IE 514: Sundance Film Festival
Riad Lemhachheche
(lemhachr @ engr.orst.edu)
|
Sundance Film Festival:
A mobile computing application
Presentation of the festival
- 125 feature-length documentaries
- 60 shorts
- 200,000 attendees
- 2 weeks
- multiple theaters spread across four Utah locations :Ogden, Park City, Salt Lake City, and Sundance
II Challenge
- Schedule management and organization
- Simplify film screening coordination
- Better planning for attendees
III. Current solution
300+ page printed catalog containing- screen schedules
- theater information
- film descriptions
- director biographies
- cast listings and more…
Solution: A Digital Festival Guide with Wireless Mobility
II Partners
- Sundance Film Festival Institute
- Hewlett Packard
- Symbol
- FluxNetworks
III. Solutions : Infrastructure
- End User Equipment
- Client: 500 HP Jornada 568
- Connectivity : 500 Symbol's Wireless Networker™ Compact Flash Card
- Software: FluxNetwork rich-media enabled application
- Infrastructure
- Connectivity: 5 WI-FI (IEEE 802.11b) Access Point / Hotspots
- Server: FluxNetwork Platform Enterprise Edition
500 VIP equipped
IV. Services
- view short feature films
- search for specific information
- look up directory biographies
- film details
- obtain up-to-the-minute information
- " sold out" events
- new short films
- Change in the schedule
- Replace the 300+ pages press kit
V. How it works
- Each of the selected 500 VIP got a HP Jornada 568 and a Compact Flash Wi-Fi Card
- They can synchronize it when next to one of the 5 hotspots of the festival.
- They can watch short feature films from anywhere offline ( while waiting in line/ in the bus)
- They are able to manage their schedules and check for potential schedule conflicts
- They can synchronize to get new trailers and short films
- They can stay connected: check e-mails,…
References
Press releases
Case Study: Wi-Fi Success at the Sundance Film Festival
Symbol Powers Wi-Fi Wireless "Hot Spots" At 2002 Sundance Film ...
2002 Sundance Film Festival Application Brief
Flux Networks Enterprise Solution
Companies
