Demo day and pitch session video production in Istanbul covers hackathon finals, accelerator demo days and investor pitch sessions where a series of founders each get a fixed time slot to present. The format is predictable, which makes it easy to plan around, but it needs a specific camera and audio setup to come out clean per presenter rather than as one long unedited recording.
What a clean demo day recording needs
- Camera on the presenter: a locked wide plus a closer angle for cutting between
- Clean screen capture: the slide deck or live demo pulled directly from the presenter’s laptop, not filmed off a projector
- A lapel or handheld mic per presenter: swapped quickly between slots
- A wide room shot: for judge and audience reaction cutaways
The screen capture is the part organizers most often forget to plan. Filming a projector screen from the audience produces washed-out, low-resolution slides. A direct HDMI or capture card feed from the presenter’s laptop keeps the deck sharp in the final edit.
Why fixed time slots make this easy to crew
Because each founder gets a known time slot, usually three to seven minutes, delivering a clean per-team clip is simple: cut on the slot boundaries, add a title card with the team name, done. This is different from a keynote or panel, where the edit has to find the highlight inside a longer talk.
Deliverables
- Individual pitch recordings, one per presenting team, cleanly cut
- A highlight reel of the full session with the top moments and winner announcement
- Edited photography of each team on stage
- Vertical cuts of standout pitches for social
Teams often want their own clip for their own portfolio or investor updates afterward, so labelling and delivering per-team files rather than one long video saves the organizer from having to cut them apart later. This connects to our broader hackathon video and photo coverage service and the general crypto event media production guide.
Booking a demo day shoot
Send the number of presenting teams and their time slots, and we will confirm the camera and screen capture setup along with delivery timing per team.
