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[sebberry]

Looks like they're trying something new this year?

 

Parade before the Centennial Square light-up?

 

Island Farms Santa Light Parade

Saturday, November 26, 2016
at 5:45 p.m. 
Along Government Street
(from Belleville to Fisgard Streets)

Begin the holiday season in Victoria with the magical Island Farms Santa Light Parade! Enjoy festive floats, bands, entertainment and lots of fun for the entire family!

Join us afterwards at Centennial Square for refreshments from Island Farms with Santa and watch thousands of LED lights switch on at 7:30 p.m. at the 9th Annual Christmas Tree Light-Up.

Remember to bring a donation for the Mustard Seed Food Bank!

 

http://www.victoria....y-at-545pm.html

[VicHockeyFan]

It'll also be live-streamed on Victoria Buzz on Facebook, as well as over most of my Facebook network, plus YouTube, with Dana Hutchings as host.  Roll.Focus is producing it with 3 or more cameras.

[Bingo]

It'll also be live-streamed on Victoria Buzz on Facebook, as well as over most of my Facebook network, plus YouTube, with Dana Hutchings as host.  Roll.Focus is producing it with 3 or more cameras.

 

What would be real cool is if you were IN the Parade live-steaming pictures of the crowd over your Facebook network.  Is VV entering their truck in the parade?

[lanforod]

What would be real cool is if you were IN the Parade live-steaming pictures of the crowd over your Facebook network.  Is VV entering their truck in the parade?

 

Mike should totally drive the Citified Sonic at least. 

[sebberry]

Here's the YouTube livestream link: https://youtu.be/vcaxno1v-00

 

It's not as fuzzy as the Facebook stream.

[Gary H]

That's actually a great quality stream, it's not fuzzy unless the camera occasionally goes out of focus - it is night after all.  

[sebberry]

The YouTube stream resolution is certainly higher than Facebook's, at least on my system. 

 

Hashtagfirstworldproblems.

[spanky123]

Good effort by Victoria Buzz. Too bad there are only 100 people watching the stream.

[sebberry]

Good effort by Victoria Buzz. Too bad there are only 100 people watching the stream.

 

~350 ish watching the Facebook stream.  100 on YouTube.

[sebberry]

Hmm.. no livestream of the Centennial Square light up? 

[spanky123]

^ Ok didn't see the facebook ones. The youtube stream is a lot better and allows you to pause / replay content.

[VicHockeyFan]

Hmm.. no livestream of the Centennial Square light up?

Roll.focus had 4 cameras on lower Government, too hard to move it all up there.

[sebberry]

Backbreaking work carrying around a GoPro  

[sebberry]

I think they did an alright job covering the parade. Live production work isn't easy and it was nice to watch the parade from home this year. 

 

Maybe next year, instead of cutting to commercials they could run them along the bottom where the Facebook messages were shown.  That was my only real complaint with the broadcast. 

 

Nice to see Dana hosting the show.

 

CHEK was taking some heat on their Facebook page for not covering it this year.

[VicHockeyFan]

Backbreaking work carrying around a GoPro

They had rooftop camera locations.

Look. They put a professional production together that rivals the two local TV stations both of whom choose to skip the event.

[sebberry]

CTV barely bothered to put lights on their float...

[North Shore]

Went downtown with the boss and kids to watch.  Man, did it drag oonnn...  

I like the bands, the dance groups and the community organizations, but I began to get a little annoyed with the commercial ads - is Joe's Drycleaning really a part of the parade, even if his van is festooned with multi-coloured lights? I noticed that a lot of people around us left without seeing Santa when it started to rain harder around 6:30..

[spanky123]

They had rooftop camera locations.

Look. They put a professional production together that rivals the two local TV stations both of whom choose to skip the event.

 

It was a very good production, certainly rivaled anything that Chek has done in the past

[VicHockeyFan]

It was a very good production, certainly rivaled anything that Chek has done in the past

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vcaxno1v-00&t=1554s

[sebberry]

is Joe's Drycleaning really a part of the parade, even if his van is festooned with multi-coloured lights?

 

Family was sick last night so we didn't go see the parade. I usually go just for the lights, that's what makes the truck parade so great.  No bagpipes and cartwheels, just big noisy trucks with lots of lights.