Kingstech Posted March 31, 2011 Share Posted March 31, 2011 Good evening, Right at our school we have been told we are to do a strictly come dancing style dance competition, the person who happens to be a Dance teacher and knows nothing about the technical side of stuff. We have a limited budget and need ideas on what to do for this. We have to be able to have a voting system for the general public to vote for as well as being rigged in to a judging panel, although the judges and public can be added together later. We need ideas on how we can create a voting system. We originally had the idea of using a few laptops with software which has been made by a technician at our school. but this doesnt seem ok due to the fact that it would be a nightmare to get everyone out of there seats and vote and then get back to their seats. another option was to get 14 orange free sims and put them in 14 phones and count the votes on the phones. we thought this wouldnt work due to networks being unreliable as a back log may occur or might not get sent through properly. The basic option was to give everyone a slip and get them to write the names on a piece of paper and count them up at the end. Does anyone have any options which could work in a hall environment and be relatively cheap. A speedy response would be good as we are doing it next thursday and would like the tech in place before hand. Cheers Callum Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stutwo Posted March 31, 2011 Share Posted March 31, 2011 How about a clapometer? someone with a db meter and a projector to flash up a corresponding "score"? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tolley1466 Posted March 31, 2011 Share Posted March 31, 2011 Could you not have a short interval after all the acts for voting? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J Pearce Posted March 31, 2011 Share Posted March 31, 2011 Or an act to fill the hole. Local artist? School orchestra/jazz band? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TomHoward Posted March 31, 2011 Share Posted March 31, 2011 Hold up a coloured card? Walk through the correct door with someone with a clicker counter? Put a plastic token in the appropriate bucket? With the tokens in the buckets you could just weigh them instead of counting them as well with an accurate balance from the science dept - quick and easy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andrew C Posted April 1, 2011 Share Posted April 1, 2011 There is technology available (hire?) for counting text votes. Been discussed here before; have a play with the search function. That said, a clapometer would be easiest! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paulears Posted April 1, 2011 Share Posted April 1, 2011 You have a school week (as in not a 'real' week) you probably have no budget - so even the simplest systems are going to be too expensive for a one-off, even if you hire. Frankly, the clapometer is the best bet - and you have two options. First is to get one of the physics departments big meters, and cheat - because a real meter, or even the lab one connected to the audio output via a rectifier to give DC isn't very linear - it will spend most time hovering near the full range end - You just control it from a variable bench power supply and mimic the clapping and whooping, and point a video camera at the meter and stuff it through a projector. You will have to deal with the cheating claims. Or if you want even easier, do a real microphone and point the camera at the mixer and do it for real. Forget buttons, sim cards and cleverness - totally pointless and for a total time of maybe 5 minutes, vastly out of proportion, cost wise. Clapping is instant and everyone can see - and if they want to, cheer louder! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rossmck Posted April 1, 2011 Share Posted April 1, 2011 I (through my "real" job) provided a live text voting thing for a production of EuroBeat recently - really simple set up that at some point I should try and 'productise' ... In it's current form it just presented the data on a web page that the video guy read and used to populate the slides used later to display the results but it could be easily adapted to do some sort of live chart if you wanted to display it using a projector or something Let me know if you want to go down the text message route... sure I can sort something out for a fellow blue-roomer... PM me :-) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cedd Posted April 1, 2011 Share Posted April 1, 2011 We do a "Strictly" style event as a fundraiser for the local theatre company. Voting's dead easy - for the knockout round, all the couples dance and the judges give comments/feedback. Once they've all danced once, on each table there's simply a slip of paper where people make their choice. These are collected in while the support act are on. We don't let the judges have a say at this point.Then you've got a choice, either do a dance off (but for goodness sake, only do one! The audience don't want to see the same routine performed 4 or 5 times) and get the votes from the tables again, or let the judges have the say for the final winner. A local youth talent show just does texting for voting. Everyone seems pretty happy to do it, and the counting team just have to make sure everyone only votes once by checking the sender's numbers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
c.cam108 Posted April 1, 2011 Share Posted April 1, 2011 the counting team just have to make sure everyone only votes once by checking the sender's numbers.If you get them to text a real mobile with conversation view then it's even easier - just check the conversations with more than one message. (iPhone does this, and Blackberry too I think) Depending on the size of the audience, this could be your easiest bet - just manually count the texts. Colin C Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
themadhippy Posted April 1, 2011 Share Posted April 1, 2011 Forget text messages,not everybody carrys there phone 24/7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rossmck Posted April 1, 2011 Share Posted April 1, 2011 the counting team just have to make sure everyone only votes once by checking the sender's numbers.If you get them to text a real mobile with conversation view then it's even easier - just check the conversations with more than one message. (iPhone does this, and Blackberry too I think) Depending on the size of the audience, this could be your easiest bet - just manually count the texts. Interestingly the company that did Eurobeat actually ASKED for me to count multiple votes from a single number - and the audience (particularly of a show like eurobeat) get a little carried away... in a 200(ish) seater auditorium we were routinely getting 400+ votes per night. Theirs was a bit of a custom arrangement specific for eurobeat mimicking the eurovision voting scheme so it required a bit more than just a single word to vote for (needed to know the country you were voting FROM too) and the interface calculated the number of points for each country as a result of the votes rather than simply counting votes. It's still online at http://spot.ossiantelecom.co.uk/eurobeat/ and a different view at http://spot.ossiantelecom.co.uk/eurobeat/old.php which shows the actual vote counts if anyone wants to poke at it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steve@soundbp.com Posted April 15, 2012 Share Posted April 15, 2012 It sounds ilke you require an Audience voting systems ?Quite simply they work by a question comes up on screen and there is a choose of answers. People can vote on keypads what answer/vote they want. The system is based on MS powerpoint so its as easy as creating a powerpoint slide! The keypads work on RF so are very reliable and have a range of 200m from the receiver. The receiver is a USB dongle. The software is a powerpoint plug in. We own a system ourselves and offer engineered hire. But you can quite easily operating the system yourself and there are a number of different companies besides ourselves who offer them.Take a look on our website: http://www.soundbp.com/audio-visual-equipment-hire/audience-response-system-hire/ for details and also see our blog which has a guide on how our system works. Hope that helps.Steve Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
beware Posted April 15, 2012 Share Posted April 15, 2012 With money, as Steve says, you need Turning Point. With less money, coloured cards held over head to a camera in the grid. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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