As a part of the production team, I was responsible for finding a suitable streaming option for the switch to an online film festival. Never having streaming anything before, I did some research and I initially settled on YouTube. I found that YouTube was the most user-friendly platform in terms of how we wanted the festival to run as we wanted to prioritise a live chat.
During the testing process however, we ran into a copyright issue with one of the films meaning we needed to find another platform that could cater to us. As a group, we settled on Twitch as it was the most similar to YouTube and it also ran off of the same Open Broadcast Software we were using to coordinate the stream.
As the actual festival was running however, our stream was taken down from Twitch, so we had to move the stream back to YouTube, and then back to Twitch to play the film that wasn’t able to be played on YouTube. Having done tests runs of MOFF definitely saved a lot of stress as when the stream when down on Twitch, we had the back up on YouTube ready to go, making the transition a lot smoother than it could’ve been.
MOFF Twitch:
https://www.twitch.tv/moverlookedff
MOFF YouTube: