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Up All Night Epic Movie 2

Ivan Kowalenko — Sat, 01 May 2010 04:00:36 +0000

I have been selected to be one of the camera operators for Up All Night‘s “Epic Movie 2,” the second of Up All Night‘s season ending “movie” episodes.

The episode, a departure from UAN’s late-night talk-show style, is a scripted story that is shot mostly from the perspective of the host and co-host as characters behind the scenes. Also, in keeping with UAN’s season, the episode is shot entirely using handheld (specifically the Panasonic HVX200) or shoulder mounted (the Panasonic HPX500) cameras running at 720p.

As of this time, the video is unavailable. It will be displayed, embedded or linked to as soon as it is made available.

Student Government Association’s Meet the Candidates: Live Stream

Ivan Kowalenko — Thu, 08 Apr 2010 02:00:58 +0000

The Rowan University‘s Student Government Association held a Meet The Candidates even for its 2010 election, and as a service to the community, RTN shot the event and streamed it live via the Internet.

Meet the Candidates was RTN’s second live streamed event, following the highly successful Rowan Relief Telethon.
Live video chat by Ustream

RTN’s Rowan Relief Telethon

Ivan Kowalenko — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 18:15:50 +0000

RTN performed its first live web stream, covering the third annual telethon, raising money for wheelchairs for Haiti, following the devastating earthquake.

I was in charge of managing the live stream, as well as social media experience, by promoting the even through Twitter.
Streaming Video by Ustream.TV
Pardon the use of Flash as opposed to HTML5-compatible media. Technical limitations at this time make the reduce the viability MP4/OGV/WebM versions to nil. Standards-compliant video is due to be available by November.

Technical director for Up All Night

Ivan Kowalenko — Sat, 20 Feb 2010 16:07:05 +0000

This semester, I have been selected as the technical director for Up All Night. Technical changes include a move to widescreen (the only RTN show to do so), and shooting all out-of-studio segments in HD, with the intent of distributing them over the campus cable network as letterboxed SD shows, but podcasting them in their full resolution.

A sample of the show will be made available as early as possible.

RTN “Throwback” Promo

Ivan Kowalenko — Sun, 06 Dec 2009 02:11:04 +0000

As part of a challenge to get new members involved in RTN, a contest was set up for members to have some experience shooting their own promotions. The resulting video was one that attempted to showcase RTN’s broad range of positions for students to get involved in, while maintaining a level of kitsch. Video after the jump.

The promotion was shot in HD to teach the new members how to use the new HD camera, HD focus assist, working with P2, and dealing with the challenges of shooting in HD. The intent was to crop the promotion to a 4:3 box for use on the campus’s standard definition cable network. What is presented here is the 16:9 version produced, though the 4:3 cropped version is available in the download section.

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Monroe Memorial

Ivan Kowalenko — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 16:16:06 +0000

This past Friday, RTN covered the Craig Monroe Memorial in the Enyon Ball Room. Craig Monroe was the dean of Communications at Rowan University, and had a long history with a great many collegues across the country. In recognition of that, in partnership with the Rowan University IT department, the memorial service was streamed live.
I was in charge of operating the Tricaster, acting as director, technical director, VTR operator, audio operator, and to an extent, producer. What’s embedded here is the version we streamed live. We also had a third cameraman moving about with an HVX-200A armed with P2 cards to shoot additional footage, which we intend to edit together for any DVD requests we might have.

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Successful testing of a live clock inserted into a video stream

Ivan Kowalenko — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 16:09:58 +0000

We have successfully inserted a live clock shot with a camera from a live video source by washing it through a Panasonic AG-MX70 video mixer and piping that through a Tricaster for the rest of the video.

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The PRSSA Crossfire Debate for 2008

Ivan Kowalenko — Sat, 20 Dec 2008 07:49:44 +0000

The 25th annual PRSSA Crossfire Debate occured this past Wednesday. I served on the crew as combination Technical Director and CG operator.

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Devin’s RTN Promos

Ivan Kowalenko — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 03:36:49 +0000

A fellow RTN member, Devin, expressed an interest in producing a series of short promotional spots for the channel as an opportunity to learn basic digital production. I served as camera operator, and attempted to teach Devin how to record audio and manipulate video. He had his own stylistic twist on the production.

Devin’s concept was simple: present a behind the scenes look at what it is we do at RTN through the eyes of a jilted lover, complete with some disjointed edits and almost nonsensical shots to reflect the narrator’s mental state.

Due to technical issues, the videos are currently unavailable. They will be made available as soon as is possible.