and notes from presentations for a remote audience. Managing Twitter accounts.

Social Reporting – Monitoring social media for conversations about the event and engaging where appropriate. Capturing data for analysis later.

A sample package

This is for a two day outdoor event intended to demonstrate activity and promote the second day. All uploads are to client accounts. An average fee for this would be £200 per day, subject to requirements.

Day One

Daytime

• Informal unobtrusive video (using Flip or phone camera).
• Video any specific events, presentations, talks, performances, etc in full if required.
• High quality DSLR photography.
• Ambient twitter activity conveying the mood and posting photos via phone.

Evening

• Quick editing (nothing fancy) and posting informal video to your YouTube (or similar) channel.
• Processing and uploading of photos.
• Composing blog post(s) summarizing the event and integrating photos and video for your blog.

Day Two

Daytime

• Continue twitter activity.
• Continue photographing activity.
• More considered and high quality video activity (using Nikon DLSR).
• Video any specific events, presentations, talks, performances, etc in full if required.

Evening

• Processing and uploading of photos.
• Editing and uploading of any event footage.
• Preparation of higher quality footage into a showreel or similar, as required.
• Composing blog post(s) summarizing the event and integrating photos and video for your blog.

After the event

• Provide you with high-resolution copies of photos and raw video footage that you can use. (I retain copyright on photos but give you non-exclusive license to use it.)

Clients have included:

GLI.TC/H Birmingham (Digital arts festival)
Biting Back (Conference)
X48 Gamecamp (Microsoft programming competition)

Photography

I also provide photographic services and commissions. Here is some recent commercial work.

Birmingham Opera Company

The Destroyers

Tom and Clare Lennon’s wedding

Daz and Emma Wright’s wedding

My photography is online at Flickr.