Why Should We Use Virtual Graduations™?
This is what we do. Our background in commercial and corporate video production uniquely qualifies us to be your partner in the creation of your graduation. Much like a corporate meeting or conference, the virtual graduation video requires the proper equipment to switch between scenes and edit external content that our client provides. Like many of today’s conferences, our final output has to be optimized for streaming as well. This experience makes us the perfect partner to create your Virtual Graduations™!
How Easy Is This?
Our proprietary user-friendly process, using a customized dropbox for your school, will function as the centralized workflow for collecting all necessary assets. Supporting documentation is also included.
How Do We Ensure the Content is Appropriate?
The school should provide the yearbook/student ID/senior photo for inclusion during the Virtual Graduations™. However, all content will be approved by school administration prior to production including any student submitted photos and/or short video clips.
How Private and Secure are the Virtual Graduations™?
The streaming/broadcasting of your graduation will take place on a secure platform controlled by the school. Virtual Graduations™ only produces the completed content. School may choose to use internal intranet or virtual teaching platform or public platforms like YouTube or School Facebook page with privacy settings turned on so only students, faculty and families with the proper link will have access.
Is One Platform for Streaming Preferred Over Another?
We recommend Facebook Live and we can set-up your Virtual Graduations™ video to begin steaming at a date and time of your choosing. A giant benefit to using Facebook Live is that as the video streams live, your community of students, faculty, family and friends can comment live during the stream. This interactivity will become one of the highlights of your graduation commencement.
Is there any music for the commencement?
Yes! We will add in a soundtrack to play behind the Commencement Roll call. Either a Royalty Free version of the traditional Pomp & Circumstance or any Royalty Free music you would prefer.
Why do you require royalty free music? Can we use current pop music?
Facebook, InstaGram, YouTube and Vimeo have algorithms that prevent many copyright music arrangements from being used on their channels. For Live Streaming, Facebook Live and YouTube are the most popular platforms and both apply their algorithms to livestreams. If popular recordings are used, for any portion of your Virtual Graduations™, there is a high likeliness that your graduation audio will be removed completely from the video by the streaming service.
Why are photo montages limited to 10 minutes or 200 images?
In the interest of time, we are limiting the Photo Montage length to no more than 10 minutes. At 3 seconds per image, 200 images will equal 10 minutes of display time.
Does the Virtual Graduations™ video have any copyright limitations?
No, we will grant you all copyright privileges allowing you to stream and share the virtual graduation as often as you choose to and we will further allow downloading and copying rights for your students and faculty to keep for their own memories.
How long will our Virtual Graduations™ stream last?
If our guidelines are followed, we can keep smaller graduations (150 – 200 students) to between 60-75 minutes. Medium sized classed (300 students) to between 75-90 minutes. Each additional 100 students should add an additional 15-18 minutes to the final production.
How are payments handled?
We require a 50% retainer fee. A project manager from our team will then work with you to create your custom Dropbox workflow and provide you with the tools and information needed to successfully collect the photo and video content required for the virtual graduation. The balance is paid upon approval of the final video.