Behind the scenes of the ICT Expert Talks

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At the Dutch Microsoft TechDays, my employer introduced ICT Expert Talks: a professional film booth, where we interviewed speakers, attendees and staff. You can find these interviews on YouTube in the ICT Expert Talks channel. In this blogpost, I’ll provide a peak behind the scenes of these interviews, the people involved, technology we used and fun we had.

Joeri Pruys

Creating thirty interviews in two days is no simple feat. Joeri Pruys is a marketeer at OGD and a professional film maker in his spare time. Watch his short films on the website of Roundhay Garden Scene to enjoy his skills and get excited about his full film Habitat. Joeri designed most of the booth and operated the cameras to make sure people were in the perfect picture all the time:

Joep van der Zijden & Raymond Comvalius

Joep van der Zijden is our copywriter at OGD and has lend his voice to the latest radio commercials our company did. My buddy Raymond was involved through the Dutch Networking User Group (NGN). Joep performed most of the one-minute interviews and our landmark interview with David Chappell. Raymond did all the longer and more technical interviews with the speakers.

Joep and Raymond were our interviewers and they both did a fantastic job!

Martijn Vinke

Martijn Vinke is the brains behind the operation and also a marketeer at OGD. He came up with the concept for the ICT Expert Talks and made it all happen. As the proud content owner, we could no longer beat the smile off his face on Day 2…

Technology

From a technology point of view Ivo van der Pas Jr. (also a colleague at OGD) worked the videos, made the cuts and uploaded the files to YouTube. Of course, all the equipment was running Windows.