NTTS 2021

Context

We are invited to prepare a “stimulating presentation” that will showcase our ideas and engage the virtual audience, and a pre-recorded video which should be maximum 10 minutes long (hard max). It is not entirely clear if the NTTS presentation itself is just a playback of the pre-recorded video or if it is live.

Decided to adapt the Miro interactive presentation and add voice-over.

Messages

• “Infomercial” approach
• Must engage non-specialists
• Promote ESS open-source communities in conclusion

Storyboard

• Start as a “classical” PowerPoint slide listing the woes of the IT manager (read with dull voice)
• Zoom out: the audience is bored (see PowerPoint poisoning)
• Mauro interupts: “Haven’t you heard about I3S?” (Mauro’s voice until the end, or do we go on with a dialog?)
• Zoom out to a global view of the whole building
• List main contributions of the ESSnet (should ideally resonate with the PP bullet points)
• Each time, zoom to the corresponding part of the building
• At the end, back to the initial room and zoom on a whiteboard with main conclusions

Procedure

• Complete detailed script before Friday 12 (all)
• Jakob records video of animation with voice of IT manager and sends it on Wedenesday
  • We can also generate the IT manager’s voice with Text-to-Speech software
  • Actually it is probably better to record the voice separately
• Mauro does the rest of the voice over

References and resources

• NTTS-2021 programme @ glance is published. The detailed programme will be published in February 2021.
• Cartoonize yourself
• Powerpoint poisoning
• Google Text-to-Speech
• Bank of free photos: https://www.pexels.com/fr-fr/
• Free video editing sofware: http://avidemux.sourceforge.net/

Meetings

January 26

Agreed on messages and storyboard.

Action points:

• List points in the initial PPT -> Jakob and all
• Find reusable images of people, meetings… -> all
• Connect with intern specialist in video -> Franck
  • Intern is unavailable until Feb. 22
• Write to NTTS for clarification -> Franck
  • Done: NTTS presentation is actually playing the video and being there for questions

February 9

Agreed on procedure and deadlines.

Action points:

• Jakob mails with characteristics of his screen recording software and sends a one minute video example
• Mauro tests how many words he reads in one minute
  • Done: roughly 100 words or 600 chars by minute
• All to contribute to the script
• Franck to set up additional meeting on Feb. 16