Capture footage at the Roku’s Ads Manager public launch event in New York City on September 18th, and quickly deliver a hard drive to the Roku team to help them celebrate the launch of this new ad service offering.
To kickoff the launch of a new offering for marketers, Roku Ads Manager will be hosting a kickoff event at the Classic Car Club Manhattan in New York City on Wednesday, September 18th from 1-4pm, where there will be a number of live presentations. Roku is looking for an agile, local film crew that can capture both video and audio for a particular series of panels and fireside chats at this event. After the event, all of the raw assets will need to be handed off to Roku and their editing team, so no post-production will be needed here.
All of these presentations that Roku wants to capture will take place on the same day, and at the same location, and they will run back to back over the course of 3-4 hours. We'll need each event to be covered with a few different camera angles, so you'll need a two camera set-up. You'll only be responsible for capturing the speakers and presenters themselves, and you should avoid including any of the crowds as much as possible. Around the events, you should plan to capture some B-roll of the event venue (without featuring the public), as well as some footage of the speakers interacting with people outside of the main presentation.
You may need to hang filming notices to act as a crowd releases, and these will be provided by Roku, but you won't need to obtain individual releases from the panel participants. Although you're not responsible for any post-production, you should know that the content will likely be used for social assets later on, and therefore should be captured so that it can be utilized in both 16x9 and 9x16 formats. You could achieve this through maintaining center framing, and/or even having dedicated cameras for each aspect ratio. For audio durign presentations, Roku can patch you into the sound board provided by their AV vendor. Immediately following the event, you'll need to deliver the assets to our post team. While a digital delivery is preferred, we recognize that the file size may be too large for that to be practical. In the case of shipping a hard-drive, we'd need to receive that as soon as possible, and no later than the Friday morning following the event.
For your pitch, you should focus on your general approach to physical production, your proposed camera setup(s) to capture multiple angles (i.e. wide, close-up/follow, and audience view), your audio capture preferences (i.e. patching into the sound board or providing your own mics), and whatever team you'd put together to make it all happen.
We're expecting production to be run by a more local team, so no additional travel budget will be provided. For any questions or other project updates, check out the Project Forum.
DELIVERABLES: A hard-drive with all raw video footage and audio captured at the event.
EXPECTED TIMELINE: HERE
EXPOSURE: We expect content that's created from your footage will be used on the platforms below.
EXECUTIONAL MANDATORIES:
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ASSET DELIVERY REQUIREMENTS & RESOURCES: You must also provide all raw files associated with the project, and are responsible for any costs associated with the hard drive and shipping.
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