February 23, 2009
Three solid days of “Tech Treat”.
How is the Tech Retreat like (and unlike) a location shoot? Why does
New York’s Metropolitan Opera put ten minutes of solid white at the
tail end of each live HD cinemacast?
The Hollywood Post Alliance 2009 Tech Retreat commenced at 2pm on 17 February 2009, the USA’s analog shutoff day—whoops, its former
analog shutoff day. It then ran for about 72 hours (with minor
time-outs for sleeping) of conference proceedings, technology demos,
roundtables, and (in a break with tradition) bowling (instead of
softball).
The Tech Retreat is very much like a location shoot in that one
travels to a distant city (Palm Springs), has early call times
(7:30am), and endures exciting but exhausting 12 to 14 hour days.
It is unlike most shoots in that the craft services are over the top
(internal catering by the Westin resort where the Tech Retreat was
held; with all due respect to excellent craft services folks
everywhere, where else does the dessert menu feature raspberry
chocolate tamales?), and those long days are spent mostly sitting and
taking notes: the result is that participants stagger home not only
with full brains but with full bellies, too.
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