BRIAN GRADY: Hi.
My name is Brian Grady.
And I'd like to welcome you all here to the very first Silicon
Valley Video Producers meetup.
AUDIENCE: Woo!
BRIAN GRADY: Yeah.
[APPLAUSE]
Yeah.
Thank you very much for coming.
We're all really excited about this.
When I say "we," I mean the group
of people that I work with and my mom, and my wife.
But I'm excited about it personally,
because to tell you the truth, I'm
not a Silicon Valley native.
I just fell in here two years ago to work at Google
and produce video for the Google Developer Studio.
And we have a YouTube channel.
I'll tell you more about that in a little bit.
But I'm excited because yeah, I want to learn about 360 Video.
But I also want to meet a lot of people
in the area that do stuff that I do,
and do stuff like that I do, and do stuff better than I do.
And so I think maybe you guys are all here.
I'm also really, really glad-- I'm looking around the room,
and I'm really glad that we have a great range of diversity
in the room.
So I think we should all get a hand for that.
[APPLAUSE]
Yeah, thank you.
Thank you.
So let's get the show on the road.
Who are we?
And I say "we"-- I mean us, because we're a community,
and that's what we're here to build.
We're anyone who works in video production in Silicon Valley.
Right?
Do we work in video production?
And we want to be inclusive all the way
to the top, San Francisco, and we want to include East Bay.
If we can get people down from East Bay, we'd be very happy.
Anybody come down from the East Bay?
[CHEERS]
Oh, yeah!
I live in Emeryville.
So thank you for coming.
And I think we all work in a wide variety
of formats and techniques.
And I think it's great when we get together and sort
of share ideas and mix it up.
It's probably a lot of us, because of where we are,
we have tech industry clients.
Anybody have tech industry clients here?
A few people.
OK.
AUDIENCE: I am one.
BRIAN GRADY: You are one.
I'll give you my card.
No.
Everybody give him their card.
Yes.
And even though we're in Silicon Valley,
I'm sure that we have a wide range of different sorts
of programs that we create.
And so I'm hoping that we have people from these four and more
markets.
Who am I?
I'm Brian Grady.
I'm a video producer.
I'm the creative director at Google Developer Studio.
And what do we do?
We're in the Scalable Developer Outreach team.
And what that is is we are reaching out to developers
all over the world in massive numbers,
educating them, and inspiring them
to get their shit right on the Google Developer Platform.
And they need some help.
So we provide that.
There are a lot of different-- let's
say we have a diverse audience of people that are interested
and who have never done it.
We have people that they have some ideas,
but they're maybe not developers,
but they want to become developers.
Then we have really solid developers.
And we have Steve [? Joffe ?] in the back of the room here.
Thank you, Steve, for coming.
We have people that are very far up the curve that are working
in startups and partners.
And they need help with developing software.
And that's what the guys that we put on camera, that's
what they do.
So check out our YouTube channel.
Does anybody want to see a little taste of what we do?
AUDIENCE: Yeah, sure.
AUDIENCE: Of course.
[VIDEO PLAYBACK]
[MUSIC PLAYING]
-The amount of content that's been created has exploded.
-That's exciting.
-And they'll broadcast that information 1 to 10 times
a second.
-We need to make sure that this data gets
into the hands of as many people as possible.
-And here's where you developers come in.
-The app universe is enormous.
-Your life as a developer can be easier
and more successful by taking advantage of our guidance.
-So you can make decisions based on concrete data.
-With this one weird trick.
[MOANING]
-That's nuts.
-Every single release has new stuff that you can talk about.
And in the process of that, you may
forget your personal security.
[DING]
-The best practices are important,
and we really thought them through.
-Let's see this in action.
-Can we roll that video?
[BRAKES SCREECH]
[CHICKEN SCREECHES]
-Guilty.
-And that's it.
-Join us.
-We can't wait to see what you build.
-Thank you for watching.
-Thank you.
[MUSIC PLAYING]
[END PLAYBACK]
You see a couple of our other shows.
We built a couple of, I think, pretty impressive--
let's kill this real quick-- impressive brands.
So I said we have a diverse audience.
We have diverse work.
We saw there's a show I do called "Coffee with a Googler."
That's just two people sitting down,
talking about what it's like to work at Google
and what they work on.
All those people that you saw in front of their slide
shows, we call those "Dev Bytes."
And those are quick, targeted little pieces of information
that developers need to get their job done.
And if you notice the kiosks around here,
you'll see more examples of our work there.
And you should check out the page.
Our team.
Team lead is Jamie Baughman.
Production-- myself, Liza Patnoe, and Nilesh Bell-Gorsia
are the production leads.
Nilesh is in London.
Our post-production leader is Gabe Pannel.
Program management is done by Daniel Pham.
And we have an army of producers-- sorry,
production teams and post-production people that
really make everything work.
Like you guys all know that it's not the names on here
that do all the work, right?
It's the other guys in the studio.
So anyway, we have three channels-- Google Developers,
Android Developers, and Chrome Developers.
And I would encourage you, if you
know any developers, to please introduce them
to the channel for us.
Here's tonight's agenda.
And we sort of switched it up from the original announcement,
but what we're going to do is have a colleague of ours, Neil,
come up and give us a little inspirational talk
about where we are with 360 and where's the potential.
Then we have our talk from Anjali Wheeler,
who we are very glad came to us from YouTube to show us
how to implement 360 Video.
We're going to talk about Jump with Todd Shaiman.
We'll take a little break.
Then we're going to hear from Stephen Fromkin, who
is a producer at 360Heros.
And he's going to show us what they do.
Then we're going to do a Q&A panel.
And we'll have a little raffle.
We have some awesome prizes.
And one thing I've been wanting to say for a while
is we have a gift for everybody.
[CHEERS]
[APPLAUSE]
Who doesn't have Cardboard?
Who needs Cardboard?
[LAUGHTER]
AUDIENCE: Yeah!
BRIAN GRADY: OK, you guys all get Cardboard.
[CHEERS]
And the rest of you, you get Cardboard, too!
That's awesome.
Thank you.
All right.
So on your way out, grab a Cardboard.
You know what Cardboard is?
OK, good.
Excellent.
We also have wonderful raffle tickets
that you have to stay till the end.
We have a GoPro that we're going to give away.
AUDIENCE: Oh, snap.
AUDIENCE: 360 [INAUDIBLE]?
BRIAN GRADY: Not the 360, I'm sorry.
Just the one [? GoPro. ?] But if you get five more,
then you can make the rig.
All right.
So Google Developer Studio is sponsoring the evening.
And if anybody here would like to get
involved in the sponsorship, it might be pretty interesting.
If you have any suggestions for a next meetup
or one in the future, I already have one set up for October
pretty much.
But please do contact me if you have any questions
or suggestions.
And we're back at the agenda.
That's not nice.
Actually, this is the next meetup.
I wanted to let you know that Suny Behar is a director,
cinematographer, and educator.
He ran a program for us down at the Red Studios in LA
a couple of months ago.
We had a great time.
Very knowledgeable, great speaker.
So he's going to be at the next meetup October 1.
[MUSIC PLAYING]