Author: Inner Ear
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Growing the Value for Music Tourism in Glasgow
Glasgow is a world-renowned music city. The city’s economy benefits from music tourism, but there’s potential to grow this value. In 2017 Inner Ear won a Scottish Enterprise tender to research and write a report with recommendations on how music tourism in Glasgow could be developed. Growing The Value of Music Tourism In Glasgow: Research…
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Evaluation of Live Streaming Activity and its Potential For CHARTS Members
Culture, Heritage and Arts for Argyll and the Isles (or CHARTS) is a creative community and networking organisation, established by Argyll and Bute Council with support from Creative Scotland in 2019. Inner Ear won an Argyll and Bute Council tender to conduct and deliver a suite of services comprising live streaming and technical production management…
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Illuminating Success: How to Choose the Best Video Lights
Whether you’re embarking on a cinematic masterpiece, a captivating web series, or a live-streamed event, the importance of proper lighting cannot be overstated. So, you need to choose the best video lights to make your production shine. While shooting outdoors in natural light is a photographer or videographer’s dream, the real challenge arises when you’re…
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All Jibs & Gimbals? How to Get a Grip on Your Video
When you are filming anything, whether it’s for live streaming or video production, holding the shot steady is essential for a good viewing experience. And that’s hard to do with just your hands; especially with a smartphone. So you need to get a grip on your video. Using some kind of grip can really help.…
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How to Choose the Right Microphone
Whether you are making a short film, creating a web video, live streaming a show or recording a podcast, if you want to record sound, you need a microphone. Working out how to choose the right microphone for the job can be bewildering; there are so many different makes and models available. Use this guide…
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Monetising your live stream
There are a huge range of platforms to choose from where you can make money from the content you create. We’ve listed our favourites below, along with some useful and easy to understand articles full of tips and information.
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12 Video Conferencing Tools for Staying Connected
If you suddenly find yourself working from home or another remote location, you’re going to miss those interactions with other people. Video conferencing tools can help by allowing you to talk face-to-face, even if it is via a screen.
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Photo by Caspar Camille Rubin on Unsplash Simple Live Streaming Kit
So, you’ve decided to start live video streaming. Or you’ve at least started to do your research. As you’ve probably already discovered, choosing equipment can be challenging and time consuming. Let us help. We’ve put together a list of some of our favourites to help you get started. This post is a guide to the cameras,…
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Photo by Tianyi Ma on Unsplash Live Streaming Platforms
You used to have to setup and administer your own streaming servers (way back when we started Radio Magnetic, anyway) but these days there are many choices of platforms to stream to so you can reach your audience. Some of them you will probably know, others you might not.
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Photo by Minh Pham on Unsplash Productivity Tools For Remote Participation
Working from home has its benefits, but also comes with many challenges. How do you communicate effectively with your team so you don’t drown in email? What are the best scheduling tools? How about to collaborative do lists and project management?
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Photo by Austin Chan on Unsplash Remote Participation Inspiration
Are you part of an arts project, heritage organisation, performance company, digital venture or community group? Do you want to find new ways to connect with people during the necessary period of social distancing required by the coronavirus crisis? Browse our catalogue of inspiring examples of remote participation from communities and creatives around the world.
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Mad Men’s Most Significant Musical Moments
Monday marked the end of an era as the finale of ‘Mad Men’ aired, a show known for it’s stylistic use of commercial music, we’ve invited resident music supervisor Amanda, to look back on some of the finest selections from the show.
