[Newspoetry] Re: tech rehearsal Wednesday night?

[bhagy at onthejob.net]

6ish is better. ojc meeting at 7:30, but we'll be there anyways, and i can
skip it if needed.  

i'm thinking download time is a big factor.  a minute poem can take up to
5 to 6 minutes to download, depending on connection speed.  that could be
a strong deterrent to someone investigating the site.  we can discuss this
next wednesday.

anyone talk to kord about this?  joe, can you come to this?

brian


On Thu, 7 Oct 1999, gillespie william k wrote:

> 
> Brian, and anybody else interested in the digital mechanics of this, how
> would you like to get together at OJC with Kord's videorecorder Wednesday
> at 6 or 7 and just try to videotape things and encode them and put them on
> the Web so as to run through the whole procedure and make sure all the
> pieces of the puzzle are there, figure out videorecording techniques (it
> was mentioned that closeups are key as distortion is a factor), figure out
> how we're doing audio, etcetera etcetera. Perhaps we can videotape someone
> reading a recent poem and go through all thr troubole of adding 2 minutes
> of video to the site...
> 
> And perhaps Thursday would be a good night to try performance rehrearsals
> for those who want... Songs and staging... Maybe with a trip to Sweet
> Betsy's for dinner...
> 
> > I'm still unsure which we should use.  Which'll be more important for this
> > web site, time or quality?  
> 
> All other factors being equal, I'd steer toward quality over download
> time. I suspect there are a great many factors however.
> 
> And who's actually gonna be designing this
> > page, do ya know? 
> 
> I'm the default, but if you want to work on it that'd be peachy with me.
> 
> William
>