Functionality
The various components of the auditorium equipment allow us to perform three basic
functions.
First, we have tremendous flexibility in microphone configurations. Our nine
microphones allow us to support speaker requests for lavalier microphones, almost any
combination of lavaliers and hand-held microphones for panelists, and audience
microphones. We have supported simultaneous use of microphones for speaker panels in
the auditorium and use of wireless microphones in the large classrooms. We can do most
of what we need to do.
Second, we can accommodate most speaker requests for multi-media presentations. We
have a desktop computer with a touch screen, space for a guest laptop, DVD player, VCR
and projector.
Third, we can videotape speakers for our own internal use, and/or provide an audio feed
to the broadcast media.
We have a good system for the money we spent. Nevertheless, we do have some
equipment limitations. In part, this is due to budget limitations. Failure to spend enough
time designing the system, however, also is a significant factor.
For example, we relied on the vendor’s verbal assurances that a single camera would
accommodate all of our videotaping needs. The vendor was wrong. Because we never
got it in writing, the vendor could charge us additional money to fix the problem.
Spending more time on the design phase would have accomplished two things. First, we
would have been in a better position to ask for appropriate written assurances from the
vendors. Second, we would have likely discovered some of the design flaws on own.
This is not to say that we could design a perfect system. There will always be mistakes.
Even so, more time spent on the design phase would have produced a significantly better
system.
In our current configuration, a single person must operate both camera and microphones.
Experience has shown this was a bad idea.
While our equipment limitations are not insignificant, the most serious problem in the
auditorium is the room itself. It has terrible acoustics. The lighting is completely wrong
for videotaping. Both problems significantly affect the product we place in front of the
live audience and the product viewers see on public access cable television. These
problems must be addressed when the auditorium seating is redesigned.
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