LugRadio Documentary – Don't Listen Alone
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In 2004, four Open Source Software fans from Wolverhampton started an Internet radio show. It ran for four years, had over two million downloads and spawned a string of live conferences. Often imitated, never bettered, this is the story of LugRadio. You can watch “Don’t Listen Alone†here: Online at blip.tv – Part One, Part Two Online at youtube You can download “Don’t Listen Alone†from here: Standard quality video (251MB) High quality video (2.6GB) or via bittorrent Windows users will probably need to install VLC to watch the downloaded video. Thanks to neuro for providing the torrent and eduardoc for the youtube version.
Who’s Who
Jono Bacon is one of the founding presenters of LugRadio. Most of the episodes of LugRadio were recorded in the make-shift studio at his house in Wolverhampton. He was responsible for mixing and editing the episodes of LugRadio. Stuart Langridge is one of the founding presenters of LugRadio. He was the only other presenter to stay with the show from start to finish. Chris Procter joined the LugRadio presenter line-up for season five, having been in charge of the crew for the LugRadio Live conferences. Adam Sweet joined the LugRadio team as a full-time presenter towards the end of the fourth season, having been a guest presenter in earlier seasons. Ade Bradshaw joined LugRadio as a presenter at the beginning of season two and left at the end of season four. Known for his love of RedHat and Fedora and his shiny bald head. Matt Revell is one of the founding presenters of LugRadio. He left the show during season four to concentrate on other projects. Tony Whitmore started listening to LugRadio half way through the first season and has attended every LugRadio Live event. He conducted the interviews and operated the camera a lot. He also wrote, edited and…
Behind the scenes
“Don’t Listen Alone†has its genesis in 2007 when Jono suggested I follow the “four large gents†around behind-the-scenes at that year’s LugRadio Live event. The plan was to record what the weekend is like for the presenters. I was pleased but a little taken-aback to be asked to do this. If it’s not apparent enough already, I’d never attempted a project like this before, though I’d been involved in the AV crew at LugRadio Live since 2006. I’d never made a documentary, never tried to tell a story through video. Mostly I’d videoed talks at conferences, which is a lot easier: The content is someone else’s responsibility, you just have the technical task of capturing it on camera. There wasn’t really enough useful footage from LugRadio Live 2007 to tell a story worthy of release, so what Laura and I shot that weekend ended up in the trailer for LugRadio Live 2008 USA. The gents asked me to fly out to LugRadio Live 2008 USA with them and, again, video the trip for posterity. Oh, and to run the crew for the weekend too! Travelling to the US to host an event was such a big thing for the…
Technical Details
The documentary was almost entirely shot on Digital Video (DV) in widescreen PAL. Some footage from LugRadio Live USA 2008 was provided by the videographer for the event in 4:3 NTSC on DVD. A few seconds of footage from LugRadio Live 2007 was used, shot on 4:3 DV PAL. Most of the documentary was shot on Sony PDX-10 cameras, including all the interviews. An off-board directional microphone was used, along with a variety of Manfrotto and other tripods. The interviews were all single camera setups, conducted without additional support to operate the camera or audio equipment. Other Sony and Panasonic DV cameras were used for multi-camera shoots at the LugRadio Live events. Some photos were sourced from the LugRadio community and presenters. Others were taken during the LugRadio Live USA 2008 trip on a Canon EOS 350D with a 28-135mm IS EF-S lens. The documentary was produced using Free and Open Source Software running on Ubuntu Linux. DV footage was captured using Kino and edited in kdenlive, with various effects applied within that application. The documentary was produced in segments, with the audio from each track in each segment exported separately for mixing. The audio was mixed in Ardour using…
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