The One Button Studio is a user-friendly tool for you to use for producing great looking videos with little or no prior experience. It is intended for developing teaching and learning video resources for internal use within the university.

A self-service video recording tool located in the Barry Spicer Media Studio room 260-006A on ground 0 of the Owen Glenn Building. This provides you with an opportunity to focus on the presentation without the concerns around the technology.

The room is equipped fully with lighting, a microphone and black curtains which support the creation of videos with the One Button Studio.

A video camera is set up facing the light board with you behind the glass, but it records the image through a mirror as a projected reflection, so the writing does not appear backwards. (The recorded image of you is a mirror image too, so if you're left-handed you will appear right-handed, and vice versa.)

There are three available modes:

Light board mode: Brighten up your content and engage with students on an entirely new level.

Camera mode: Simply click the button and the camera will begin recording you, and the lights and mic are already and set up to go.

Presentation mode: Screen-casting with options to incorporate video of yourself.

The following video (2.36 mins) will provide you with a brief overview of the features:

The One Button Studio Process

This is a bookable space in the Room Booking System. To book this room, select

Minimum Room Capacity '1'
Campus/Sector /Building 'Sector 200
Description 'The Barry Spicer Media Studio'

If you want to make a video for promotional and/or external use (to be shown on YouTube, for instance, please contact Media Productions.; mediaproductions@auckland.ac.nz

They are able to advise on the best way forward and will be able to help whether you have a budget or not.