A Successful International Conference Call - A Brief Insight

Are you planning to interact with persons located at different geographical locations of the world at the comfort of home? International Conference Call can make your plan come true in a cost effective way. This type of call is just a phone call that engages a group of people who dial into a conference channel that is hosted by the call conferencing service provider. As a communicator, on behalf of any multinational company, you can make effective communication with customers & colleagues all over the globe through this system. You can also get in touch with your far located friend or relatives through these types of conference calls. International conferencing systems are great to trim down the travelling expenses and overcoming various constraints. Anybody can make good use of this teleconferencing system even when they are in a car, at home, in the office or other places.

How the Conference Call System Works

The procedures of International conferencing system start in a very simple manner; Such as-

· Conference Call Access Number: In this procedure, the international participants need unique access numbers to escape from paying expensive international call rates. You may get an international toll-free number, to gain entry into the conference, when you go to any larger conference call services provider.

· Entering the Access Code: The individual participants of the conference must enter the access code or PIN for entering into the said conference.

· Start the Conference: once the validation of the specific access code or identification number is supplied by the service provider, a person can start your conversation.

Accessories for an International Conference Call

International Conferencing looks for some attachments for its operational measures. Namely-

· Telephone Line: One must have a proper connection to send and receive the vocal communication from all the people linked to such process.

· Headphones: The headset is another essential thing of the conference call system by which you can listen to others, attached to you, without engaging your hands with a telephone receiver or so.

· Microphone: Microphone plays also a major role in this type of communication. The microphone attached to your system capture your voice frequency and sends it electronically through the telephone line.

Things to be considered while hosting Calls

A few things need to be considered before making the call. Those include:

· Be aware of the locations of specific participants: Always consider the location along with the date and time of the specific participant. Note that, a conference held in afternoon in your country may match with the sleeping time of any participant of a far located country.

· Nearby conference call service is preferred: It is important to have a local hosting service so that your guest can avail the service easily while staying connected. Well, having a local service ensure you stay connected while the service is in operation.

· Always go for a recording: It is necessary that all the registered participants get a recorded copy of the teleconferencing call. Although, this won't work that much effective in highly participatory call but will work productive in most conference calls.

Hope Dever has been associated to International Conference Call Service Company for long years and believes that there is nothing so powerful than teleconferencing. He thinks that you have to recognize the accurate measures prior to embracing an international teleconferencing.

Original article

International Corporate Video

"We need a video to show at a conference next month" said the voice on the 'phone, "we would like it to feature some of our overseas customers, preferably in China". The caller went on to list some of the other requirements of the video: it must feature the London sales office, the Midland factory and warehouse, as well as the R&D department and the Technical Centre where professional customers learn how to get the very best out of the company's products.

On the face of it this was a tall order with just four weeks to turn it around, including research, storyboard, script, shooting, graphics, editing and burning to a Blu-ray disc for the conference. The task was not made any easier when the creative team came up with the idea of shots of multiple low impact car crashes. The client produces fillers for the auto refinisher trade so we wanted to show how demand for these products is increasing as cities throughout the world become congested with more and more traffic - and the low impact collisions which often result.

In fact the tight schedule was made possible because of the "can do" attitude standard throughout the industry. With just a few emails and phone calls, filming was arranged in a customer's bodyshop in Shanghai, footage obtained of Paris, New York, Cape Town and Moscow. Film of car crashes was viewed, selected, downloaded and licensed, graphics were produced and filming was scheduled at the client's factory. How do you set about finding a film crew in Shanghai when you don't speak a word of Wu or Mandarin? Google provided plenty of offers, of course, but how do you sort out the best offer? And how can you be sure you are not going to be stung? The solution appeared in the form of a company in California, USA with crew contacts in China. By paying with AMEX and talking on Skype we could be fairly sure we would get what we needed - and we did. Although it would have been technically possible to transfer the "rushes" over the internet, broadband speeds would still make a tedious task. However the rushes fitted onto a tiny USB fob and could be sent easily by international courier with the minimum of delay.

It's a sad fact that the moment you take a camera into a factory and point it at a production line, the whole lot will grind to a halt. This is probably something to do with film crews wanting safety guards removed and glass doors held open to get better shots. Or else it's the demand for a greater product concentration on the line, or perhaps operators are distracted by the crew's equipment and lights. On this occasion the factory management were ahead of the game, they had shut down two lines specifically for our visit so that none of these things could happen. Instead we were given complete freedom to put our camera where we wished and to orchestrate the line to get the shots we needed. Not only were we able to cover more sequences in the short time available but the planned shut down of the lines was much less wasteful than the kind of breakdown which sometimes occurs. Normally, the area where we were filming would be a fire hazard and the use of lights would be prohibited. However, by running the line just for our benefit we could light the shots properly.

The film was completed with two days to spare and although the speed and ease of modern communication, digital filming and video editing helped a lot, it was the high standard and excellence of service to be found in the film and television industry worldwide which really made it possible. The resulting corporate video production can be viewed on the Just Film website.

Chris Pettit is a Partner in Just Film, a video production near London in the UK. Just Film is a corporate video company specialising in films for charities and not-for profit organisations. There are many example video clips on the company website.

The rationale of the company is to focus on issues of social justice and the website blog contains many articles about social issues, activism and video production.

Visit the website at http://www.justfilm.co.uk/

Original article