“I reckon I could do that”
A question we thought would never be answered. A friend of mine named Joe thought he could handle 100 oysters in 60minutes after someone proposed the idea. Instantly the idea of a live stream sprung to mind. It was something you wouldn’t even imagining happening on a live stream but because its so unique and weird I just had to record it in a public arena.

I wanted to do this the right way, the proper media student way.

I constructed a fully-fledged broadcasting station in my garden; this was not going to be an iPhone to Facebook live stream. I educated myself through various YouTube tutorials on how to setup a Facebook live stream and make it look like a news broadcast. I used OBS which is a free software that allows basic control over a live stream video.

Random notes on it

• I downloaded GIFs, some relating to Oysters, others to vomiting or just odd.
• Put a countdown timer in the application
• Borrowed a monitor from a friend for the large view screen
• Set up my Canon 6D and streamed it into the software to give the audience another angle
• Downloaded uplifting music for the lull periods of the broadcast (curb your enthusiasm theme)
• Scrolling hotline number with question to the audience

This Video gives a quick insight into the behind the scenes of the shoot

Here’s two videos of the broadcast. I wouldn’t recommend watching them the whole way through at all. Maybe just skip though.

The live stream got a great response despite 2fps at times and the stream being cut into 3 videos because of the Internet dropping out. It got 125likes and 2.04k views.
Where the production went smoothly was in the entertainment section. We used multiple props to enhance and humorise the event. The ‘gimp’ gong was one of these special moments when the ‘gimp’ would waiter at Half point and hand Joe another 10 oysters on a silver platter. I’m going to definitely need to utilize costumes in my film

It was a very rewarding experience. I will definitely do more live streams again in the future. Joe successfully completed the challenge FYI