I was working with a team of four to live stream Mizzou's homecoming talent competition. We started set up several days before the competition to make sure everything worked and we had all the equipment we needed and all that technical stuff.
We had three cameras. One in the front left of the auditorium, one in the front right, and one up on the balcony to get the wide shot. Each of these cameras had to run a cord to the back center of the auditorium. This is like over 150 feet of cords strung up the aisles and over the balcony. Then we had to have an ethernet cable which was plugged in somewhere far away, I'm not even sure where.
The first day we set up we just practiced laying down all these cables to make sure they were long enough. The next day we laid them down and taped them all to the floor so they'd be ready to go during the actual live stream, reducing set up time before the show.
Well, after we did all that one of the auditorium tech guys was like, "we need about a foot more of the ethernet cable." So we had to rip up all three cables we had just taped down (the camera on the balcony and right side along with the ethernet) just to extend this one cable by a foot. That was annoying.
And then we had to tape them all back down, AGAIN. That was even more annoying. We got a little bit lazy so the end result was a little bit less then perfect.
The moral of the story: triple and even quadruple check that everything is the way you need it before you make it (semi)permanent.
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