It’s the final day of the SLAM with all teams tearing through their projects to have their videos completed by 6pm. The morning began with a round-up from each team. Issues common to all teams include:

• not enough appropriately licensed CC videos available;
• very little Australian content and no local content on the key theme(s).

Considerations for the next VIDEO SLAM include:

• access to one common platform workstation (with editing, compositing and graphics software) that all teams could use;
• at least one video camera (a DV / handycam would suffice) for all teams to have access to;
• at least one stills camera;
• one audio recording device (preferably HD or equivalent);
• flash memory or common store hard disk accessible via a local network;
• fast wireless (ethernet is great, if cabling can be safely taped down).

As we’re dealing with such tight time-frames technology that speeds up processes such as data transfer, encoding, etc, would be very useful to have on hand. This may include:

• HD or flash memory video;
• HD or flash memory audio;
• flash memory digital stills.

Elliott provided an overview of Australian defamation laws. A Defamation Guide is available on the wiki.

MX magazine sent a photographer for a story they’re publishing in todays edition and Simeon got Horse Bazaar’s wireless Video Unit #1 up and running.